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Our range of courses covers all areas of Personal Development.
All Medicology courses are specific to healthcare and the NHS. We believe that the NHS is a unique environment
requiring specific insight into its unique issues. Trusting your development to a commercial training company would be
much like having your BMW serviced by the Citroen garage.
Every Medicology course can be brought in-house
with costs starting from £1,650 + VAT per day plus expenses for up to 25 people, based on you providing the facilities
and us providing the expertise.
Starting with developing a greater understanding of people, this course then translates this into a range of advanced interpersonal skills such as advanced communications, negotiation skills, building rapport, developing effective teamwork & relationships, choosing appropriate language, fostering an environment of respect, as well as developing self-awareness. A busy and invaluable course designed to make you more effective in all of your dealings with people.
No matter what your position in medicine, being successful means engaging with, influencing and sometime negotiating with a wide variety of professional colleagues, from those assisting in front line care to those holding the power to re-define services. For healthcare leaders, the importance of influence is crucial, as leaders naturally influence others. This intensive, one-day course is designed to enhance your personal effectiveness, professional impact and credibility by equipping you with advanced skills in influencing, without you having to resort to coercion and manipulation simply to get things done. Furthermore, it provides you with an enhanced ability & strategies to engage people in the issues of today whilst also allowing you to successfully negotiate with all manner of professionals.
It’s so easy for those to whom assertiveness doesn’t come naturally to feel manipulated, bullied and sometimes not quite in control. You probably find yourself taking on too much because it’s difficult to say no and often you feel that everyone else comes first. You might also suffer low self esteem and a lack of confidence despite your exceptional level of knowledge. On the flip side, you probably wouldn’t want to be thought of as rude or forceful. We understand this fully. We believe that you don’t have to become assertive to influence or a bully to get things done. However, you do need an additional set of skills, coupled with the self-awareness and confidence to know when and how to use them. Simply put, we can give you behavioural choice and help you step outside of your normal shoes in a competent manner just when the circumstances dictate. If that sounds useful, or indeed essential to effective health delivery, then you’d probably be surprised to know that upwards of 25% of doctors feel this is an area they need help with.
Most people would not even consider taking an exam without acquiring the requisite knowledge, skills and insight in preparation for it and therefore why would you approach perhaps one of the most important events in your life, getting the right consultant job, with any greater uncertainty than there needs to be? You wouldn’t. In fact, we know that you’d want to absolutely ensure you stood the best possible chance of success and that is why we have developed the Medicology approach to consultant interview success. It’s your future and so we don’t believe you should take any more chances than necessary.
The Medicology approach consists of the following:
If none of the above dates are suitable than have you considered 'Consultant Interview Coaching'
Course Date Already Full?
If you would like to attend a certain course date but it is already full, we do have a waiting list in case of last minute cancellations. If you would like to be added to the waiting list for a certain date, please ring us on 01332 821260. Thank you.
Audit is a fundamental tool for improving both quality and performance in health and yet many healthcare professionals have never had any formal audit training, often resulting in a loss or dilution of the significant benefits it offers. Commencing with the core skills necessary to run successful audit projects in either the clinical or service domains, we then focus on ensuring that audit results are built successfully into an improvement strategy that delivers consistent attention to factors contributing to results. This course is a highly comprehensive, practical programme designed to equip you with the very best knowledge, skills and ability in this vital competency.
The course is suitable for anyone who is involved in clinical audit; doctors (both junior and consultant), nurses, PAM and managers and the course content is relevant to all healthcare settings.
The NHS is likely to suffer a funding shortfall of around £15 billion in the three years post 2010/11 and consequently cost improvement can now be seen as a continual process, not an episodic activity. More importantly, it is vital that cost improvement is approached in an intelligent, collaborative manner with full regard for the necessity to deliver clinical excellence. This course enables those with responsibility for cost improvement to gain maximum returns with minimal negative impacts, whilst ensuring that patient care and staff morale remain at the heart of the process.
Effective services have sensible consultant job plans that are closely matched to attainment of important organisational objectives. However, those responsible for establishing job plans and holding discussions with their consultant colleagues find agreeing job plans one of the most stressful activities they have to engage in. This reflects the high potential for discourse in the job planning process, especially as we transition from a largely clinically-driven to a more balanced clinical-business-driven environment. This powerful programme de-mystifies the behaviour involved, takes a sensible approach to influencing and delivers a heightened ability to manage end-to-end job planning in a consistent, non-confrontational manner, giving consultants and managers alike the confidence to enter job planning discussions in an informed way with a positive attitude to creating a win-win for all.
The modern healthcare marketplace demands that attention is paid to successfully attracting patients into a service, so that funding follows under Payment by Results. Clinical teams themselves are best placed to develop effective attraction strategies, just so long as they understand the principles of engagement. This course develops the necessary core skills and principles around ensuring a consistent flow of patients and successful long term growth. You’ll find it practical, fast-paced and very productive.
