Summary:
Doctors often lack the skills needed to give them a competitive edge over their colleagues. Despite being academically gifted they leave medical school after six years ill equipped to attain their own career goals. Management skills that are often the most basic to those working for private companies are left out of their undergraduate training. Some simple tips, strategies and well researched advice will empower doctors to develop their own unique career pathway and help them achieve success in their professional life.

This book for all junior doctors aspiring to senior posts such as hospital consultants or GP partners. It systematically and logically examines the entire career process from start to finish, dispelling common myths and advising doctors on how to break down their career into sections and tackle them one at a time. Planning a career should be like sitting an exam. Each chapter is devoted to one aspect of the career pathway with some areas having multiple chapters, such how to choose the right research area to help you get ahead and how to apply for funding to further your career.

This book helps to answer specific questions such as:

• Exactly what type of questions will come up in my specialist interview?
• Should I pursue an MBA?
• Do I need some formal teaching qualifications?
• Should I take up that Training Fellowship Overseas?
• How do I get funding to pursue a research project and develop pilot data?
• What is pilot data?!

Brimming with sound practical advice, hints, tips with its readily accessible style and approach, this text is an essential purchase for all doctors embarking on their career journeys.

• Gives a thorough briefing in getting the most out of conferences, courses and networking
• How to choose the right research project and get funding
• How to make the best of your ST3 job placement, specialist training and overseas working
• How to use politics to your advantage and management skills for your chosen field
• Contains very practical advice and includes numerous hints, tips, pearls of wisdom

About the Author(s):
Muhunthan Thillai BA MBBS MRCP, Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellow and Honorary Respiratory SpR at Imperial College London

Kaji Sritharan BSc MBBS MRCS, SpR in General Surgery, North West Thames Rotation, London Deanery, Hon Research Fellow in Vascular Surgery at Imperial College, London

Readership:
UK market and overseas doctors interested in pursuing a career in the UK. It would be suitable for senior medical students and all hospital doctors from Foundation Year One right through to the beginn