This is Just the Beginning:

Getting Prepared for your Postgrad

Do you feel lost?

Aim

An informative session about how to get prepared during medical school for what comes after

To define your future specialty goals and what steps

you need to do to reach them

Outline
Obstacles Road map What to do during med school What to do during internship Applying Take home message

Obstacles
Lack of guidance or mentoring during medical school Weak research and statistics No encouraging financial/prestigious Highly competitive field Jobs, Local Programs, Program

abroad, Private sector

Weak recommendations Lack of post grad continuing support or guidance

Medical school

Research/Exams/Electives

Masters/ Research

Residency

Research/Exams/Electives

Masters/ Research

Fellowship

During medical school

A) Find your interest

B) Discover and ask around C) Electives D) Research and publications E) Exams F) Need a face lift?

Find your interest

1st Question Is this what I want to do as a living? Are there other alternatives medical administrative, non medical related eg, Dads business?

Discover and ask around

Yes I'm sticking with it to the bitter end
Alrighty then
What do I like? How can I shine? What does my community need? What is available?

Ummm, what to choose?

Needed subspecialties
Community medicine ICU Surgery and Medicine Neurology Subspecilty surgereons Infertility Urology,Gyn

http://www.moh.gov.sa/Portal/WhatsNew/Documents/OKIstra gi260p.pdf

Available non-physician specialties

This is why I choose surgery, very simple wardrobe

Electives
Why?
Duuuh

What?
See above

When?
Summer 4th 5th

Where?
summer abroad, local hospitals, national hospitals

How?
See Next

Visiting Students Electives Program

University of Dalhousie - Halifax http://undergraduate.medicine.dal.ca/electives.htm University of Toronto http://www.md.utoronto.ca/students/visiting.htm University of Calgary http://www.ucalgary.ca/mdprogram/visitingelectives University of Alberta - Edmonton http://ume.med.ualberta.ca/CurrentMDStudents/VisitingStudentElectives/Pages/d efault.aspx University of Manitoba - Winnipeg http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/medicine/education/undergraduate/electives.html Memorial University of Newfoundland - St Johns http://www.med.mun.ca/UGradME/Clerkship-Electives/Visiting-Students.aspx McGill University - Montreal http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/ugme/electives/visiting_interapp_en.htm University of British Columbia - Vancouver http://www.med.ubc.ca/education/md_ugrad/clerkship_electives.htm

Research & Publications

Try to aim for your specialty of choice but it is not necessary Look for active REALLY active!! staff members Go to the new staff because they need the publications Think of ideas to approach then take what they have Write anything and I mean ANYTHING at all Start off with a case report go on to a review READ about paper writing on the net , search youtube for lectures

Nobody uses books anymore, open the net

Research & Publications

Fundamentals of epidemiology http://www.teachepi.org/documents/courses/fundamentals/Pai_Lecture2_Study_desi gns.pdf Classification of study design http://www.teachepi.org/documents/courses/Classification%20Design.pdf Natl Med J India. 2004 Mar-Apr;17(2):86-95. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses: an illustrated, step-by-step guide. Pai M http://teachepi.org/documents/courses/berlin/Pai_Introduction%20to%20Systematic %20Reviews.pdf Multiple courses and online self explanatory lectures in Epi and Stats http://www.teachepi.org/ Courtesy of Dr M Pai WIKI good WIKI our friend

Exams USMLE

USMLE part 1 +/- part 2 CK

https://secure2.ecfmg.org/emain.asp?app=iwa

Do your TOFEL as well

http://www.toeflgoanywhere.org/

Need a face lift?

Get a Masters Public health, epidemiology, biostatistics or in whatever department you wish to pursue a residency in surgery, medicine etc Ask the department or departments in other universities
http://www.surgery-research.mcgill.ca/program/

You are your own enemy

Hoping someone else will help and hold your hand

Procrastinating delaying the inevitable Hoping when time comes things will fix itself Wasting a good 6 years of your life studying the minimum needed

During internship

A) Rotations & Electives

B) Research and publications

C) Exams
D) Look for a job

Rotations & Electives

Prepare your schedule early on Ask previous years where and who and what

Try to arrange a month of elective abroad

Get your recommendations FRCSC etc

Research & Publications

Easier to get done more time on hand More clinical exposure enough case reports to go around Never seen a paper not published Doesnt matter where Indian Journal of Fishermen would be great Help others and get your name on stuff

Present and do posters in symposiums

Exams
USMLE part 2 CK/CS MCCEE http://www.mcc.ca/en/exams/ee/apply.shtml

Saudi License Exam

Basics BLS, ACLS +/- ATLS TOFEL GRE if necessary

look for a job

Make 5000 copies of your CV and send them

everywhere
MOH, KAU, KKNGH, KFAFH and any other King

institutes u know
In any city ? YES Erfan & Faqih are not Kings ie. forget the private sec Try enlisting in a residency program Shop and ask around

It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class
Author unknown

Other options
Apply directly for an MOHE scholarship

Apply for a masters abroad or local

Part time administration/private not advised Stay home and spend your time on playstation waiting for a phone call
also not advised

You dont want to end up being this guy

Applying
Identify Potential Supervisors from university websites Make a connection http://www.mcgill.ca/gradapplicants/apply/prepare/connecting-supervisor Send Proper CV and letter plus some interview skills http://www.mcgill.ca/caps/students/job-search/cv/ http://www.jhsph.edu/bin/i/x/Career_Crash_Course_Fall_2011.pdf http://cms.skidmore.edu/career/communications/handouts/upload/ResumeCo verLetterGuide.pdf Page 11 words to use CHECK YOUR SPELLING AND GRAMMAR

Please check your spelling and grammar

Take home message

Write down on a piece of paper the pros and cons of what you want Check out all the available options Be a step ahead Prepare a CV, Exams, Electives Research Research and more Research

Thank You
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