CV REVIEW: I am a doctor looking to move into financial services

8 October 2009

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CV REVIEW: I am a doctor looking to move into financial services

I am a medical doctor looking to move into a healthcare role within financial services. I've had enough of the poor career progression in medicine - there are significant sub-consultant grades and not many consultants, with the result that only a small number go on to become consultants, with the rest remaining on quite poor pay packages. I also feel that the work/life balance in medicine is poor and that given the target driven way in which hospitals operate, job satisfaction is low; there's very little in real traditional patient care available. I'd be willing to consider opportunities in the areas of research, venture capital or consulting

SUMMARY

- Medical Doctor seeking a career transition to Financial Services within Healthcare

- Help setup a start-up Health Centre and manage it as the Lead Clinician

- Qualified Surgeon & Independent General Practitioner

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

2009 Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners, MRCGP

2008 Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, DRCOG

2006 Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, MRCS(Eng)

1997 - 2002 Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery, MB BS(Lond)

1995 - 1997 GCE A Levels, Chemistry [A] Biology [A] Physics [B]

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

- Helping setup and manage a start-up Health Centre including being the Lead Clinician

- Developing a new protocol for prevention of clots in the legs and lungs of post operative patients

- Presenting my scientific work at an International Scientific meeting

TRANSFERRABLE SKILL SET

- Analytical/problem solving mind

- Excellent interpersonal skills

- Daily experience of managing and working in teams

- Developed understanding of the Healthcare sector: National Health Service (both primary & secondary care), Governmental bodies such as Department of Health, Pharmaceuticals and Private Health centres

WORK EXPERIENCE

Aug 2009 - Present Independent Medical Practitioner & Lead Clinician for a start-up Health Centre

- Set up and running a Health Centre, design, implement management protocols & procedures, staff training, ensure clinical governance and an audit trail

Aug 2007 - Aug 2009 General Practitioner

- Involved in Practice management meetings, running minor surgery sessions

- Chairing weekly Stroke multi-disciplinary meetings and communicating team decisions to patients and families

- Junior Doctor Lead, ensuring adequate assignment of junior doctors to meet service needs and maintain training standards

Aug 2006 - Aug 2007 Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon

- Lead for Trauma team, organise and operate in surgery theatre sessions

- Audit healthcare outcomes, report writing and presenting audit findings in departmental and regional meetings

Aug 2003 - Aug 2006 Surgical Training Rotation

- Trauma & Orthopaedics, Emergency Medicine, General Surgery, Urology and Ear, Nose & Throat Surgery

- Attend clinics, operating theatre, emergency patients on call, clinical meetings

- Perform clinical audit, departmental, regional, international presentations, analysis of scientific data, publication of scientific abstracts and papers

- Represent junior doctors at Local Implementation Group meetings

Aug 2002 - Aug 2003 Junior Doctor in Medicine & Surgery

CLINICAL AUDIT

- GP referrals to the Paediatric day unit. A proforma exists but was very complicated. I looked at what information was pertinent, streamlined the proforma providing feedback to the local GPs making it easier to refer patients. This improved communication and documentation between primary and secondary care

- Thromboembolic prophylaxis for Elective Total Hip and Knee Surgery. Determining the deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism rates and making recommendations for a uniform departmental thromboembolic prophylaxis protocol

LANGUAGES & INTERESTS

- Malay (Fluent), Spanish (Competent), French (Basic)

- Running, Tennis, Golf, Basketball - Winner of University Hospital Cup & League

- Amateur Tropical fish hobbyist

REFERENCES

- Available on request

AUTHORAnonymous

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Shifu
31 March 2013
Same issue here. I'm a 29 year-old doctor and already had enough of this sick unprofitable stationary career. I'm dying to get any other job that i might like and excel in. The only available allowed positions are either a pharmacist at a local pharmacy or either a medical rep, which are two very boring jobs btw. I concidered working also as a customer care personnel in mobile carrier customer care services, but even a shitty job like those were out of reach coz I got no 'connections'.
It's been about a year since I left the bloody career and stayed at home, and even though no obvious hope in front of me in finding another job, I'd rather die out of hunger than going back being... a doctor!!!
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AccountingDoc
24 June 2010
I say good luck to you! Perhaps since posting your CV you have made some progress.
I too am a 30 year old doctor wishing to make the transition to 'finance'. I'm looking at entry level accounting positions as the first step - I'm quite prepared to start at the bottom again! I've done some OU undergrad maths and find the markets, economics and business to be really fascinating, unlike medicine. I've started to invest and trade stocks and ETFs for myself. Different strokes for different folks I guess. Once one has a 'profession' the safest course of action is to stay put, but sometimes you have to take a risk. I've worked with many doctors in their 50s and 60s who are totally disillusioned after hating it for years. What's the point? Life is too short.
It seems certain that people in our position will need to do further study whether that is an MBA, accounting qualification or other but I say good luck to this person!
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samu
16 June 2010
how far are you doc with your hunt? Am a doc finishing my MBA now but work in the non profit sector...every moment is worth it in my career change adventure...and am 33
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emrah
17 April 2010
Hi there Doc, could you please send me your contact details to konakli85@hotmail.com, cheers
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Jo
14 October 2009
Analyst,
I apologise - it's a sophisticated concept and I understand that it is frustrating for you to be struggling with it. My point is that medicine is a high-pressure, high-performance career; as are many parts of banking (possibly not yours). 'Dropping out' from one (medicine), because it's all a bit hard, and expecting, as a second choice, to be able to just resurface in the other (banking) is a bit unrealistic given the calibre of people who choose it as a first choice. They are also sufficiently different careers, from any point of view except possibly the remunerative, that one ought to know which one is committed to if one is motivated by anything other than money; which no recruiter worth their salt will consider a good reason for the move.
Oh, and I apologise. Recruiters have clearly been slow to recognise your great merit, which will account for your misinformed view that they are 'morons'. (Why are you browsing career sites anyway? This is my job).
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