Pulse to launch platform for GPs considering next career stage

Pulse is launching a new platform for GP trainees, newly-qualified GPs and those considering the next stages of their career.

The platform will be launched on Monday 4 August, and will provide all the essential news around jobs and recruitment, as well as analysis and advice, columns from experts and those who have stories to tell around their own career paths.

It will also feature special reports and series that will help GPs to consider the next stages of their careers.

We will be kicking off with a quiz where you can determine what is the best portfolio career for you. This (tongue-in-cheek) questionnaire will direct respondents to articles on 16 different careers, ranging from an expedition doctor to a sports medic, from a prison GP to a CQC advisor. The series – sponsored by the MDDUS – will detail what qualifications are necessary, the expected pay, the amount of hours that need to be committed and the positives and negatives of the role.

Future reports will look at life as a GP overseas, what international medical graduates need to know about working in the UK and a guide to embarking on a successful locum career. We are also hoping to launch webinars to help GPs find jobs, or provide advice on the options open.

There will be a fortnightly newsletter, with the highlights from the previous two weeks on Pulse Careers. . For free unlimited access to Pulse, and our newsletters, please register here.  

This follows the successful launch of a white paper on the recruitment and unemployment crisis by Cogora, the publishers of Pulse, which examined the reasons why GPs are struggling to find work at the same time as practices are understaffed. You can find all of Pulse’s coverage here.

If you are interested in finding out more about Pulse Careers, or would like to write for the platform, please get in touch with the Pulse editor-in-chief, Jaimie Kaffash at [email protected].