surgical career and aspirations for the future

1. surgical career and aspirations for
the future
Mr Sajid Malik

2. •How to select a career pathway
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Current pressure to pick a pathway
• Competition
• Requirements
• Non-optimized rotations/years/jobs

3. •Decision is made on many factors
Difficulty to get on program
Benefits/difficulties on the program
Work/life/difficulties as a consultant
Balancing own priorities in life vs sacrifices needed to pursue career pathway
Perspective changes based on your experiences, current needs
What is the most boring, worst, common pathology you have to deal with – can you do
that for the rest of your career?

4. • Why?
• Effort vs Reward
• Where/what do you want to be in 10 years time
• Who do want to be there with
• What do you want to compromise along the way

5. • Who to talk to for more details on surgical training?
• RCS
• Peers
• Registrars
• Fellows
• Junior Consultants
• Senior Consultants

6. 6
• Supporting more future surgeons
There are documents to support training:
Mentoring (support outside any training programme)
Avoiding unconscious bias (how to treat people better)

7. Thank you