Charalambos Panayiotou Charalambous. Career skills for doctors

Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2015. — 262 p.The ability of a healthcare provider to function optimally requires a vast set of skills, knowledge, behaviours and attitudes many of which are not inherent, not taught overtly, and are often acquired as part of the training and maturation experience.
The importance of inclusiveness of the multi-professional and multidisciplinary team in optimizing patient outcomes should be obvious. The value and benefit of a simple, yet comprehensive resource that addresses many of the questions and concerns of the young practitioner is a welcome addition to all.
This new book Career Skills for Doctors intends to provide advice and counsel for many of the questions and concerns not formally addressed in our curricula. This text, created by a successful practicing surgeon in England, is a collection of broad yet practical topics that will apply to all practitioners in Medicine, especially physicians.
The text provides personal guidance about basic skills in communication and teamwork, prioritization, organization and efficiency. The text serves as a rich resource for reflection and implementation of new skills by providing a wide array of examples and by using questions and simple statements to direct improvement efforts. Importantly, the book also includes sections on self-evaluation of your current practices (audit), and how to approach research, presentations, and publication as well as principles of learning and teaching. While the book is obviously written and applies to the British training schema, the lessons included are universally applicable with the minor translation of terms such as post and attachment with residency program.