Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
This blog post is based on this popular English proverb:
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
My colleague has already made a guideline on it here:
https://naseersjourney.com/2017/07/05/how-to-find-information/
I would just like to add on some points to this.
As International Medical Graduates, we are used to being guided by people directly. In my home country, we never had anything online and mostly guidance was given face to face. This applied to schools and medical colleges too(we applied to schools/ colleges our friends and relatives were studying in).
However in the UK, everything is based on facts and figures. Everything is online - from how many doctors applied to a particular specialty to the price of milk in your local store.
For us, it is hard to understand this and we may go for face to face advice given by uncles and friends living and working here (and in some cases, surprisingly in their home countries but state "they know everything"). As a result, some of us make decisions which may cause problems in developing our career.
I have mentioned a message for such people in this blog post:
http://omarsguidelines.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/my-message-to-imgs-who-are-discouraged.html
Here are some common examples I have heard:"This agency is very trustworthy therefore I have taken a job with them- My friend who started work with them just 2 weeks ago is very pleased with them"
2 months later:
This agency is horrible and I cannot work for them however I have signed a contract with them for one full year and I cannot resign from this post.
"My uncles brothers friends sister informed me that I do not have to provide any supporting documentation and I applied for my visa as advised by her and got rejected"
" My consultant (who has never been to the UK) informed me that there were no jobs in the UK therefore I continued working in my home country and feel I have not gained anything and want to come to the UK"
" I did not read the contract because it was 10 pages long and I did not understand what the terms in it meant so thought it would not mention anything important"
All of these people have access to the internet. They all have access to an amazing website known as Google - however none of them used it properly.
My point here is that everyone can become their own guide by searching for information on their own. Our blogs do help but given the dynamic situation of training posts (like new training posts and jobs coming up which even us, as doctors working in the NHS are not familiar with), it is hard for us to be track of them and it is best for the International Medical Graduate who is interested in a particular field to search for such information on his/her own.
Going back to the first line of this blog, some doctors prefer to get a cooked fish in their plate as they are used to this way. However they can change this habit easily by learning how to seek information and knowledge on their own.
PS: I am still more than happy to guide you however it is advisable that you should try to get as much information as possible by doing your own research (by searching on this blog, on Google and then confirming all the information you have got by checking the official websites).
If you learn how to fish, you will be very successful in your career in the UK. But as mentioned before, my colleagues and I am more than happy to cook it for you- however this may not help you in the long run.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
My colleague has already made a guideline on it here:
https://naseersjourney.com/2017/07/05/how-to-find-information/
I would just like to add on some points to this.
As International Medical Graduates, we are used to being guided by people directly. In my home country, we never had anything online and mostly guidance was given face to face. This applied to schools and medical colleges too(we applied to schools/ colleges our friends and relatives were studying in).
However in the UK, everything is based on facts and figures. Everything is online - from how many doctors applied to a particular specialty to the price of milk in your local store.
For us, it is hard to understand this and we may go for face to face advice given by uncles and friends living and working here (and in some cases, surprisingly in their home countries but state "they know everything"). As a result, some of us make decisions which may cause problems in developing our career.
I have mentioned a message for such people in this blog post:
http://omarsguidelines.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/my-message-to-imgs-who-are-discouraged.html
Here are some common examples I have heard:"This agency is very trustworthy therefore I have taken a job with them- My friend who started work with them just 2 weeks ago is very pleased with them"
2 months later:
This agency is horrible and I cannot work for them however I have signed a contract with them for one full year and I cannot resign from this post.
"My uncles brothers friends sister informed me that I do not have to provide any supporting documentation and I applied for my visa as advised by her and got rejected"
" My consultant (who has never been to the UK) informed me that there were no jobs in the UK therefore I continued working in my home country and feel I have not gained anything and want to come to the UK"
" I did not read the contract because it was 10 pages long and I did not understand what the terms in it meant so thought it would not mention anything important"
All of these people have access to the internet. They all have access to an amazing website known as Google - however none of them used it properly.
My point here is that everyone can become their own guide by searching for information on their own. Our blogs do help but given the dynamic situation of training posts (like new training posts and jobs coming up which even us, as doctors working in the NHS are not familiar with), it is hard for us to be track of them and it is best for the International Medical Graduate who is interested in a particular field to search for such information on his/her own.
Going back to the first line of this blog, some doctors prefer to get a cooked fish in their plate as they are used to this way. However they can change this habit easily by learning how to seek information and knowledge on their own.
PS: I am still more than happy to guide you however it is advisable that you should try to get as much information as possible by doing your own research (by searching on this blog, on Google and then confirming all the information you have got by checking the official websites).
If you learn how to fish, you will be very successful in your career in the UK. But as mentioned before, my colleagues and I am more than happy to cook it for you- however this may not help you in the long run.
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