About the CDU

The Career Development Unit has been established across the Oxford Deanery to provide a comprehensive careers service and performance support for all doctors and dentists in primary and secondary care.  The service is available for senior medical students, trainees and all established doctors and dentists at any stage in their career.

The careers service provides local specialty information and career management skills workshops for the Oxford Foundation School. It also provides personal career guidance for those with a career dilemma, including those with health or disability problems.

The performance support provides confidential personal coaching for doctors or dentists who self-refer. The CDU provides guidelines and workshops to help trainers manage performance issues in trainees and also collaborates with trainers to provide help and personal coaching for individual trainees in difficulty.

The performance support service is also available to employing Trusts who can decide to purchase the personal coaching service to help doctors and dentists get back on track following local investigation, NCAS or GMC assessment. The Career Development Unit is also available as source of information and advice to employers.

The Career Development Unit acts as one point of contact for all issues regarding careers, performance and health for doctors and dentists.

The Oxford Deanery Career Development Unit (CDU) consists of a director, Dr Philippa Moreton,a team of CDU coaches and an administrative assistant.

The CDU coaches are senior Deanery consultants and GPs with extensive educational experience who have been trained to;

• provide individual career coaching
• give advice to trainers and employers
• facilitate workshops on:
  • career management
  • helping the trainee in difficulty
  • helping the established doctor/dentist in difficulty.

The CDU coaches

Contact us

• The preferred method of contact is e-mail to
  
  cdu@oxford-pgmde.co.uk
  
  This email is completely confidential as it is automatically routed to the CDU director's home computer which is checked daily.
  
• If you wish to speak to the Director on the phone, please e-mail a contact phone number and preferred times to call.
  
• If you need to send confidential material to the CDU in the post please address to:

CDU Administration Office
The Triangle
Roosevelt Drive
Headington
Oxford
OX3 7XP