Reconnecting with Purpose: Exploring Career Challenges and Rediscovering Professional Passion (RTT5JUN25)

AvailabilityPlaces available (course only available for users whose main occupation is foundation training or core specialty training (st1-st4) or general practice training (st1-st4) or higher specialty training (st3-st8))  Add to basket
SubjectSuppoRTT (Supported Return to Training)
DescriptionSometimes time away from work makes us re-evaluate our choices. This one-day workshop is an opportunity for returning trainees to explore their professional motivation and reconnect with why they chose their career path or specialty, or indeed reconsider whether it is now right for them.
Additional information

If you have ever found yourself questioning why you do the job you do, and feeling disconnected from the person who made that career choice in the first place, this workshop is for you. Come and meet others who have felt similarly, and reconnect with, or re-design, your career aims and aspirations. This is a relaxed, informal one-day workshop. The emphasis will be on exploring how you feel about your career in a non-judgemental environment. This day is completely independent from any discussion with faculty from your school.

In advance, please:

• complete https://www.viacharacter.org/survey/account/register It is free to complete and your report will be emailed to you.

• review the list of values in the pre-course info and identify your top 3-5

• print out the Balance Wheel

Please ensure you join from a ‘confidential space’ where you can participate fully (both sound and video on).

 

Joining Instructions

This is a virtual course, the joining instructions for the virtual meeting will be added to the documents section (above) before the course. Please ensure that you are able to access this before the course so that you are ready to join on the day.

 

Booking cancellation

Participants must make every effort to attend courses they have booked. If your availability changes after booking, please cancel your place through Maxcourse as soon as possible. This will release the place for colleagues on the waiting list.

If you need to cancel within 1 week of the course or the course has started and you are not able to attend, please email england.lsfdcourses.yh@nhs.net to give your apologies.

VenueVirtual (Zoom), - Virtual  View details
Date & timeThursday 5 June 2025, 10:00 to 15:00
LecturerDr Susy Stirling  View details
Target audience

This course is restricted to trainee doctors and dentists who are taking time out of training or who have returned to training within the last 3 months. IMG trainee doctors may also attend within their first 6 months of working within the NHS. (IMG = International Medical Graduate.) Please only book if you meet these criteria.

Mandatory: Dentist, or Doctor, or Public Health Professional

Course styleWorkshop
CateringNo catering
CPD points0.000
CostNo charge
Aims

To reconnect with your purpose and rediscover your professional passion, in light of time away from training

Objectives

The workshop is interactive and participants will engage in both solo reflection activities and some pairs/small group work. Pre-session completion of questionnaire and online report strongly recommended

Learning outcomes

• To explore possible impact that any change in personal circumstances might have on motivation for professional role

• To think through any concerns returners might have about the role they are returning to

• To reconnect with career and specialty choices

• To speak with confidence about their time out of training

• To engage in a safe learning environment at a time when (for some) learning might seem more challenging than in the past, and to build self-confidence in doing so

• To network with other returners and create supportive alliances.