An A to Z guide to a healthy work/life balance for
doctors, by Retired doctor and Life Coach, Susan Kersley
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If you have elderly parents Age Concern has useful factsheets,
ranging from 'Finding Care Home Accommodation' to
'Retiring Abroad' to 'Disability Living
Allowance'.
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Do you want to find out what other careers you could
pursue?
If so, you'll find useful information and advice
specifically for doctors considering changing career.
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A useful introduction - squeezing everything from clinical
governance and audit to research and publication, from
staff development to interview tips into 74 pages
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Provides both Medical School and Career Application advice and
support
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An enhancement of the BMA Counselling Service, giving
doctors in difficulty the choice of speaking in confidence to
another doctor.
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Provides one-off grants/loans to doctors in distress.
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Confidential counselling service 24 hours a day, available
to BMA members and their families.
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Provides refugee and asylum seeking doctors with a special
package of free benefits as they seek to establish their career
in the UK.
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Your career questions answered online by fellow doctors
through the BMJ Careers Advice Zone.
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Serves over 25,000 British Physicians of Indian Origin
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Provides a range of food factsheets - from food allergies to
probiotics, and healthy packed lunches to the truth about detox
diets.
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A group that helps doctors and dentists in recovery from
substance abuse
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Helps with induction, mentorship and generally provides support
to overseas doctors.
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Providing emergency help to people in most need.If you are a
surgeon or anaesthetist, overseas postings may be available
from one month to two years.
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Provides help for doctors who are, or have been, general
practitioners, and for their dependants. Offers help in
times of poverty, hardship or distress.
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Highlights the career options open to newly qualified GPs -
plus ideas for those already established.
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Information and advice on career options for doctors - both
inside and outside medicine.
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Helpful if you're new to caring. Explains what types of
help are available for carers - including help at home,
day care, aids and equipment, getting a break from caring and
adapting your new home.
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A charity that assists people who are in financial difficulty
by providing free, independent, impartial and realistic advice.
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An organisation providing advice to Journal Editors
on ethical issues with difficult papers.
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A collection of recent articles from BMJ Careers to help you
improve your CV - plus advice on junior doctor, GP and
consultant interviews.
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'The purpose of the medical teacher is to entertain the
students while they take their course..'
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A national childcare charity, working to promote
high quality affordable childcare for all.
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Deaneries provide training, supervision and career
management
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Written by doctors for doctors about their own experiences of
mental illness.
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This network offers a confidential service for doctors who have
mental health problems to access peer support and know they are
not alone.
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A helpline for doctors to talk through whatever concerns them,
quite informally, with a fellow doctor.
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Forum based peer support for doctors.
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Is being good with money more to do with personal psychology
than numbers and figures?
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A website providing online listings of interview skills and
career development courses.
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A collection of recent articles from BMJ Careers. Topics range
from Fraud to Locums, from Litigation to Personal
Support.
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Provides both the big picture and the detail - from peer
review to practical advice on how to choose the right
journal, avoid delays and authorship disputes etc
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Provides a range of support services for single parents -
including an Advice Line, parenting workshops, holidays for
single parents and a chat room.
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Takes the idea that the habit and routines children develop in
their first year of secondary school will stay with them
through their school lives - so aims to help parents get it
right the first time.
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An organisation which provides an independent, confidential,
counselling service.
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A toolkit for those likely to be providing careers
information, advice and guidance to medical students or doctors
at some stage in their career.
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An NHS initiative which sets a model of good human
resource practice for NHS employers.
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A US based website for healthcare professionals aiming to help
one another achieve and maintain sobriety.
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A useful source of vacancies with international humanitarian
agencies, from big household name organisations to smaller
specialist organisations.
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A free online peer-review medical career advisory service,
covering hospitals, specialties and grades throughout the UK.
It works like a tourists' website where visitors rate hotel
rooms, with this site collating doctors' ratings of jobs
and places of work.
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If you're confused or dissatisfied with aspects of your
medical career this may help you work through the reasons and
possible ways forward. Written by a former Associate Dean,
Postgraduate Education and a frequent contributor to BMJ Career
Focus.
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A doctor's journey through seven years of depression -
before successfully returning to her career and
rediscovering the joys of life and her family
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An organisation that provides coaching, mentoring, counselling
and training in communication skills.
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Information and advice on how to survive as a locum
doctor.
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A useful Medical Careers information website, designed to
help doctors understand and consider career and training
options.
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Applies cognitive therapy to try to help couples overcome
misunderstandings, resolve conflicts and solve relationship
problems.
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Register with the Mailing Preference Service if you want to
avoid junk mail
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This book provides overseas doctors with the information they
need to decide whether to seek a medical career in the the UK
and, if so, how to achieve this.
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A user-led self-help charity for people with bipolar
disorder.
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An international humanitarian aid organisation providing
emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more
than 80 countires.If you have 2 years SHO experience, ideally a
Diploma in Tropical Medicine or extensive overseas work
experience,overseas postings may be available.
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Provides professional indemnity cover to medical and dental
practitioners working in the UK.
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Do you want to carry on working in medicine - but not
necessarily in the NHS?
If so, find out more about opportunities in both the UK
and overseas.
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Offers career guidance to doctors.
