About
Dr Caroline Elton is a chartered psychologist with dual registration in occupational and counselling psychology. She combines a rigorous academic training (undergraduate degree at Oxford University; Ph.D from the Department of Academic Psychiatry, University College London School of Medicine), with an empathic and insightful approach to the provision of careers support.
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About
Dr Caroline Elton is a chartered psychologist with dual registration in occupational and counselling psychology. She combines a rigorous academic training (undergraduate degree at Oxford University; Ph.D from the Department of Academic Psychiatry, University College London School of Medicine), with an empathic and insightful approach to the provision of careers support.
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In her role as Head of the Careers Unit at London Deanery she set up and lead a service that helped doctors in over 70 hospital trusts across the London region. She devised and implemented a ‘triaging’ system in order to establish which career support approach would be most appropriate for each client.
During her time at London Deanery she personally coached over 250 doctors – many of whose career decisions were complicated by significant health and/or performance concerns. She has received exceptional feedback for this work.
Caroline has also written widely about medical careers in professional and academic publications. She is a regular speaker and facilitator at conferences and training events throughout the United Kingdom and has an excellent reputation as a facilitator. Following an Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) grant to the USA, she established a link with Professor Nicole Borges – one of the leading researchers into medical careers in the USA.
In 2014 she set up CPD – Career Planning for Doctors. Working alongside a carefully chosen group of associate colleagues, CPD offers 1:1 coaching; Career Planning Workshops as well as Faculty Development initiatives.