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[Michelle Briggs @prof_briggs]

A huge welcome to Dr Gabbi Lindergard - our new NMAHP Academic Clinical Lecturer (NIHR ICAT) @MFT_MCAC @iatmcr @cchmiel1 @MFT_Research looking forward to supporting your post-doc clinical academic career🎉👏🏼. @yorke_janelle @LydiaBriggs91 wishing you well too. Exciting times

[St Paul’s News 💙 @StPaulsNews]

Some great news! Tobi Summerville was invited to present her work 'Evaluation of a simplified non-evasive method for the diagnosing microbial keratitis' at the ICAT Academic Clinical Fellows —Prize Presentation and won the prize for the best presentation!! Well done Tobi!👏👏👏🏆

[ICAT Programme @ICATProgramme]

Check out our new #ICAT clinician scientist careers page! Overview of clinical & academic training in UK & Ireland https://t.co/neQ8zpR8XG

[livUni_ICAT @LivuniIcat]

Academic leadership ICAT event - Wednesday 27th February 2019. Radisson blu. Looking forward to seeing you.

[Lancaster ICAT @LancasterICAT]

Final Chance to apply for ACF posts @LancasterUni @LancasterUniFHM @LancasterMedSch via oriel https://t.co/31sZZfxjLH closing date 1st November 2023. https://t.co/QZWelTZ5hn Good luck

[Amy Gadoud @agadoud]

Six ACF posts in Pall Med. Apply via https://t.co/YTTk8PjtZ2 Closing date 1st November

@APMJuniors @APMPostTweets @apm_trainees

Lancaster post https://t.co/A31MzyvGiM
also available at King’s College London, Leeds, Leicester, Newcastle and Sheffield

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[Vanessa Muirhead @MuirheadVanessa]

Are you interested in a clinical academic career? @DentistryQMUL will be hosting a NIHR DCT with a Dental Public Health/Paediatric Dentistry research focus, an ACF in Orthodontics or Restorative Dentistry and a postdoc CL from Sept 2024. See Oriel link: https://t.co/WQ8aVSW9QM.

[Dhruv Parekh @drdhruvparekh]

Academic Clinical Fellows - University of Birmingham. One of the largest and successful programmes around - so many opportunities, great academic and clinical training. Esp #Anaesthesia #resp #ICM #Acute Med 😃 With ⁦@BacrUob⁩. DM me for more info https://t.co/9azNrsUYXa

[𝐊𝐚𝐭 @picucat]

Great post for anyone thinking on applying to academic training, I did both afy/acf and benefited from doing so, before I then digressed from it to focus on PICM training.

@jakepmann describes considerations to making the application so well here #academictraining #medicine

[Mustafa Al-jarshawi @MustafaAjlan]

Looking for a colleague med student/ SFP/ACF trainee collaborator who are interested in working on a small research project focused on cardiology-related environmental impacts in healthcare. #MedTwitter #Cardiology #Cardiotwitter #AcademicTwitter

[Jan Hansel @VirtueOfNothing]

An excellent how-to for aspiring ACF applicants.

Just two things I would add:

1. Don’t be discouraged from applying if you haven’t planned it years in advance, if you have the spark you can do it.

2. Be creative.

(Worked for me)

[Jake P. Mann @jakepmann]

✍️How I approached ‘white space questions’ in ACF applications:

1. For “Describe your suitability for…”-type questions: state three traits/characteristics that would describe the ideal candidate (e.g. ‘communication skills’, ‘breadth of knowledge’, ‘team player’). Then give a (short) example for how I demonstrate each of those traits. [Obviously only picking things I have a good example for.]

2. Always select the most unique example (i.e. the one the fewest other people will have) e.g. won a national prize for xyz, instead of ‘doctor of the week’ (even if I felt more proud about the other one) - this also applies for “describe one project in detail” questions

3. Be specific about what I did so examples are understandable to someone who doesn’t know me

4. Check the person specification & shortlisting criteria - if it specifies teaching / leadership then make sure I have mentioned those under relevant headings

5. Double-check my CV to make sure I haven’t missed something really important i.e. do I get across 'who I am'

6. Be as specific as possible about research project plans, whilst also acknowledging that they are just ideas (e.g. “If appointed I want to work on immunology of biliary atresia because… I’m particularly interested in this gene… Have discussed this idea with… Needs further preliminary data etc…)

7. Get someone else to read it (ideally someone who roughly knows my CV so they can say if I've missed something out).

I realise this is unhelpful at this stage for anyone applying this year but would be unfair to omit:
7. I planned a long way in advance. I had been looking at the person specification for ACF job applications since 4th-5th year medschool, which helped make sure I had stuff to say in the boxes.

If anyone would like me to have a read over their questions for applications, just drop me a message.

I'd be interested to hear if these suggestions are similar to others' thoughts @dnepo @picucat @LankanMiller @_leilaellis @rhysdore @o_farrant @VirtueOfNothing @DrAmalinaBakri

[Mao Fong Lim 🧠🖌️(he/him) @maotweets]

@ak411cam Thank you! I'm an ACF- so it'll be run-through general adult training for me in Cambridge/Pboro.

Trying to apply for PhDs!

[UK IR Trainee Research Collaborative (UNITE) @IRadResearch]

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