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Doctors Are People Too: How Research Can Inform Policy and Practice
- one hour workshop led by Professor Jennifer Cleland, LKCMedicine.
Wednesday 30th September at 09:00 BST / 16:00 SGT ​

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Matching medical workforce supply to health need is a global issue. Although the absolute number of doctors in many countries continues to grow, the medical workforce is unevenly distributed by locality and some specialties are more popular than others. The precise nature of this issue differs by context, but in many countries, there has been a reported decline of doctors who choose careers in community-based specialties, general practice/family medicine and mental health relative to hospital-based specialties. Drawing on a 10-year interdisciplinary and multi-method programme of UK-focused work as well as the wider literature, in this talk I consider how individual characteristics (e.g., gender) and preferences (e.g., for work-life balance, for personalised training) are related to the career choices of medical students and Foundation/junior doctors. I will conclude by discussing the implications of this contemporary evidence for governments and healthcare organisations in relation to recruiting and retaining today’s generation of doctors.
​About Professor Jennifer Cleland
Jennifer (Jen) Cleland is Professor of Medical Education at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.  She worked at the University of Aberdeen, UK, for nearly 20 years, starting as an Honorary Clinical Lecturer seconded from the UK’s National Health Service and gaining full Professorship in 2011. She was the first recipient of the UK’s only Endowed Chair of Medical Education Research, the John Simpson Chair later in the same year, a post she held until coming to Singapore in 2020.  She joined LKC as Full Professor with tenure in January 2020, to lead the Medical Education Research and Scholarship Unit, LKCMedicine.  She took up the concurrent post of Vice Dean (Education), LKCMedicine, in September 2020.
​Read more about Jen here.

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