Career support
The Academy's Early Careers Working Group is active in addressing the concerns and issues affecting those starting on, or early in, their careers as medical educators. The Group has a programme which is investigating mentoring support schemes and the provision of career case studies.
A research project is ongoing looking at challenges and supportive systems to medical education career progression, in line with the Professional Standards, to develop effective policy for dissemination through the Academy. Esther Sabel, the Project Lead, is coordinating focus groups with early career medical educators from clinical, basic and social sciences backgrounds as well as holding semi structured telephone interviews with experienced leaders in medical education about their career histories and views of what a career in medical education should encompass. The results of the study are expected to be published in mid-2011 and provide guidance to the Council of the Academy on its future programmes of careers support work.
The Academy will be developing a set of Case Studies, showing the various routes by which individuals have become medical educators. These will be available here in due course.
The Academy's Recognising Teaching Excellence workshops address individuals' career and accomplishments as a medical educator. If you are a teacher, researcher or manager who is actively involved in the education of medical students and doctors, and if you care about improving your professional practice and developing your skills as a medical educator, then this course will offer you a constructive, confidential and structured environment in which to reflect on your portfolio of achievements and help prepare you to take the next steps in your career. Many of our current Members and Fellows who have attended these workshops have found them hugely beneficial in the application process. We highly recommend them to all prospective members.
Last updated 19 January 2011