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Wednesday 17th March 2010 sees the first Manchester Medical Careers Fair:
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Manchester Medical Careers Fair 2010
Date: Wednesday 17th March 2010
Time: 13:00 - 19:00
Location: Exhibitor stalls - Ground floor, University Place
Speaker events - Lecture Theatre, University Place
Careers sessions - Breakout rooms, University Place
Skills sessions - Breakout rooms, University Place
Admission: FREE (all delegates will also receive a complimentary delegate pack)
AIMS
March 2010 sees MMCS join forces with Manchester Medical Society (www.mms.org.uk) in order to provide medical students and junior doctors with a superb careers development and networking opportunity.
Manchester Medical Careers Fair 2010 has 3 aims:
1. Fresh insight into medical careers.
Teams of representatives from a number of different specialties will engage in a series interactive careers sessions. In every session, delegates will benefit from structured specialty-specific careers guidance, as well as extended informal interaction with the team of representatives. This team will include an eminent consultant, a middle-grade doctor and a junior trainee - all of whom will offer up-to-date information about their specialty as well as personal reflections.
2. Engagement with Manchester’s finest.
Manchester has a fantastic research heritage, and is fortunate to be home to a number of World-renowned clinicians and research specialists. This Fair actively encourages interaction between delegates and invited speakers. We hope this will be a fantastic opportunity for students and junior doctors to learn about the exciting work taking place throughout the North West. We encourage students and junior doctors to seek out opportunities to network. It may be a good way of identifying an SSC or Project Option tutor, and may lead to opportunities to gain experience in audit or research.
3. Skills development.
Thanks to support from The General Medical Council, The North Western Deanery, The University of Manchester Careers service, and a number of clinicians based in Greater Manchester, skills sessions will take place throughout the day, covering a wide variety of topics.
Interactive careers sessions:
1. Medicine
2. Surgery
3. Pathology
4. Anaesthesia
5. Paediatrics
6. Psychiatry
7. Primary care
8. Public Health
9. Imaging
10. Obstetrics and Gynaecology
11. ENT
12. Dermatology
Skills sessions:
1. Career planning
Dr Maire Shelly
2. Application forms
Jane Whitmore, Manchester University Careers Service
3. Applying for a foundation programme
Prof. Paul Baker
4. Applying for an academic foundation programme
Prof. Simon Carly
5. Career transitions
Ella Checkley, Foundation school career lead
6. Getting published, how to improve your chances
TBC
7. Maintaining a portfolio
Dr Shirley Remington, Medical Director at Stockport
8. Careers beyond medicine (taking time out to work abroad)
Dr Tom Wingfield, SpR in Infectious Diseases at North Manchester
9. Working in the NHS: a reality check
Dr Roddis, Wesleyan Medical Sickness
10. Medical Professionalism
James Reason, external relations officer at the GMC
Registration will be available for the Manchester Medical Careers Fair via Medlea (www.medlea.manchester.ac.uk) from Sunday 7th February 2010 starting at 6pm. For Manchester undergraduate students this will be a sign up session. Transport will be provided for Preston-based students if we are notified in advance.
This fair is also open to Foundation Year doctors. The application process is again via Medlea (www.medlea.manchester.ac.uk), using the password ʻcareersfair2010ʼ.
Places are available on a first-come first-served basis and are limited by the size of the lecture theatres in the SCAN Building (University Place). Registration will close when these numbers are reached, but a reserve list will also be formed. Registrants who cannot attend are asked to cancel in advance so that someone wishing to attend can take your place.
Unfortunately this is a one-off event for this academic year and we appreciate that those Year 5 Students away on STEP (electives) on 17 March 2010 will not be able to attend. Apologies for this but all information produced for this event will be made available through various websites soon
after.
If you have any questions or queries, please email us at info@mmcs.org.uk
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