Friday 22 September 2023 | The Discovery Room, The Studio, Birmingham

9.30am - 5.30pm

30 places | £150 | FULLY BOOKED

We are pleased to invite senior neurology registrars to the very first neurology specific consultants course. Aimed at preparing you for your first consultant role and demystifying the job. This in-person 1 day course will cover a range of topics including interview and job planning, CPD, staff management, money, errors and medicolegal issues.

We will be joined by a faculty of consultants including both experienced consultants and those who have recently taken up a consultant job, who bring with them a wide variety of experience and expertise. Small group sessions will allow you the opportunity to get to know the consultant faculty and generate discussion in an informal setting and we hope you will join us for dinner afterwards.

The course will include lunch and snacks.

Chairs: Anna Nagy (London), Christina Englezou (Birmingham)

Programme

Small group sessions

1. Preparing for practice: Identifying jobs, what to find out, preparing for interview, job planning

2. Skills for success: working with colleague and teams, CPD and revalidation, staying on top of admin, supervising and looking after junior colleagues OR Academic skills: how to create an academic job plan, applying for funding, managing workload with mixed academic/clinical commitments

3. Money matters: writing a business case, private practice, pensions

4. Errors and complaints: human factors, avoiding complaints, responding to complaints, medicolegal aspects

Faculty

Sian Alexander (Gloucestershire), Jason Appleton (Birmingham), Rose Bosnell (North Bristol), Jeremy Chataway (London), Richard Davenport (Edinburgh), Krista Farrell (London), Helen Grote (London), Ghaniah Hassan-Smith (Birmingham), Tom Hayton (Birmingham), Akram Hosseini (Nottingham), Tzehow Mok (Surrey), David Nicholl (Birmingham), Ashwin Pinto (Southampton).