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Many GPs do something as well as their day-to-day
surgeries. This is accepted, even encouraged, in
general practice.
I do/have done:
- run evening sessions for our two Patient Groups;
- helped organise the Bath area obstetrics service;
- work as a GP Trainer;
- teach Medical Students;
- work as a Course Organiser (Lecturer at University
of Bath);
- examiner for the MRCGP (4 weeks a year);
- represented GP educators in negotiations with DoH;
- done a Masters Degree (MMEd);
- written two books ( the first, Medical Statistics
Made Easy, Harris M & Taylor, G 2004 is the
best-selling medical statistics book in the UK).
I feel that these have complemented and helped
improve my work as a GP.
Other possibilities include:
- working abroad for a period (Australasia, Africa
etc);
- doing hospital work (Clinical Assistants, Associate
Specialists);
- doing occupational medicine (e.g. for Marks and
Spencer);
- working for HM Armed Forces (as civilian MO);
- working for the Primary Care Trust;
- getting into medical politics;
- medical journalism & the media;
- government work (e.g. Benefits Agency);
- pharmaceutical company work (research, marketing);
- medical research;
- medico-legal work...
So, what's the down side?
In general, these jobs don't pay as well as being a
GP.
If you're doing a fixed number of sessions in a
practice, the partners may understandably be
reluctant to release you for other work.
Written by: Michael Harris
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26 January 2008
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