Dr Vic

3 Quick Exercises to Establish your Core Values for Career Planning…(08/05/18)

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Another week another post! But the difference this week is that I’m going to start walking you through a 7-step programme to develop your personal career plan. I briefly introduced you to this programme a couple of weeks back (24/04/18). The programme takes you from a state of not having a long-term game plan, where … Read more

Getting into Med School as a Second Career- A journey into primary care in your mid-to-late 30s…(03/04/18)

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Dr Louise Plumtree is a general practitioner (GP) in the UK, who qualified after a first career in local government and a break as a full-time mum. Here I interview Louise about her experience of getting into medical school later in life with the challenges and rewards that it brings.  Question 1: What were you … Read more

Are you empowered or trapped by your biomedical research education (part 3 of 4)?…(20/03/18)

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Morning badasses! In this penultimate part of the series I explore how researchers can sometimes reach a point of ambivalence towards their academic employment situation. Feelings of failure, shame and a lack of knowledge about how their skill set could be utilised in other employment sectors, leaves many researchers feeling they need to stick it … Read more