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Transferable skills
These are skills that can be devel oped through your experience at medical school
and that can be carried through to the workplace. Having these types of skills will
help to boost your CV and ultimately, your ability to get the job you want. Remember
in an application, CV or interview, it is always good to have a few examples that you
can talk about, so you dont keep repeating the same experience.
Above all employers value self-awareness and sel f-confidence. Self-awareness
involves knowing your own strength and weaknesse s. This is wh y a good
understanding of your own skills is so important, as well as your ability to describe
them.
Below are some ideas of how you can demonstrate these skills and some
examples of where you can gain the experience:
Communication skills
Teamwork
What you can demonstrate:
Examples of where you can
get the experience:
q Oral face-to-face contact or contact by telephone
q Written communication examples of emails,
letters you have written (your accuracy and
attention to detail)
q
Negotiation skillsq Liaison skills
q Influencing skills
q Listening skills and giving appropriate feedback
q Social confidence
q Talking about yourself in a way that shows self-
awareness.
q Expressing ide as- examples of where you have
had to do this
q Language skills
q Presentations you have
done at university
q Previous job, part-time
role
q
Volunteeringq Teaching or mentoring
young people.
What you can demonstrate:
Examples of where you can get theexperience:
q Participation in the delivery of team
presentations
q The variety of team-working situations you
have experienced
q Flexibility in team-working
q Working together to achieve shared goals
q Developing open relationships with
colleagues
q Actively sharing information and pooling
skills
q Treating colleagues with respect
q Supporting colleagues under pressure
q Previous job, or part-time role
q Team sports/ outdoor pursuits
q In team projects as part of your
course-work
q Student-selected Compone nts
(SSCs)
q In meetings and discussions
q Volunteering.
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Adaptability and flexibility
Problem-solving
Networking
Research skills
experience
q Coping well with a sudden
crisis
q Coming up with new ideas
student rep
q Getting relevant project work/ SSCs
q Creating your own website
q Starting a new group or resurrecting an old
one
q Volunteering.
What you can demonstrate:
Examples of where you can get the
experience:
q How you have an attitude of
welcoming change
q How you have risen to new challenges
q Year abroad/ independent travel
abroad
q Part-time work whilst studying
q Successfully changing courses
q Shift-work; working at short notice
q Using language skills abroad
q Combining study with family
commitments.
What you can demonstrate:
Examples of where you can get the experience:
q Creative solutions to
coursework problems
q Showing strong analytical
skills
q Developing a system/ new
way of working to improve
efficiency
q Overcoming obstacles to
achieve an ambition
q Working in an environment with difficult staff
or customers
q Examples of where you have had to make
tough decisions, where you have weighed
up the odds.
q In a research project /SSCs
q Setting up an elective project e.g. abroad
q Taking part in an audit.
What you can demonstrate:
Examples of where you can get the
experience:
q How you have talked to people at
careers fairs/royal college events
q How you have talked to trainee
doctors/consultants on your clinical
attachments.
q By attending careers fairs (see
your medical school website for
details)
q Going to royal college events (look
on their websites and see our
events page
q On clinical attachments
What you can demonstrate:
Examples of where you can get the
experience:
q Knowledge of how to approach
researching a topic
q Good use of the internet for research
q Being able to sort out all the information
you have collected.
q Reviewing the peer-reviewed literature on
a topic
q Report writing
q Carrying out an audit
q Getting relevant project
work/SSCs
q Intercalated degree
q Reporting on your elective
project
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