I attended the "Life after GP Speciality Training" day arranged by the East Midlands and Trent deanery for ST2 and ST3s. It was a useful day with sessions on locuming, salaried contract, role of LMC, CV preparation, partnership applications and interviews, finances, etc. Needless to say, it was very appropriate. There were about 50 trainees and the day was divided in workshops.

The interesting thing was that only one trainee had a job in hand two months from finishing training.

To summarize,
1. Most of us will be either locums or salaried GPs or unemployed at the end of our training ( even though we have passed the nMRCGP...the exam that no previous GP in the country had to take to prove their competence and be employable).
2. We will continue to have access to our ePortfolios ( not sure if we would be able to make entries....does anyone actually want to?)
3. Revalidation is coming and we would need to carry on collecting evidence, thus giving us a head start compared to our non nMRCGP colleagues ( which is all the GPs in UK)
4. Point 3 takes us back to point 2 : we would not be able to port data from eportfolio to the annual Appraisal website.
5. Partnerships are rare but apparantly the "pendulum" will swing in our favour in the coming years. There will be a need / demand for partners.
6. Portfolio GPs are on the rise and there are some decent avenues ( academic, etc)

All in all, a good day. I would advise trainees to attend the next one.

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