Building A Portfolio: Career progression is tied to your portfolio in the UK. As an International Medical Graduate, understanding that means that you are ready to succeed. What does it take to succeed you might ask and what exactly is your portfolio. Simply put, your portfolio is the evidence that demonstrates what you have got in your cv. There are specific areas that require you to demonstrate efforts and success in areas such as leadership, management, and teaching. The question is, where do you start as an International Medical Graduate? Is it a blank slate, can you use the evidence form your home country or even medical school. Follow us on this journey where we will go through key areas of evidence and show you how you can build a portfolio that puts you in a position to achieve your goal whether that is applying for training, applying for the CESR Route (Portfolio Pathway) or even a consultant job. To inform yourself about how to go about ensuring that you have the right things in your portfolio, join us in this course. Please note that since the recording of this video, the GMC has changed the terminology from CESR pathway to Portfolio pathway. It is however still popularly referred to as the CESR pathway as the.
One of the most challenging parts of the day for most clinical NHS staff is communicating effectively with other staff to get the best outcomes for your patient. There are many reasons why this is challenging but the most important one, is not being able to articulate what you want the other member of the team to do for you. If you have not started in the NHS yet, then you want to take this course to ensure that you are prepared to have these conversations. If you have already started and want to get the best out of your interactions, then you will find this short course is the exact thing you need to confidently discuss your patients when they need intervention from other members of the team.
This course enables participants to develop essential patient management skills that are necessary for identifying and managing the safe care of a patient requiring cardiac catheterisation.
This course provides learners with the knowledge and skills necessary to care for the adult patient requiring High Flow Nasal Oxygen (HFNO).
A comprehensive two days, delivered using a variety of teaching styles, by professionals who manage medical emergencies on a day-to-day basis. A number of the more common presenting conditions are covered providing a structured approach to the pathophysiology, initial assessment and management of the acutely ill medical patient.
This workshop is designed to give those who have to give bad news and broach difficult conversations increased confidence. Participants will leave the workshop with the tools and techniques to prepare for a difficult conversation and ensure that they are supporting patients and relatives through a stressful time in their lives.
Aimed at cardiac professionals to develop their Exercise Tolerance Testing (ETT) skills.
An opportunity to learn about various heart rhythm disturbances, their aetiology, management and treatment strategies.
The course will cover the essential underpinning knowledge to effectively manage the patient throughout the life cycle of the implantable device.
A half day course that looks at the implications of the recent NICE guideline changes to the management of hypertension. The course gives a brief introduction to the pathophysiology of hypertension and the ways in which it is investigated and treated.