What I wish I knew - Preparing for and becoming a Consultant (7 Mar 2024)
Drs Helen Liddicoat and Caroline Scally discuss preparing for and becoming a consultant with Dr Hannah Preston.
Dr Helen Liddicoat and Dr Caroline Scally discuss preparing for and becoming a consultant with Dr Hannah Preston, a senior doctor-in-training. They cover searching for and securing a consultant job and reflect on starting out as a new consultant and the 'what I wish I knew'.
Listen from the start until 30:23 for 'Preparing for a Consultant Job' and from 30:23 to the end for 'Becoming a Consultant'.
Dr Helen Liddicoat and Dr Caroline Scally are Co-Chairs of RCPE's Recently Appointed Consultants' Committee (RAC). Dr Liddicoat is a Consultant in Respiratory Medicine in NHS Tayside. Dr Scally is a Consultant Cardiologist in NHS Lothian. Dr Hannah Preston is Co-Chair of RCPE Trainees and Members' Committee (T&MC) and a Renal Registrar in NHS Lothian.
Links
Job Planning - How to do it and why it matters [Consultant Conversations podcast episode]
RCPE's 'Enhance: Mentoring for Medics'
RCPE's Recently Appointed Consultants' Committee (RAC)
Recording date: 16 October 2023
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The edited music used in this podcast, 'Corporate' by ProLuxeStudio (available on SoundCloud), is licensed as CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
This podcast is from the Recently Appointed Consultants' Committee (RAC) of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE).
