Career advice for doctors suffering from chronic illness

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18.02.08

Rhona MacDonald, a remarkable doctor in the UK who suffers from scleroderma, several years ago created a chronic illness matching service which provides an opportunity for doctors with a chronic illness or disability to obtain informal career advice from another doctor.

Read the related article in the MJA. You can head straight to the matching scheme website here.

Rhona graduated in Medicine (Aberdeen, UK) in 1992. She has worked for several charities and non-governmental organisations, such as Oxfam and Medécins Sans Frontières, and has had public health and primary care roles in the developing world. She has been an editor at the BMJ, and senior editor of the student BMJ, and is currently the senior editor of the Lancet Student.

 


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Comments (2)

I wonder what support services there are in Australia for doctors with chronic illnesses. I wouldn't be surprised if there aren't any, and I think a support group/matching service - whatever - is long overdue. Does anyone know what is available in Australia for people with chronic illness or other reasons for not being able to follow the usual career paths?

Posted by Alexandra Stanislavsky | February 24, 2008 11:52 AM

I would certainly be interested in the answer to that question as well. On the plus side, it appears that the BMJ Careers matching scheme is open to doctors from any country, although the advice may not necessarily be country-specific.

Posted by Jonathan Tomaszewski | February 24, 2008 3:28 PM

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