SPECIALISTS IN LEADERSHIP, RELATIONSHIPS, PERFORMANCE & WELLBEING
PREPARATION FOR SPECIALIST MEDICAL COLLEGE CLINICAL OR ORAL EXAMINATIONS
CONGRATULATIONS ON PASSING YOUR SPECIALIST MEDICAL COLLEGE WRITTEN EXAM! IT WAS HARD, BUT YOU DID IT!
ONE OF THE VERY FEW THINGS STANDING BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR specialist registration NOW, is the specialist medical college CLINICAL OR oral exam…
Whether you’re about to face the Divisional Clinical Examination for The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), the viva component of The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists’ (ANZCA) anaesthesia exams, or the clinical or oral examination for one of our many other specialist medical colleges here in Australia, it’s normal to feel a little nervous or anxious about what’s coming up ahead.
You have the necessary medical and technical knowledge - your passing of the written exam proved this.
Your day to day performance on the floors of our hospitals is sound - your patient outcomes and feedback from your boss, your team and others that see your work tells you this.
You have taken every opportunity to learn when connecting with your supervisor of training and your mentors within healthcare and medicine in preparation for this significant milestone - you know you’ve put the work in.
Yet:
you know you could be even better,
public speaking terrifies you and you need some strategies to deal with that,
you know presentation skills are not amongst your strengths but they are necessary for you to pass,
the thought of highly experienced examiners watching you and assessing you in action (rather than your answers on a piece of paper) makes you freeze up or lose your confidence when performing actions that are routine to you by now,
you know your interpersonal skills need to be improved if you are to pass, or
the mindset you currently have is blocking your ability to succeed and you need help to make a shift in your mindset, your actions and your performance.
“I know how to do what I am trained to do, but at the actual moment when I am expected to demonstrate that knowledge and skill, I don’t perform optimally.”
Hello Agility can help.
“Great coaches...are your external eyes and ears, providing a more accurate picture of your reality...they’re breaking your actions down and then helping you build them back up again.”
SOMETIMES WE ARE TOO CLOSE TO OURSELVES AND OUR SITUATIONS TO SEE WHAT OUR LIMITATIONS ARE, AND HOW TO GO ABOUT PUSHING PAST OUR BARRIERS TO SUCCESS.
A non-doctor coach with rigorous coaching psychology training and decades of professional wisdom in leadership, relationship, performance and wellbeing can offer you fresh perspectives gained from an evidence base and lived experiences outside of healthcare and medicine (Bozer et al., 2014).
Lai-Ling has spent decades helping executives and leaders at all levels to:
overcome their barriers to public speaking,
confidently communicate,
present information to their audiences in impactful ways, and
build strong interpersonal relationships with their customers, colleagues and communities.
These are human skills that transcend all industries, professions, titles or stages of training. This is how you fundamentally connect and interact with others, human to human. These skills will not only help you lift your confidence levels as you prepare for your specialist medical college clinical or oral exams, they will help you establish solid foundations in your professional practice and in your personal life for years to come.
A non-doctor coach can help you see what you don’t see, spot where you’re veering off course, and help you find ways forward because we’re not focused on your medical or technical expertise. You have a myriad of other support mechanisms for that already. We focus on helping you improve your confidence in connecting and interacting with others, your human skills.
“It’s how good you’re going to be that really matters.”
THE DIFFERENCE
Coaching is where you learn from drawing your own insights. In a coaching conversation, your coach guides you through a goal oriented, solution focused reflective process. Your coach is your thought partner. There is no set curriculum. Coaching is the most customised form of learning you will ever experience and you have complete control of the agenda in every session.
Mentoring is where you learn from drawing upon someone else’s insights. In a mentoring conversation, your mentor provides wisdom and guidance based on their own knowledge and experiences. Your mentor is your thought leader. Mentoring moments are bite sized pieces of wisdom and guidance injected into a coaching conversation designed to heighten the creation of insight in the moment.
Education moments are bite sized pieces of information or learning injected into a coaching conversation designed to heighten the creation of insight in the moment.
Counselling, therapy and clinical psychology reach into your past &/or focus on a diagnosis to uncover and resolve underlying issues to help you move forward. They are historically oriented, problem focused processes. Whilst coaching shares a common evidence base with these disciplines, we acknowledge the whole and capable human being that you are right now. We only lightly dip into your past where necessary to inform how you can move forward. Coaching maintains a future oriented, solution focused stance through the act of goal setting and goal striving. Coaching is not a replacement for counselling, therapy or clinical psychology services.
THE CHOICE IS YOURS
What you do with the insights you gain is completely up to you. You are in control of what you act (or do not act) upon. You are responsible for your own progress and performance. As your partner in performance we are here to provide trusted independent support; but we are not here to do your work or solve your challenges or grab your opportunities for you.
HOW DO I START WORKING WITH A PROFESSIONAL COACH?
