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
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 [404]
- COVID-19 Psychosocial Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
- COVID-19: Your Mental Wellbeing
- Coping with Coronavirus [404]
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
- Mind Tools: 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
- B Well: 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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