Further help and support

This list of resources is not intended to be exhaustive, but to stimulate your thinking around how you can thrive in a career in medicine. The external sites and publications have been recommended by trainees or trainers within the Deanery.

Further support from Scotland Deanery

• Professional support
• Report a concern
• Careers

Health and wellbeing

• Feeling overwhelmed or distressed? You are not alone.
• Contacts for various health issues or concerns
• Support for doctors - Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
• Resilience, Mental Health & Wellbeing Awareness: The Road to Resilience (article), Building your personal resilience, Coping with Uncertainty
• National Wellbeing and Mental Health Hub
• COVID-19 Psychosocial Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
• COVID-19: Your Mental Wellbeing
• Coping with Coronavirus

Understanding and fostering resilience

• The science of Resiliency; An article explaining the neurotransmitter side to stress responses
• the MDU - Resilience in Medicine
• Developing Career Resilience in Medicine
• Roberson Cooper i-resilience: A quick online assessment to measure your own resilience
• Fixed vs Growth Mindset - Prof Jill Klein

Practical tips and time management

• Looking after yourself so you can better care for others
• www.mindtools.com A very comprehensive site with articles and tools covering thought awareness and emotional intelligence as well as time and project management tips.
• Time Management Advice from the Royal Medical Benevolant Fund
• http://www.bwellbelfast.hscni.net/ Relevant to everyone, a resource written for those working in Health in Northern Ireland

Books

• No Regrets on Sunday: Seven Days Can Change Your Life (2010: Peter Hawkins)
• What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine (2014: Danielle Ofri)
• Inside-Out: The Practice of Resilience (2015: Sven Hansen)
• Thinking, Fast and Slow (2012:Daniel Kahneman)
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (2004: Stephen R. Covey)
• Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain: The New Science of Optimism and Pessimism (2013: Elaine Fox

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