Recent Blog articles from Tips and Tricks for Your Successful Career

What matters the most to parents of future healthcare professionals? How do they see the career life of their children and the challenges ahead of them? We asked Tom, father of our Alumna Payton, about his views on education, experiential learning, and the Czech Hospital Placements Program. Payton - who currently studies at San Diego State University - shadowed our mentoring teams in Emergency Department and Neurosurgery Specialized Center during summer and gained personal recommendation on behalf of the University Hospital in Motol.

Thanks to social media we are able to connect with like minded people all around the world who inspire us in the field of health care. One of them is Dominik Klug who decided to help young students to make the most of their internships in hospitals through a set of advices based on his personal experience. Why does Dominik use social media and posts about his career? He says: "I hope to create value as well as making an impact. I also want to encourage people to follow their dreams, no matter if other people say that it can’t be done. Just do your thing!" Get inspired by the #CHPProgram.

In the previous #CHPBlog article we focused on choosing the right mentor for your clinical work experience. What personal qualities should the right mentor possess? It is extremely important who is going to become your mentor, as this person can strongly influence your view on the profession itself – in a good but also in a bad way. The first impression may disrupt your passion for medicine, nursing, dentistry, paramedicine, physical therapy or another field of healthcare. Make sure that your mentor is a person you can truly follow.

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” said once Benjamin Franklin. The benefits of shadowing and seeing the job reality of any profession for yourself are enormous. But how to choose the most important person - your mentor? Your mentor is an extremely important person for your career path´s start. It does truly matter who will become your mentor, since he or she can influence your views on the job you´d like to do one day yourself. Believe or not, this first impression highly affects your future. The 3 key points are: Professionalism, honesty and mentoring skills...

An Indecisive Doctor, an Unprofessional Dentist, an Insensitive Midwife, an Uncommunicative Physiotherapist or an Unqualified Nurse – These Are Not Qualities You Are Looking for Once Coming as a Patient.