Hi there, Anthony Llewellyn from AdvanceMed and the Career DoctorYouTube
channel.
Thanks to all of you who sent in your questions
about our 2020 workshop.
they're really good questions and I wanted to go through
them and answer them for you right now.
So first question was, will there be questions and answers
at the 2020 workshop Well, yes they will be.
and obviously by this question, we're not talking about whether
we will talk about interview questions and interview answers, although
we will talk about that in some of the topics
for the workshop.
But there were definitely be questions and answers.
So the way that will work, each session runs for
about 45 minutes.
Our presenters, a very expert, most of them are presented
at our workshops before and they know to present in
a very tight, efficient, informative format.
So there'll be plenty of time at the end of
each live webinar if you don't get all your questions
and answers sorted.
there'll be moderators for each session looking at your questions
and helping to curate them and pick the, prioritize them
and put them all together.
Now, obviously, we want everyone to get the best benefit
out of each session.
So one thing that we would say is if the
session for is for example, about CV fees, please ask
you a question about CVS.
Don't ask a question about the interview, there's a presentation
on that later.
Be respectful to other people attending the session.
You want to know about the topic that the expert
is presenting afterwards.
There'll also be a process where you can ask the
question of the presenter and the topic after the event
has occurred.
So the way that works is each talk page, there's
a section where you can post a comment a bit
like a WordPress blog or something like that and we
can engage in, answer your questions asynchronously as well too.
So for example, if you're particularly attending the talk, using
a replay that'll help you to get your questions put
up an answer to it.
So, the presenters will look at that.
But our team also look at that.
So Casa who exactly is going to answer it, but
you will get an expert answering your question.
So plenty of attention to questions and answers.
It's an interactive workshop.
Next question, will they be replaced And I just mentioned
that there are definitely replays available.
we'd like to encourage as many of you as possible
to attend the talks live, but there are definitely options
and ticketing options for, getting access to any of the
talks as a replay.
We recognize that, you know, not everyone's going to be
able to attend live at the exact time that presenter
is presenting.
So replays would generally go up about two or three
days after that particular talk.
Thanks.
Question, can the workshop be interactive Well, I think I've
already dealt with this in one way.
there's plenty of interactivity on the website page.
You can, you will be, post questions and answers during
the live webinars.
You'll be able to ask questions or comments on the
talk pages.
we'll be encouraging you to interact in that way.
Now, if any of you though have been to any
of that actual face to face live workshops, you know
that we do make sure that there's plenty of interactivity
there as well.
So one of the ways we tend to do those
through audience polling, so it's lucky a lot of the
workshops will have some sort of interactive audience poll.
We can interact in that way and get some ideas.
in addition, some of our workshops we'll probably include some
exercises for you to do, was short activities to do
in the time allotted, to get you to implement some
of the principles that we, suggest that you've put in
place.
will it be a specific intern Will there be specific
assistance for international medical graduates Yes.
This year I want to, the good things about running
this workshop in online format freed up in terms of,
you know, having to run it on a certain day
with a certain restricted amount of time is that we
can include additional public.
So you'll see already on the schedule.
Then there are specific top topics listed for international medical
graduates.
Now, a lot of the content that we teach these
workshops whilst it's pitched and has been developed for training
doctors is generally relevant for international medical graduates.
You know, how to put together a resume, how to
undertake an interview, that sort of thing.
but we recognize that some of you want some specific
tips that can be hard, but you know, I'm doing
trying to get a job in Australia so we have
some tools so that as the workshop rolls on, there'll
be more talks specifically around the needs of RMGs.
particularly, we want somebody who's gonna follow the normal flow
will be normally flow of annual medical recruitment Australia.
And it's not until that kind of tile, each end
of the annual medical recruitment cycle around the sort of
September, October, where the second round offers tend to come
out.
That's where the opportunity is for international medical writers.
That's when I sort of schedule some of the content
for the time that's best for you guys to get
as well.
okay.
Will it be speakers from selection panels yes, definitely.
let me take you through the way.