Take a look at our most popular coaching offerings below (click on the ‘+’ sign to see the full details of each offering).
Heavily influenced by the Standards Australia Handbook for Coaching in Organisations (HB 332-2011), these offerings have been specifically designed to address the common challenges and opportunities that doctors face today in the difficult, chaotic and complex industry that is healthcare and medicine.
Whether you are seeking a professional coach to work with yourself, your team, a group that you’re involved with, or to assist with a systemic change and transformation across your organisation, we’re here to help.
Don’t worry if you are facing a unique challenge or are on the cusp of grasping a unique opportunity and have different or more specific requirements. Get in touch today and let’s discuss how we can work together on your leadership, performance and wellbeing project.
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Typical reason why people engage in this way: “I feel like I’ve mostly got it, my confidence levels are pretty high. I just want help with some extra perspective &/or strategies around one or two little things that will really solidify my preparation.”
The Details
>> Single session
>> Duration ranges between 1 hour up to 1 day depending on your need
>> Pre-work may be required
>> Suitable for individuals, groups or teams
>> Conducted in person or virtually depending on your location and needs
>> Clear guidelines surrounding the confidentiality of each session
>> If you want to learn through practice and role play in this session, you are required to supply all of the medical equipment you want to use and a person willing to be the patient in your role play on the day
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Typical reason why people engage in this way: “I have a particular area of my performance that I need help with or further development in. I want my learning tailored to me.”
The Details
>> 6 x 60-minute sessions
>> Pre-work required for each session
>> Suitable for individuals, groups or teams
>> Conducted in person or virtually depending on your location and needs
>> Clear guidelines surrounding the confidentiality of each session
>> If you want to learn through practice and role play in these sessions, you are required to supply all of the medical equipment you want to use and a person willing to be the patient in your role plays in each session
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Typical reason why people engage in this way: “I’m stuck but I don’t know why or how to move forward. I just know that something needs to change and I need some help to make sense of everything that’s going on.”
The Details
>> 6 x 60-minute sessions
>> Pre-work required for each session
>> Suitable for individuals, groups or teams
>> Conducted in person or virtually depending on your location and needs
>> Clear guidelines surrounding the confidentiality of each session
>> If you want to learn through practice and role play in these sessions, you are required to supply all of the medical equipment you want to use and a person willing to be the patient in your role plays in each session
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Typical reason why people engage in this way: “We don’t know what we don’t know at this stage, and so we want broad exposure to the human skills that that we need to be conscious of when connecting and interacting with others to build our confidence levels in preparation for our specialist medical college clinical or oral exams.”
Learning Objectives
Understand why human skills are just as (if not more) important to your professional practice as your medical and technical skills
Learn and practice a suite of micro-skills that will help you with your specific clinical or oral exam style (e.g. case study, viva, etc.)
Note that these workshops are not formal practice sessions for your specialist medical college clinical or oral exams. These workshops will specifically focus on helping you acquire and practice your human skills (e.g. interpersonal skills).
The Details
>> Single workshop
>> Duration ranges between a half day to a full day depending on your needs
>> Pre-work may be required
>> Suitable for individuals, groups or teams
>> Conducted in person or virtually depending on your location and needs
>> Clear guidelines surrounding the confidentiality of each session
>> You are required to supply all of the medical equipment you want to use and a person willing to be the patient in your role plays in the practical components of this workshop (the latter may be your study group members or peers undertaking this workshop with you)
REFERENCES
Bozer, G., C. Sarros, J., & C. Santora, J. (2014). Academic background and credibility in executive coaching effectiveness. Personnel Review, 43(6), 881-897. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/PR-10-2013-0171
Gawande, A. (2017). Want to get great at something? Get a coach. https://www.ted.com/talks/atul_gawande_want_to_get_great_at_something_get_a_coach?language=en
Hays, K. F. (2009). Performance Anxiety. In K. F. Hays (Ed.), Performance Psychology in Action (pp. 101-120). American Psychological Association. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1chs4mh.11
Standards Australia. (2011). Handbook: Coaching in organisations (HB 332-2011). SAI Global Limited.
The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. (2023). Anaesthesia exams. Retrieved 07 May 2023 from https://www.anzca.edu.au/education-training/anaesthesia-training-program/anaesthesia-exams
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians. (2022). Divisional Clinical Examination. Retrieved 07 May 2023 from https://www.racp.edu.au/trainees/examinations/divisional-clinical-examination
Hello Agility is not associated with any of the specialist medical colleges directly or indirectly referenced on this website.
Working with Hello Agility in preparation for your specialist medical college clinical or oral examinations does not guarantee a pass result.
LET’S WORK TOGETHER
We’re always looking for new opportunities to work with you remotely in a virtual environment &/or in person at locations within Australia and internationally.
Get in touch and start the conversation today.