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Career Development

Elevate your medical career with our Career Planning and Interview Preparation webinar series for early-career doctors

At MDA National, we recognise that planning your career and preparing for interviews can be a daunting task. To support you on your journey, we're excited to offer two comprehensive and practical webinar series on Career Planning and Interview Preparation.

This series are a Member-only benefit. We have very limited spots available for non-members who wish to attend each event.

 

Not a Member?

To gain access to the Interview Preparation and Career Planning series, as well as our entire educational resources and Member-only benefits, apply for Membership & Professional Indemnity Insurance online.

If you're interested in attending as a non-member, please register your interest to be placed on a waitlist. Should a place become available, we will contact you closer to the event with access details.

 

 

Unsure about your career path? (Join our live sessions)

 

Webinar Series for Junior Doctors: Finding Your Medical Specialty

Are you unsure which medical specialty to choose because you like everything? Or perhaps you don’t find any area of medicine appealing? Are you interested in non-clinical roles or even considering leaving the field entirely?

To help our junior doctor Members gain career-path clarity, MDA National is hosting a complimentary career planning webinar series presented live by Dr. Ashe Coxon.

Session 1: The first session offers practical guidance and personality-based insights to help junior doctors identify the areas of medicine they enjoy.

Session 2: This follow-on interactive career planning session will assist participants in identifying the medical specialty that suits them best.

Session 3: For junior doctors who already know which medical specialty interests them, this stand-alone session will help participants prepare outstanding employment applications, facilitating the next step in their medical career path.

 

Date and Time Topic  Register 
1 Aug 7:30-8:30pm AEST Your medical career: What to do when you don’t know what to do! Coming soon
15 Aug 7:30-8:30pm AEST Understanding individual personality traits and how these impact work satisfaction and career choices Coming soon
29 Aug 7:30-8:30pm AEST Skills and Strengths: The importance of identifying yours in your career planning, and for applying for your desired role Coming soon
12 Sep 7:30-8:30pm AEST Your medical career: What to do when you don’t know what to do! (Repeat) Coming soon
26 Sep 7:30-8:30pm AEST Understanding individual personality traits and how these impact work satisfaction and career choices (Repeat) Coming soon
10 Oct 7:30-8:30pm AEDT Skills and Strengths: The importance of identifying yours in your career planning, and for applying for your desired role (Repeat) Coming soon

 

Want to be prepared for your job interviews? (Join our live sessions)

Preparing for interviews can be an uncertain and anxiety-provoking time for many junior doctors. These high-stakes interviews often mark pivotal moments in a doctor’s career and require both forethought and planning.

To support our junior doctor Members, MDA National is hosting an interview preparation webinar series. This complimentary five-part series provides everything you need to ace your medical career interviews, including education on interview techniques, practical advice on common interview pitfalls, and training on how to tackle standard and unexpected interview questions.

Presented live by Dr. Brooke Bullock, each session focuses on a key interview question often asked during medical career interviews. These sessions offer the opportunity to ask questions, practice interview techniques, and receive personalized feedback, honing your interview skills and leaving you ready for the next stage of your career.

 

Date and Time Topic  Register 
17 Apr 7:30 -8:30pm AEST Overhaul your CV and written application Completed
24 Apr 7:30 -8:30pm AEST What are your best cards? Completed
1 May 7:30 -8:30pm AEST Tell me about a time when? Completed
8 May 7:30 -8:30pm AEST How would you respond to the following Completed
15 May 7:30 -8:30pm AEST What are your thoughts on? Completed

Meet our Presenters


Dr Brooke Bullock is a Medical Interview Coach with over six years’ experience working with doctors as they prepare for resident, specialty program, and fellowship interviews. Brooke has a long-standing interest in medical officer recruitment which stems from a belief that preparing for an interview should be like preparing for one of the biggest exams of your career.

Brooke works as an Advanced Pharmacist at Gold Coast Health and has experience practicing across numerous diverse environments as a Medical Education Officer, a Researcher - having completed her PhD in 2020 - and as an Accredited Pharmacist with the Australian Association of Consultant Pharmacists.

Dr Ashe Coxon, (MBBS, FRACGP, DCH, MClinEd, Grad Cert Career Development, AFANZAHPE), is a General Practitioner and career counsellor and is the founder of Medical Career Planning.

Dr Coxon has been working with doctors and medical students for over 5 years to assist them to find happiness in work, whether that is medical, non-medical, clinical, or non-clinical. Dr Ashe provides individual appointments, group workshops, consults to organisations and provides online courses.

What attendees say

“Amazing course!! Well presented and interactive. Gives a really good structure for preparing for interviews and building up confidence.”

“Brooke is a dynamic, knowledgeable interview coach who absolutely gave me the edge in my interview. She coached me through my preparation and allowed me to put my best foot forward on the day.”

“This is extremely helpful. I feel thrilled. This is the last missing piece of the puzzle.”

“Thank you for your help. I have been telling everyone to consider doing this - it is so good to feel confident in what I am doing and why."

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