We tend to, approach speakers to present, workshops.
generally we bring in experts from other one of two
areas.
Firstly, we have a bunch of senior doctors who are
heavily involved in the recruitment and selection process, having sent
across interview panels and going through CPS and rise and
in many cases prepare trainees for selection, like giving comments
on their CV, suggesting referees, that sort of thing for
many years.
So they've been through lots of episodes of this process.
They know what you need to do to get into
the interview pile and takes six, eight of the interview,
that sort of thing.
So it's important to get that perspective on the selection
process.
But equally important, we believe it's important to get a
perspective of current trainees who've successfully navigated parts of the
process cause you want to get the perspective of the
other side of the, interview table and get some tips
and tactics and, suggestions from those experts too.
So definitely lots of speakers from actual selection panels.
can you talk about what senior doctors and interviewers look
for Yes, definitely.
A lot of our topics will be about how the
chair of the selection panel reviews your CV, what's out
looking for you on the front page.
and then also what is being sought after in the
interview process.
So perspectives from people that actually heavily involved in selection
in terms of what we're looking for, you know, what
is critical to get across in that often 15 minutes.
It is for an interview, sometimes it's a bit longer.
so this is it.
A lot of a talk given by experts have had
a lot of experience and know what to sort for
envisioning it myself presenting a lot of the topics.
and obviously I've had over 25 years experience in this
particular area of medical recruitment, having reviewed thousands of CVS
and sat in thousands of interviews as well.
Know a lot about the different types of selection processes
that happen both in the hospitals as well as in
colleges, et cetera.
So plenty of expertise about what we're looking for in
the interview.
Can you make it more affordable Yes, we can.
And we have, so you know, the prices for workshops
in the past because of being face to face because
of being able to a central location at a major
city hotel, we've had to charge a reasonable amount, for
the tennis, that workshop in order to cover costs.
there's a lot more that goes into cleaning the hotel,
there's speaker fees, donations, whatever usual, other things that go
into making a successful workshop.
we, we definitely don't make a profit out of these
workshops.
I could do much other things that yeah, I'm less
passionate about, to make a bit of money if I
wanted to.
So the good things anyway about doing it online is
yes, we've removed the cost of the hotel from the
equation and that helps us to make it a bit
cheaper for you.
But the only thing about the online format, unconstrained from
when we run it, what dates and stuff, we can
provide a bunch of different ticketing options.
so you know, if you want to go to one
talk only, there's an option for that.
If you want to pick for talks as an option
for that.
If you want the whole series of talks, there's an
option for that.
So we're to give people as many options as possible
to make this an affordable experience but getting more value
out of it.
Cause the other thing that we're doing is actually providing
more content, more information to more people.
because again, we don't, we're not limited to just one
day of the year.
so it's more accessible, it's more affordable and there's even
better value for you so we can make it affordable
and we've done that.
will it be interview scenarios and model answers So definitely,
the key focus and you know, we've seen from one
of the survey results we've done so far in terms
of what people are wanting again this year and we
know from policy is, is the critical issue is preparing
for the interview and how best to do that.
Now.
Obviously they're, you know, we can't cover absolutely every question
that might possibly come up in a doctor job interview,
but it's interesting as marketable how actually common a lot
of the questions are even across bit seniority, et cetera.
and that's, that's because often we're selecting for the same
inherent qualities.
So there are certain interviews, scenarios that come up regularly
and we'll take you through them in the workshop with
the experts and we'll give you the frameworks and some
examples and some model answers.
And actually the most important thing is having a framework
and the ability to practice now how to practice and
what to prepare.
so definitely plenty of interviews, scenarios and plenty of, options
for answering those interview questions.
will I be element to interact with the speakers later
So, yes, you will recognize that some people won't have
the opportunity to ask a question live.
so there'll be the option on each talk page after
the talks occurred and after we posted the replay up,
for you to post a comment or a question and
we'll get you an answer.
you know, you've paid attention, you paid your money, you,
we want you to get the best value out of
that particular talk.