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Provides medico legal advice, support and indemnity.
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Medical Royal Colleges provide and assist with continuing
medical education.
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Arranges conferences specifically for doctors interested in
exploring alternative career options.
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A charity that promotes the personal and professional
development of women in medicine and women's health issues.
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A home finding, renting, buying or relocation service.
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"Counselling for doctors by doctors" in London area -
practical advice about careers and emotional support if needed,
and if appropriate, access to brief or longer term
psychotherapy.
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Emergency medical relief in up to 20 different countries
at any one time. For Project Medical
Coordinator posts you need at least 2 years relevant post
qualification experience - for Regional Health
Director posts, at least 10 years managing
relief and development programmes.
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Aimed at doctors caught up in the recent rounds of trouble
with training places.
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Struggling with Debt?
Are you a recently qualified doctor with medical student
debts to repay, no free hospital accommodation and reduced
hours of work due to EWTD?
This is just one of a number of scenarios which could mean
you are struggling with debt problems.
If you or a colleague have debt problems or are worried
about your level of debt, the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund has
launched a confidential telephone money advice service for
working doctors.
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Web based information on a wide range of money related issues.
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Information on how to find a registered childminder and the
difference between registered childminders, nannies and au
pairs.
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A free, confidential, independent telephone helpline for people
with debt problems in England, Wales and Scotland.
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Provides support on practice and organisational matters.
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A career development guide, including case histories of doctors
in 30 specialties. Also a useful resource if you're
considering a career change within medicine.
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A useful range of articles of particular interest to overseas
doctors wishing to practise in the UK.
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The first guide to the Foundation Programme written by junior
doctors.
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An organisation set up to enable busy medical professionals to
have a better quality of life by having more leisure time.
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One of the country's leading debt advice agencies with
over 12 years experience in helping people with their debt
problems.
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Support for carers, including caring for older people and
people with mental illness, physical disability or other health
conditions.
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The Psychiatrists' Support Service was launched at the
Royal College of Psychiatrists' Annual General Meeting in
June. It is a confidential support and advice telephone service
for member psychiatrists who find themselves in
professional difficulty.
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The College has established a telephone helpline, which
provides a point of personal contact between surgeons, where
they can discuss issues of concern with a professional
colleague or peer. Besides offering a listening ear, the
helpline acts as an informed signpost to appropriate sources of
advice and help.
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Helps GMC registered doctors and their dependants in
need, if resident in the UK.
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RSA Consulting Limited is a
medical recruitment consultancy whose publications library
provides much useful information about careers in the
pharmaceutical industry.
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To support those suffering from the extemes of stress and
burnout, to provide a safe, confidential haven to explore the
causes and to develop ways of changing lives/situations.
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Supporting doctors and their families who are
suffering from dependency to alcohol and other drugs.
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Explains the medical career structures and pathways and
explores the myths and the reality of working in each main
medical specialty.
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For students, advice workers, money advisers, bursary officers,
student services officers and others who advise students in
England and Wales about student support, benefits and tax
credits.
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Provides information and advice and resources online to
education,support learning, careers and jobsearch,
especially if you have children going to College or
University.
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Helpful advice on how to manage Career- Marriage conflict.
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A medical recruitment consultancy whose website provides
much useful information about careers in the pharmaceutical
industry.
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Aims to help you take control, be flexible, accept reality,
come to like and be fair to yourself, accept change and improve
your relationships with others. The author is Professor of
Counselling at Goldsmith's College, University of
London.
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Gives details of a wide range of funds and other support
available for schoolchildren and students in need, up to and
including first degree level.
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Adapts cognitive therapy to provide concrete things to do if
you suffer from anxiety or depression.
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A useful 'toolkit' which shows mentoring as an
acceptable vehicle in supporting change for all individuals at
various times in their careers.
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A practical handbook, covering 100 countries and both career
and health issues.
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Provides members with legal help and professional indemnity
insurance.
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A useful guide for securing PRHO and SHO posts - from
preparing an effective cv and developing your interview
technique to negotiating salary and terms.
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Helps medical practitioners and or their families who find
themselves in financial hardship - in particular
through educational awards for their children.
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A confidential, occupational health support scheme.
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Understanding your baby, Understanding your one year old,
Understanding your two year old etc
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The UK Insolvency Helpline is a national telephone helpline for
people with debt problems all over the UK. The service is free,
confidential and independent.
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An organisation that provides information and support to anyone
with a hearing loss who is a health professional, is in
training or is considering training to become a health
professional.
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This multi-author book addresses issues concerning
underperformance by doctors due to factors other than clinical
competence.
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An international development agency that works through
volunteers.If you have 2 years SHO experience there are often
medical officer vacancies in local district hospitals. For
experienced GPs, there are sometimes vacancies for family
medicine lecturers;also Higher Specialist Training options for
Specialist Registrars.
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Researches the impact of work on health and family life and
aims to help people regain control over their work load and
working lives.
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Helps children,working parents and carers find a better balance
between responsibilities at home and work.Publications range
from a life planner for working fathers to an employee's
guide to flexible working, from a pro forma Nanny contract to a
guide for working parents caring for a child with disabilities.
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A useful web based source of money saving information and
ideas.
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Life coaching advice for doctors.
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