Moving on up: Becoming a Consultant and developing your Consultant career

Friday

24 May

2024

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Overview

Registrations now open!

We are delighted to announce that bookings are now open for a new online course ‘Moving on Up’ which will be of great interest to senior trainees and recently appointed consultants. This new event has been curated by our Recently Appointed Consultants’ Committee.

The morning sessions will help prepare the senior trainees for their step into the role of a consultant and will include the following topics
•   Preparing for application and interview
•   What is a job plan?
•   Panel Discussion - How to get the job you want as a consultant
•   Quality Improvement and achieving work-life and work-work balance

In the afternoon the sessions will focus on career progression within your consultant role. Here will be a choice of sessions to give the attendees a broader understanding about the directions they can take their consultant career. There will be parallel sessions on education, research, management as well as working in other organisations. The webinar will end with a talk about the role of the consultant and working with management.

Our excellent speakers include: Dr Caroline Whitworth, NHS Lothian, Dr David Connell, Dundee, Dr Chris Schofield, NHS Tayside, Dr Sue Pound, NHS Fife and Dr Anna Olsson-Brown, University Hospitals Sussex Foundation Trust.

We are providing options of attending the webinar for a full day or a just the morning or afternoon session. The early bird discount ends Thursday 9 May 2024.

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Programme

Day 1 Friday 24 May 2024

09:25

Welcome and Introductory Remarks

Session 1 - Preparing for application

Chair: Dr Helen Liddicoat, Co-Chair, Recently Appointed Consultants’ Committee

09:30	Application process and medical CV writing Dr Tom Fardon, Consultant Physician in Respiratory & General Internal Medicine and Associate Postgraduate Dean for East Scotland
10:00	Preparing for Consultant interview Dr Peter Currie, Consultant Cardiologist, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee
10:30	What is a job plan? Mr Martyn Ramsay, Regional Secretary (West of Scotland), British Medical Association
11:00	Panel Discussion - How to get the job you want as a consultant Dr Adelina McLeod, Consultant Geriatrician, Newcastle NHS Trust & Committee Member, Recently Appointed Consultants’ Committee, Dr Christina Ryan, Consultant Geriatrician in Royal Alexandra Hospital Paisley, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde & Committee Member, Recently Appointed Consultants’ Committee, Dr Vikki Moffat, Recently Appointed Consultant’ Committee Member
11:30	Break

Session 2 - Quality Improvement and achieving work-life and work-work balance

Chair: Dr Habib Haider, Committee Member, Recently Appointed Consultants’ Committee

12:00	Work-life and work-work balance Dr Anna Olsson-Brown, Consultant in Medical Oncology, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust & Committee Member, Recently Appointed Consultants’ Committee
12:35	Quality Improvement - how to make your job better and improve care for patients Dr Helen Liddicoat, Consultant Physician, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee & Co-Chair, Recently Appointed Consultants’ Committee
13:10	Lunch

Session 3 - Parallel sessions and engaging with clinical management

Chair: Dr Kevin Conroy, Committee Member, Recently Appointed Consultants’ Committee and Dr Caroline Scally, Co-Chair, Recently Appointed Consultants’ Committee

14:00	Parallel Sessions - Portfolio careers and career progression Session 1 - Education Dr Simon Edgar, Director of Medical Education, NHS Lothian Session 2 – Research Dr David Connell, Consultant Physician, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee
14:35	Break
14:40	Parallel Sessions - Portfolio careers and career progression Session 3 – Management/Clinical Lead Dr Chris Schofield, Clinical Director for Elective Medicine, NHS Tayside Session 4 – Being involved with other organisations – Colleges and Specialist Societies Dr Susan Pound, Vice President (Scotland and Northern Ireland), Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
15:15	Understanding responsibilities as a consultant and engaging with Management Dr Caroline Whitworth, Medical Director for Acute Services, NHS Lothian
15:50	Closing Remarks

Fees

Online booking for this event closes on Friday 14 June 2024, which will still allow 7 days to watch the talks on-demand, before the feedback survey closes and the talks are no longer generally available. Some talks will still be available after this date to Fellows and Members - please contact the Symposium Coordinator for further information.

An early bird discount applies until Friday 10 May 2024.

Half day attendance

Morning - Session 1 and 2

Afternoon - Session 2 and 3

Registration fees
	Early Bird fee (until 10.05.24) for online half day	Early Bird fee (until 10.05.24) for online full day	Fee (from 25.04.24) for online half day	Fee (from 25.04.24) for online full day
Non-RCPE Member or Fellow	£120	£210	£130	£220
RCPE Fellow & Collegiate/Associate Members	£75	£145	£85	£155
RCPE Foundation Member, Nurse, AHP, Pharmacist, Physician Associates	£70	£130	£80	£140
RCPE Fellow in low or lower-middle income country, RCPE Student Member	£0	£0	£0	£0
Retired RCPE Fellow, Non-RCPE Student	£10	£10	£20	£20

Long term / other leave – Fellows and Members, please contact the Co-ordinator as some discretion may be available.

Collegiate and Associate Members of the RCPE in clinical research posts may be eligible for funding - please contact the Co-ordinator for further information.

Invoices

If you wish us to invoice an employer/organisation, please contact the Coordinator. Payment via invoice is not available for online booking.

Free places

Unpaid post – Nil if confirmation of status provided – please contact the Co-ordinator.

Refugee doctors – free places are available to refugee doctors who are Associate Members of the College. Associate Membership for refugee doctors is available free of charge. Please visit our website for instructions on how to join, and then apply to the Co-ordinator for your free place.

Cancellation policy

If you have to cancel your place within three days of this event, we regret that we are unable to provide a refund. However, you may nominate someone else to take your place at the discretion of the event co-ordinator.

Further Information

This event is open to all grades of medical, health care and scientific staff and to students. If you are unsure about eligibility, or the correct fee category, please contact the RCPE member of staff responsible for the event (see Fees page).

Please note that on occasion event programmes may be subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances.

Certificates

All relevant events are approved for Continuing Professional Development (CPD). To receive a CPD certificate delegates must have completed the online feedback survey. The survey will close 28 days after the original broadcast of the event, with certificates being issued shortly after this.

Certificates cannot be issued after the survey has closed.

Venue:

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Event Coordinator

Stephanie Hough

Telephone

+ 44 (0)131 247 3687

Email

rac@rcpe.ac.uk