Clinical Attachments

We offer different clinical attachments across the UK from General practice, medical, to surgical specialties. You will have the opportunity to observe consultants for a period of one month and get to grips with the UK clinical system.

In these placements you will have the opportunity to ask questions, and observe the daily clinical and non-clinical activities involved. You will have a day induction and subsequent observer led learning where every educational opportunity will be afforded you. You will be given workbooks to guide your individual learning outcomes in each placement.

Clinical Attachments

If your interests or would like clinical attachments feel free to contact us and we will be very happy to facilitate this.

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Interview Workshop

We will run several interview prep sessions as part of the finishing school.

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Medical Interviews in the UK take different forms:

  • Panel interviews
  • Multiple mini interviews(OSCE format)
  • In person or online (post covid environment).
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Some structures and pointers are helpful in answering interview questions, you can use these as a guide to structure your answers to the relevant questions.

  • The Clinical, Academic, Management, Personal (CAMP) structure (for background & motivation questions)
  • The Situation, Task, Action, Result/Reflect (STAR) structure (for questions asking for examples)
  • The Seek info, Patient safety, Initiative, Escalate, Support (SPIES) structure (questions on difficult colleagues.

We offer two types of interview workshops.

  1. One-to-one Interview Coaching: This is a personalised online interview coaching with one of our experts to meet your individual needs and help you secure your next job.
  2. Interview Workshops: This half day monthly group interview workshops are designed to prepare you for any hospital based interviews. You will work in groups. We offer in-person and online sessions depending on demand.

You will learn how to best bring to light your medical background and academic qualifications.

These workshops offers personal portfolio questions with questions such as involvement in courses, publications or research. Be prepared to answer questions on clinical governance and NHS specific issues.

Finally, be prepared to scenario based questions which we will go through in a different section.

Time Commitments : 4 to 6 hours per workshop

Who This is For? All health workers

  • CV
  • Personal Achievements

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Job Avenues

There are different opportunities.

Coming out of medical school there are different avenues for employment

  • Observer Fellowship
  • Foundation Program
  • Foundation Equivalent Program
    • Foundation Equivalent Program Year 1
    • Foundation Equivalent Program Year 2
  • Trust Grade Foundation Year 2
  • Trust Grade Clinical Fellow
  • Research Fellow
  • Clinical teaching Fellow
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To make yourself competitive it is important that:

  1. Look through person specifications of the jobs.
  2. You must meet all Essential Criteria to be considered for short listing.
  3. Meeting the desired criteria maximizes your potential for interview.
  4. Make sure to highlight your extracurricular achievements to show you are a well-rounded candidate.
  5. Highlight your research, teaching, audit and quality improvement skills.
  6. Make sure to have evidence of your teaching with feedback
  7. Recommended Courses:
  8. For the medical specialties, courses such as Advance Life Support (ALS), Simulation and procedural courses

https://medical.hee.nhs.uk/medical-training-recruitment/person-specifications/internal-medicine-training-ct1

  1. For the surgical specialties courses such as Advance Life Support (ALS), Advanced Trauma Life Support(ATLS), START, CCRISP, Relevant courses for specific surgical specialty

https://medical.hee.nhs.uk/medical-training-recruitment/person-specifications/core-surgical-training-ct1

For general medical jobs ask around for different opportunities as most departments are understaffed and very keen to employ you. A lot od job listing can be seen on this website: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/

For national recruitment jobs use the HEE website to point you to the relevant minimum criteria and desired criteria. Application is usually via the Oriel website https://www.oriel.nhs.uk/web/

  1. Be mindful of opening and closing dates for applications which are easily missed.
  2. Applications are usually processed in stages with Long Listing after Initial application and subsequent short listing for interview.
  3. Your progress will be communicated to you via Oriel and to your email.
  4. Importantly Oriel emails can be set to junk infrequently; add the oriel email as a contact to prevent missing any Job Listings.

Meet a Mentor

You will have the opportunity to meet and pick a mentor who can guide you in your chosen field. We will be organising meet and greet events to facilitate a meeting of mentors and mentees.

Your mentors should guide you through the application process, advise you on courses and additional tips to boost your CV, clinical experience and all round experience.

Outside of your designated mentors, the finishing school and its staff will be available to aid you in this process.

To request for a mentor, email: [email protected]

and our team will organise an interview to understand your needs.

Meet a Mentor