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As a BMA member , you have free access 24/7 to a wide range of medical careers information, including top tips, guides and handbooks on how to chose a speciality, training recruitment process and timelines, job vacancies and useful links to other careers sites.

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Top tips
Members - login for top tips on choosing a specialty and delivering compelling presentations

Guides and handbooks
Medical specialtiesMedical Specialities - the way forward
Obtain the best overview of the career choices and prospects available within the medical profession; it includes pay and conditions of service, working abroad and flexible training.

Becoming a doctorBecoming a Doctor: entry in 2009
Medicine is a popular career choice and competition for places at medical school is very high. This guide answers the most commonly asked questions about becoming a doctor.

Junior doctorsThe Junior Doctors' handbook
Guide to the main contractual issues that may arise in junior hospital doctors’ employment and on which they may need to seek advice.

disability equalityDisability equality in the medical profession, 2007
This report discusses disability equality in the medical profession and looks at the accessibility of medical careers for disabled people and the support available.

signpostingSign-posting medical careers for doctors,2003
This report highlights the situation regarding career advice provision for medical students, doctors in training and career grade doctors.

academic medicineA career in academic medicine, 2007
This guide will give you an overview of the academic training opportunities which are available if you are keen to become a researcher or educator of the future.

pharmaceutical physicianThe pharmaceutical physician, 2005
This booklet has been produced by the Pharmaceutical Physicians Group Committee of the BMA to help doctors contemplating a career in pharmaceutical medicine.

Need for changeMedical student finance, May 2008
A report by the Medical Students Committee on levels of medical student debt and the need for change in the area of medical student funding.

Junior doctorRole of the junior doctor, June 2008
This report defines the role of junior doctors and looks at the impact that training and working environment changes in UK medicine have had on the role of junior doctors

Training recruitment process and jobs
Modernising Medical Careers
Latest news and information on the application process to help you prepare prior to completing your application. Further updates and news will also be posted at www.mmc.nhs.uk

Speciality Training Recruitment 2008
Links to individual country and deanery information

Advice on applications
Advice for applicants to specialty training in 2008

Enhancing quality: promoting consultant expansion across the NHS
Evidence shows the need to expand consultant numbers in many specialities

Junior doctors’ training in England
Junior doctors can now apply for training posts in England that start in August 2008.

Junior doctors’ training in Scotland
Recruitment and selection to specialty training in Scotland 2008

Junior doctor’s training in Wales webcast
Junior doctors who are considering training opportunities in Wales as part of the current recruitment round are encouraged to listen to their colleagues' views, prior to making an application.

Deaneries as employment agencies: possible junior doctor claims
To apply pressure to the Department of Health and the deaneries, and in the interests of improving conditions for junior doctors, the JDC is looking for junior doctor members who may have a claim against a deanery for failure to comply with the employment agency legislation.

Job vacancies - what specialty positions are available?
If you are keen to pursue a position in a particular specialty and are trying to find a job, or would like to find out how many positions are advertised regionally, then the links below may prove useful.
Useful links
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