Mentoring medical professionals can be an enormously rewarding experience for both mentee and mentor. Adoption of effective mentoring practises can help individuals develop self-reliance in their learning whilst over-coming unfamiliar challenges with support where needed. This programme provides an effective mentoring framework from initiation to closure, including all of the practical strategies necessary to make it successful.
Healthcare reform to a market environment creates the necessity to engage in active business development in all its forms. Clearly out of the comfort zone of many clinical teams, it is essential that the right skills and approaches are adopted to maximise opportunities whilst minimising risk. This comprehensive course covers everything from identification of opportunities, through the actual business development process and onwards to tendering. Practical, innovative and designed to give your service the edge in a competitive landscape.
Our ability to get on with our peers, manage tension, interact effectively and behave in a productive, respectful fashion is one of the key determinants of organisational performance. This course delivers an advanced understanding of how people are wired, what motivates their behaviour both normally and under situations of opposition or conflict and how to deal with this. Participants gain huge self-awareness into the own behaviour and how this can impact people who are different.
Presentations and teaching skills form one of the core backbone elements of a successful medical career. Faced with a diverse range of scenarios, from teaching staff to interview presentations right through to a presentation of an international multicentre trial, it is surprising that few have ever received any formal training in this vital area. The Medicology Presentation Excellence for Clinical Professionals Course represents a single, intensive day approach to dealing with the core elements of effectiveness in this area, including addressing confidence, fear and nerves to create a competent delivery with presence, planning effectively to put the right content in that really hits home with the audience, understanding the psychology of the audience to take your skills to an advanced level, structuring a wide variety of presentation and teaching types for maximum impact and engagement and more. It’s probably the most comprehensive and effective 1-day course of its type, regardless of how much teaching or how many presentations you’ve made to date.
Project Leadership Skills are one of the critical elements of a successful manager or leader, whether clinical or non-clinical. So much of our time is devoted to achieving projects, changes or initiatives and yet few have ever had any training in how to do this. It's not surprising that so many projects fail to hit deadlines or realise the benefits intended. This focused but comprehensive course shows you how to get projects right from the start, plan them expertly, manage risk and confounding factors and ensure they produce what they are supposed to. You'll reap the benefits from every project you do or participate in.
You're probably successful already but I bet it could feel easier! You might feel like you're struggling to stand still. Is achievement at work at the expense of your personal life? Do you find yourself leaving major projects left to the last minute (and telling yourself you thrive on the pressure)? Feel like you could do more with the right strategies? There are many compelling reasons to access strategies & support and very few are about being poor at time management. Medicology is infamous for running probably the most powerful time management & personal effectiveness courses there are for health service staff. Your environment is unique and so is this course. Packed full of practical strategies to plan & prioritise effectively, manage the never ending influx of work and regain effective work-life balance you will find that we also have a good old plug at what goes on in your head. It's suitable for all manner of staff; senior managers & directors, consultants, juniors, nursing staff and many, many others. Achieve more this year. You deserve it for all your hard work.
Feeling like it's impossible to balance clinical & adminsitrative requirements? Struggling to achieve work-life balance? Does work appear to dominate your life? Seems impossible to fight back the encroaching jungle of priorities and workload? You're not alone. Time Management for Consultants is one of our most referred courses for the simple reason that it makes a lasting difference to people's lives. It's practical, filled with insightful advice about managing load, regaining control, achieving goals more easily and working within today's healthcare environment. We truly understand the context of being a consultant today and that's what makes this course different from any other around.
This isn’t just a train-the-trainer course, it’s the Medicology Train-the-Trainer Programme and if you’ve participated in Medicology training before you’ll know that its output is the kind of teacher/trainer that delivers an exceptional quality of learning in a high impact form regardless of the duration of any learning event. This programme enables you to challenge and stretch learners in a supportive manner that delivers significant behavioural change and adoption of principles and skills taught.
Our comprehensive approach to trainer development includes a bedrock of principles and learning theory delivered initially through a high quality e-learning approach, followed by an extremely hands on 2-day course that will augment and embed the knowledge, techniques, confidence and practical skills you’ll need to be a highly effective teacher and trainer regardless of whether you are teaching a formal skill, conducting small group teaching or delivering a formal presentation to a large audience. Designed to maximise the opportunity for individual practice, development and feedback, the maximum instructor-participant ratio for all practical sessions is 1 to 8.
Learning will be formally evaluated on day 2 of the programme with participants being granted certification at the following levels:
Pre-course preparation will be a requirement.
This course has CPD approval of 12 points for the full training package
Course Date Already Full?
If you would like to attend a certain course date but it is already full, we do have a waiting list in case of last minute cancellations. If you would like to be added to the waiting list for a certain date, please ring us on 01332 821260. Thank you.