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Unit 5 · 6 lessons

Building your medical career

Training and non-training posts, routes into specialist training, an Irish-style CV, audit, quality improvement (QI) and research, and a realistic 90-day plan.

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Start: Reading a job offer: training and non-training posts, contracts and what to ask
  1. Lesson 1

    Reading a job offer: training and non-training posts, contracts and what to askPaid programme

    How to compare a training post with a non-training (service) post, and how to read a real offer: grade, sites, rota and on-call, supervision, education and the contract itself. Eligibility for training schemes is covered separately.

  2. Lesson 2

    Specialist training in Ireland: eligibility, selection and a realistic planPaid programme

    A practical distinction between working in an SHO post and getting onto a recognised training programme, with the questions to verify before you apply.

  3. Lesson 3

    An Irish-style medical CV: structure, specific entries and honest evidencePaid programme

    A common structure, two fictional before-and-after experience entries with notes on what changed, and how to tailor a CV to a post or a training application. Conventions vary; the application's own instructions come first.

  4. Lesson 4

    Building a portfolio: audit, QI, teaching and research, and the permissions each needsPaid programme

    What separates audit, quality improvement, teaching and research, which governance or ethics route applies, what counts as evidence, and why ambitious projects that never finish are worth less than small ones that do.

  5. Lesson 5

    Planning a first audit or QI project and closing the loopPaid programme

    A step-by-step approach to a small, finishable project, from question to re-audit or re-measurement.

  6. Lesson 6

    Your first 90 days: a development planPaid programme

    A one-page, three-stage plan for your first three months, with a fully filled fictional example, specific feedback requests and honest limits on what any plan can promise.