The Clinician's Survival Guide
Do you struggle with practical aspects of working as a clinician, such as finding the right job, time-keeping, inefficient systems and medico-legal risk?
This podcast is about addressing these issues: Every Tuesday, in under 15 minutes, we take-on a topic and discuss it's implications. We then explore what you, as a working clinician, should do about it.
The Clinician's Survival Guide is about making you as efficient as possible, and helping you find practical solutions to the challenges you face.
It's time you had a more fulfilling career as a clinician.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 14 minutes
- Episodes
- 38
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Educational events: Should You Attend?
How good are you at getting it right when deciding whether to attend an educational event? An Educational Event is coming up. Don't just go because it's happening. Don't just go 'in …
Keeping Active in the Workplace: Strategies for Clinicians
How physically active are you at work, and is work contributing to your health or illness?
In this episode of The Clinician's Survival Guide we explore:
- That this is certainly a problem a…
Managing the Demanding Patient
If you've been a clinician for any significant period of time, you will know exactly what I mean when I refer to the demanding patient. But how much time have you spend discussing how…
7 ways Clinician's Can Prevent Complaints
This episode is about what YOU should do to protect yourself from receiving patient complaints.
Complaints are an unpleasant reality of working as a clinician. Whilst they may serve i…
The Clinician's Guide to Dealing with a Patient Complaint
Whether you're unfortunately enough to be dealing with a complaint made against you, you fear a complaint might be forthcoming, or you just want to be prepared for when that happens to …
Why Complaints are NOT a great way to Improve Patient Care
This episode is about complaints: what they are, and what they are not. It debunked some of the popular narrative surrounding complaints, such as its role in improving standards and co…
The Clinician's Survival Guide: Recap E1-10
This episode revisits the journey so far, providing a reminder of some of the key learning points from previous episodes. The purpose of this is to:
- Aid recall
- Help internalise important…
Overworked Clinician: What to do about it
This is the second half of our discussion about feeling overworked. In this part we focus on trying to adopt an approach to resolving the problem:
- What are the different factors you hav…
The Overworked Clinician: Making sense of it
Do you feel overworked? Or, shall we call it overwhelmed, tired out, not coping with it, working beyond capacity? Whatever you call it, you may be concerned about it's consequences: b…
Time Management: Does running late really matter?
"So what if you keep running late, it's part of the job... you're a professional, get on with it".
What's your response to this statement?
In this episode Dr Munir Adam takes a strong v…
Negotiating better pay as a Clinician
You ask for a pay rise, or perhaps you negotiate a salary during application, but you get a 'no' in reply. You don't get what you asked for. What do you do?
Following on from the previ…
What you should be paid as a clinician
Whether you're applying for a job, having an annual review or just feel it's time you had a pay rise, you need to know what to ask for when it comes to money.
In this episode of The Clin…
GPs struggling to find a job: Analysis and Solutions
It may be affecting you personally or may just be something you've become aware of through conversations & the news: GPs finding it a struggle to get jobs!
For it to be a challenge in b…
Time management: One-Problem-Only in Difficult Consultations
The patient has multiple issues, you ask them to rebook to discuss those you don't have time for, and they... they resist. What do you do?
If the previous episode of The Clinician's Sur…
Time Management: Implementing One-Problem-Only in Consultations
If you find yourself struggling with time management due to dealing with multiple problems in a single appointment, you need to do something about it.
This episode hits at the survival c…
Job hunting: Choosing the right place to work
This episode is about finding the right job.
It takes the position that clinicians don't always make the wisest choices when looking for a job, and there are numerous examples of this …
To Survive - Watch YOUR attitude
YOUR attitude has a LOT to do with what happens next.
LISTEN to this before moving onto further episodes.
This episode highlights the key role that our own attitude has on our success and…
How The Clinician's Survival Guide will help you
Do you encounter challenges and limitations that prevent you from delivering the high quality of care you aspire to? Difficulties and systems that prevent you from having fulfilment in…