Your first year as a UK doctor - common scenarios

Webinar: your first year as a UK Doctor - 12 Novmeber - register below

Event: Your first year as a UK doctor - common scenarios
Date: 12 November 2024
Time: 18.30 GMT
Location: Online

This webinar is designed to support early-career healthcare professionals, including those who have qualified overseas and are beginning their careers in the UK.

We will focus on common, real-world scenarios that you may face in practice, providing you with practical strategies to navigate the key issues.

Drawing on Medical Protection case files, our medicolegal advisers will offer expert guidance on identifying high-risk situations.

Key topics include managing complaints and adverse incidents, confidentiality, and understanding medicolegal processes such as coroner's inquests.

The webinar will help you:

•  recognise the early signs of a complaint
•  develop strategies for good complaints handling
•  learn communication skills to mitigate risk
•  plan an appropriate response to adverse incidents
•  understand the different medicolegal processes and know where to seek support
•  appreciate issues around confidentiality, professional boundaries, and social media

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Speakers

Dr Beth Walker

Medicolegal Consultant, Medical Protection

Dr Walker graduated with an MBBS from University College London in 2011 and was a palliative medicine registrar in the Severn region and Australia before moving to her current role. Dr Walker has an MSc in Medical Education (Dist.) from the Royal College of Physicians (2016) and a Diploma in Legal Medicine (Dist.) from the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine (2017). In 2018, Dr Walker obtained a Graduate Diploma in Law (Dist.) from the University of Law and subsequently a Graduate LLB (First Class Honours) in 2020. Alongside casework and risk prevention, Dr Walker is a member of Medical Protection’s Wellbeing Committee and the working group looking at how we can best support international medical graduates.

Dr Emma Green

Medicolegal Consultant, Medical Protection

Dr Emma Green is a medicolegal consultant and joined Medical Protection as part of the claims team in 2016. She graduated from the University of Manchester in 2007 and trained in Emergency Medicine, obtaining MRCEM in 2010. She returned to clinical work during the Covid-19 pandemic and has also acted as a GMC associate for the PLAB exam until 2023. Alongside her role supporting doctors through their medicolegal cases, Dr Green has spent 18 months in the underwriting team providing medical policy input. She obtained her diploma in legal medicine (DLM) in 2023 with distinction and was awarded the SceneSafe prize for the highest score.

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Dr Beth Walker

Medicolegal Consultant, Medical Protection

Dr Emma Green

Medicolegal Consultant, Medical Protection

Dr Ed Cantelo and Dr Tommy Perkins

GP's and founders of Medics' Money

Ed and Tommy founded Medics’ Money after a chance encounter in A&E on a gloomy evening. With Ed’s PWC chartered accountancy background prior to medical school, he’d been helping out countless colleagues with their tax returns and associated questions. Tommy and Ed were both doing this more and more frequently until it became apparent that a broader platform was needed. At an office in Chichester, Medics’ Money was born.

Today, Medics’ Money serves to empower doctors with up-to-date and useful guides on topics such as claiming professional expenses and checking your tax code. Simultaneously, when things become slightly more complicated (as they often do) they wanted to be able to vet and promote the very best specialist medical accountants, IFAs, and mortgage advisers, and match them to each individual doctor. Through their unique algorithm, doctors can select exactly what they need help with, and they will be matched to the most suitable adviser. Medics’ Money has helped well over 6,000 doctors to get the very best specialist advice, taking their reach well beyond the A&E ward where Tommy and Ed met.

Medics’ Money have since cultivated a podcast which has had 38,000 downloads per month and run a wildly popular ‘New to Partnership’ course teaching new partners in GP practices everything they need to know about running a business.

Your first year as a UK doctor - common scenarios