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Skills for being/becoming a doctor - Coggle Diagram
Skills for being/becoming a doctor
Motivation and genuine interest in medicine
It requires a lot of hard work to get into medical school
Its a tough carrier and is only harder without any interest in it
The opportunity to help people
Academcis
Variety of sectors so lots of choice in specialisation
Variety of patients illnesses and solutions
Working with and meeting different people
Awareness of your own strengths and weaknesses
Knowing when there's someone else is more suitable to do something
When you need help
When you're not sure about something
Reflection
Ability to reflect
Learn from errors
Insight into your own ability
Learn how to improve
Personal organisation
Being able to manage your time and patients
taking responsibility for your work
Conscientiousness
Academic ability
Being able to understand conditions and how they work and how to manage them
Being able to study and do research
Being able to work hard
Being able to/ enjoying learning - medicine is a carrier where you are continually learning
Problem solving
Managing patients expectations
Managing patients disease/illness/injury
Palliative care
Dealing with uncertainty
uncertainty of next patients
uncertainty of effectiveness of medication
Uncertainty of if judgements you make are right
Managing risks and dealing with problems
need to make the right choices for patients
Particular with complex cases
Day to day challenge
Explaining the risks to patients so they can make their own informed choices
Taking responsibility
Learning from errors
Staying on top of work
Conscientiousness
Striving for better
motivation to help people
taking responsibility for your own actions
holistic care
Insight in your own health
Need to take care of yourself to be able to effectively help others
Requires hard work and can be very tiring
Taking care of your mental health and well being
Communciation
In a multidisciplinary team
Braking bad news
Explaining illnesses to patients
Explaining treatment options for patients
Taking a history
Explaining/suggesting healthier lifestyle choices
Good raport
Teamwork
Communication
awareness of ability and knowledge
Awareness of strengths and weaknesses
problem solving
respect for others
Respect
respecting patients
Respecting colleagues
building good rapport
Resilience
Dealing with difficult situations
Breaking bad news
Long hours
Hard work
Stress/ Pressure
Empathy
When breaking bad news
Useful for communication to patients
Can help understand the impacts of a condition on a patient and understand what would be helpful in managing them
Good raport
Honesty
Being honest to patients about their options
Being honest about a patients situations
Explaining risks
honesty about not knowing things
Honesty/awareness of own knowledge and capability and when you need help
awarness
what patients expect/ want
what patients are willing to do
when you don't know the answer
when you need help
when there is nothing more to be done
palliative care
on strengths and weaknesses
The rough with the smooth
uncertainty
not knowing the answer to everything
no cure
Rewarding
making a genuine positive impact to someone's life
death
saving life
stress
Hard work
time management
breaking bad news
learning more
Change
Changing population
changing sicknesses
changing solutions
changing systems/technologies
Learning
changing ethical difficulties
ever changing industry