Developmedica welcome Orion Locums as a partner

As the UK's leading provider of non-clinical career support for medical professionals, Developmedica are pleased to announce their partnership with one of the leading locum agencies for healthcare professionals in the UK, Orion Locums.

Orion Locums offer placements in a variety of client establishments throughout the UK as well as opportunities to work abroad. Their extensive experience in working with clients to provide solutions to their staffing needs has helped Orion to become one of the leading suppliers of healthcare professionals in the UK.

The Commercial Director of Developmedica, Sarah Bell, commented upon the partnership, saying: “As the UK’s premier medical career support service, it is important that Developmedica is able to build strong links with similar leaders within the field of healthcare support. We are looking forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship with Orion.”

Orion Locums doctors are entitled to a 10% discount off all products and services available on our website. For more information concerning this discount, please contact Orion Locums.

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BMJ published article by the author of our forthcoming 'Clinical Audit for Doctors' title

Developmedica are constantly at the forefront of meeting the development needs of healthcare professionals in the UK, and consequently our ‘Clinical Audit for Doctors’ book is due for publication this November.

The process of clinical audit has become an integral part of NHS practice and is one of the key principles of clinical governance which doctors must strive to meet. With audit being such a key component of a doctor’s role in healthcare today, Developmedica are here to offer support and guidance to individuals in that capacity.

Written by doctors highly experienced in the audit process, and edited by Robert Ghosh, the Chairman of the Clinical Audit and Effectiveness Committee at Homerton University Hospital, this upcoming book stresses the importance of audit skills to doctors in progressing their careers, as well as telling you how to identify suitable audit topics and carry out an effective audit.

To read an article published on clinical audit by Robert Ghosh, click here.

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Developmedica expands its presence abroad

Developmedica is the leading have long been the leading provider of non-clinical career support for medical professionals in the UK but now our international prestige has led us to the Middle East in support of doctors.

At the beginning of this month, from 2-3 October, we delivered a bespoke Teach The Teacher course to a group of eleven delegates at An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine. Feedback from the doctors attending was overwhelmingly positively and Developmedica hopes to return some time in the future to deliver further courses there.

Matt Green, founder and Managing Director of Developmedica, was delighted at the expanding global presence delivering this course hinted at, and commented: “For several years now Developmedica have been the leading support service for doctors in the UK requiring career development assistance and I am absolutely delighted that we are now establishing a presence abroad also. While we are fully committed to improving the quality of healthcare in the UK, it is of course a wonderful step forwards for us here at Developmedica to offer our services to healthcare professionals around the world also.”

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Foreword by Sir Liam Donaldson in upcoming Developmedica publication

Sir Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer of England, has kindly contributed a foreword to our upcoming book, ‘Clinical Audit for Doctors’, which is due for release in November. A sneak preview of his foreword is below:

‘Audit is a valuable tool to drive quality improvement and decrease the variation between organisations’ performance against quality criteria. The process of examining current practice, then making changes and looking for evidence of improvement, is at the heart of this. Done frequently and well, clinical audit has the potential to transform services for patients, resulting in a significant positive shift in the quality of health organisations. To deliver excellent care, we must guard against audit becoming simply an obligation to progress through training or satisfy clinical governance boards.’

Clinical Audit for Doctors has been written to provide readers with the knowledge and skills required on how to become involved with and conduct effective clinical audit as part of maintaining clinical excellence. To find out more information about this upcoming Developmedica publication, click here.

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Tweet!

Developmedica are aware of the busy lives that doctors lead and consequently the popularity of using Twitter as a quick and easy way of communicating online. As part of our effort to keep medical professionals consistently up-to-date with new products and offers available from us we have now opened our own Twitter account.

To follow our Twitter account you can visit us at http://www.twitter.com/developmedica or by clicking the image below:
 

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Success at BMJ Careers Fairs this month

Developmedica are pleased to announce the resounding success they had at the BMJ Careers Events in London and Birmingham this month.

As the UK’s leading provider of non-clinical career support to healthcare professionals, Developmedica was the only medical career support service represented at both conferences. Several talks were delivered at each event on critical career development topics such as CV preparation and applying to posts, these gaining the plaudits of the numerous doctors in attendance.

We were also able to demonstrate our broad range of intuitive and leading edge eLearning Modules at our stand to many doctors who expressed their interest in our user-orientated approach to learning. Similarly, our range of publications and commitment to medical publishing attracted a great extent of interest.

Developmedica remain committed to supporting doctors at every stage of their career and we are next scheduled to appear at the Cardiff Deanery’s Medical Careers Information Day on the 24th October. To read more about that, click here.

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Developmedica Attending Medical Careers Information Day

On Saturday 24th October, Developmedica will be in attendance at the Medical Careers Information Day being held by Cardiff University aimed at prospective medical students and early career doctors.

Developmedica will be presenting talks aimed at attendees and Sarah Christie will also be present to sign copies of her 'Effective Time Management Skills for Doctors' book which is due to be imminently published.

For more information about the site, you can visit Cardiff University's website here.

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Time Management Article On BMJ Careers Site

Since the implementation of the European Working Time Directive, which restricts a doctor’s working week to 48 hours, and the medical leadership competency framework, which calls for doctors to develop key personal skills, including how to manage their time efficiently, effective time management skills have become paramount for doctors working within the NHS.

The needs of doctors are the number one priority for Developmedica and we currently offer a CPD accredited (6 CPD points) Time Management Course, and are about to imminently publish 'Effective Time Management Skills for Doctors', written by Sarah Christie.

Sarah Christie and Matt Green, the Managing Director of Developmedica, have recently had an article on time management published on the BMJ Careers website which you can read for free here.

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Developmedica to attend upcoming 'A Career In Cardiology' Conference

In the upcoming year Developmedica are proud to have been invited to attend ‘A Career In Cardiology’ conference being held at the Birmingham Hippodrome Conference Centre on Friday 26th February 2010, which focuses on the Cardiology ST3 application process.

A comprehensive one day course for all research fellows, junior and middle-grade doctors aspiring to become recognised Cardiology Trainees, Developmedica will be attending the event and delivering a number of talks about succeeding in the ST3 selection process.

Mr. Matt Green, as the founder and Managing Director of Developmedica, the leading non-clinical support service for doctors in the UK, has helped hundreds of doctors successfully apply to posts since 2005. Consequently, due to his unique experience, he is the one non-clinical participant selected as part of the six-person panel to discuss interview techniques as part of the ‘Optimising your performance at the ST3 selection interview’ workshop. He will also be delivering a talk on ‘Enhancing your CV and completing the application form for maximum impact’ earlier in the day.

Mr. Green had the following to say about the event: “Developmedica as a company has been at the forefront of offering non-clinical support to doctors for several years now, and as part of that we are proud to have helped numerous doctors progress to that next stage of their career. The ST3 selection process can be a daunting process but I’m interested in helping our future Cardiologists through it.”

To download a PDF containing details on how you can book onto this event, click here.

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