So if there's a question that you know you just
didn't think of or didn't actually get answered or coming
back to later, you want to post that, we can
definitely help you out with that.
And so this is going to be a simple matter
of posting your question as a comment on the talk
page.
We'll look at that and we'll get you an answer
back.
So I definitely interact with speakers later.
Now suddenly someone as big as my most like give
you the social links or other contexts that's up to
them.
Certainly if you want to talk to me, there are
plenty of options for getting in contact with me.
How many talks Well, this is a good question.
so you see we've got a bunch of talks.
I think it was about 1314 listed up there on
the site so far.
I'm organizing more as we go on.
It's kind of a rolling process.
and the thing is, again, we're not constrained by time
so we can actually run as many talks as we
want and even repeat talks if it's something that's kind
of, there's a big demand for, so it's really up
to you guys.
were hoping the community of doctors out there that are
interested in better managing their medical career really get behind
this new initiative and the more of you who sign
up, who are prepared to pay a little bit of
money to get this high value content.
the more speakers we can source in, the longer we
weekend run this.
and we've deliberately set this up because it's a bit
uncertain as to how medical recruitment's happening this year.
So we want to make this a platform that's available
to you when you need it.
and so we envisaged, you know, said that the Mo,
the summer's going to wrap up around August, it might
be that we need to run a bit longer and
if we do need to run it a bit longer,
we will run a bit longer.
depending on how medical recruitment's going.
So, if you guys get behind it, if you back
house, we can get more speakers, we can get more
topics covered, we can cover all the key extra questions
that you might have and this is it even repeat
talks if, if it's needed.
And that's helpful.
So, and unlimited number of talks potentially, but certainly, it
would be based on the audience and their engagement from
this point onwards.
But stay tuned because we've got some more exciting announcements
in the next couple of weeks of additional speakers.
You know, part of the thing is me just the
speakers are kind of used to this, this format either
they used to kind of, Oh, I've got to come
on a certain day.
And I was saying, well actually we can make them
negotiate when you want to talk.
It's a lot of us, just a little bit about
when they're available.
A final question is why can't it be face to
face Well, have you been allowed to go out lately
yeah, look, we all recognize that, it'd be lovely to
run the workshop face to face and still you've done
that in the past and that's been a helpful way,
particularly people interacting with the experts.
But you know, there's some limitations around that approach.
One of the big limitations is we've talked about already
the cost, you know, hosting any other major city hotel.
What's the cost of it it also limits us in
numbers generally cause we've got to sort of decide how
many that we can sort of think will come.
And, you know, I got to put some money forward
fairly early on to reserve the hotel so we can't
just sort of open the biggest price possible and you
know, more people come in.
So that's part of the reason that workshops tend to
sell out.
We've got about 150, 200, so, you know, and then
it's in a central location and there's only so many
days in a year and then need so many days
that kind of, around the recruitment process.
So we lovely to move it around the country.
And we've certainly repetitive Brisbane before.
I've had it in regional new South Wales.
Victoria, are you going to approach us from New Zealand in
the past Running in New Zealand We ran in Canberra.
I ran a workshop in Cambra last year as well
and it's great, but again, the value of having it
in this online platform, firstly there's some costs involved with
it on one platform.
but you know, it is a little bit cheaper than
running it through hotels.
so that, you know, we've, you know, to reduce the
cost, but it also means we can, provide access to
you wherever you are, as long as you've got internet
connectivity, and, provided over a longer period of time, which
means that you can engage with it, more continuously and,
provide you more value, more content.
So I actually kind of like that we're doing it
this way this year.
We're actually, you know, we've been doing online teaching for
some time.
We're not zoom novices or anything like that.
We know how to make the zoom work.
but I'm actually hopeful that this is going to be
better for most people.
So whilst, yeah, probably only doing some face to face
workshops, in the future, hopefully in 2021 suspect.
And I hope that this becomes an ongoing thing every
year where we can actually provide better access to more
people.
So there you go.
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