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GP Career Options
3rd February 2009
Celebrity GPs, Media GPs and
Notorious GP!
Flexibility
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Partnership – full time/part time
Salaried – full time/part time
Locum
Retainer
OOH GP
Career Opportunities
 GPwSI (accreditation by PCT in England; RCGP
Scotland)
 OOH – emergency care
 CHP Clinical lead (Scotland)
 Medical advisers – industry
– DWP
– medical defence
– GMC
 Medical politics – BMA
– LMC
 RCGP incl. college examiner
 Appraiser
And more…
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Police Surgeon
Prison medical officer
School medical officer
Sports Club Doctor
Media/Commercial writing
and more…
Other Options
 Occupational Health
 Armed forces
 Pharmaceutical companies
 Private/commercial
 Charity organisations
ACADEMIC
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Post GPR career posts
Undergraduate teaching
Post graduate education
Research
Professor of General Practice!
NES GP Fellowships
 Rural Training Fellowships (8)
 Paediatric Fellowships (3)
 Health Inequalities Fellowship (1 post wte, 2 posts 0.5 wte)
 Medical Education Fellowship (4 posts at 0.5 wte)
Advertised in BMJ and NES website; closing date 13th
February 2009.
academic
 NIHR In-Practice Academic Fellowships
(National Institute for Health Research)
http://www.nccrcd.nhs.uk/intetacatrain/inpracticefellowship
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PERFORMER’S LIST
 Applicants must be listed in the GP Register and
on the Performers' List of their Primary Care
Organisation BEFORE starting work in general
practice in any capacity (It is not a requirement for
the applicant to be in possession of their
certificate). If an application for a certificate and
subsequent GP Registration is pending,
employment must be deferred until entry on the
GP Register is achieved.
Application to be placed on performers list:
NHSTayside
Mrs Marion Brooksbank, Admin Support Officer
Tayside Primary Care NHS Trust
Ashludie Hospital
Victoria Street
MONIFIETH
Dundee
DD5 4HQ
01382 527860
(You need to apply to all health boards in which
you plan to work)
Academic:
HPT Fellows
Teacher/trainer
University
Postgrad. Dept.
Research
Locums
Salaried GPs
Retainers
Prof. bodies:
RCGP
Medical politics
GMC
MDU
Principal in
general practice
Inner city
Suburban
Remote/rural
GPwSI
Clinical service
development
Appraisers
Occ. health
Police surgeons
Sports club doctors
Pharmaceutical
Armed forces
Out Of Hours Emergency Doctors