Newly qualified doctor salary
= Β£32,398 for 40 hours a week.
Divide by 52 weeks. Then by 40 hours is Β£15.57 an hour.
So Β£4.13 above the new minimum wage. Despite 6 years of medical school and circa Β£75,000 of debt.
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@TheBMA
Really happy to say I got the job! Iβll be joining the Imperial team as a Consultant from Feb 2022! Splitting my time between the ED and ICU π all the hard work has been worth it!
#nhs
#Doctor
#thursdayvibes
#London
Just finished my last ever shift as a registrarβ¦
6 years med school
2 years of foundation
9 years of specialist training
DONE!
It feels really weirdβ¦
No longer a
#JuniorDoctor
β¦ but still the original
#mo
Γ«tmedic
#NHS
#Doctor
FRCEM achieved!!!!!!
No more exams⦠FFICM & FRCEM all done!!
Whooooop!
FFICM, FRCEM, MB, ChB, PGCERT, FHEA
ππππππππππππ
#NHS
#Doctor
#Medical
And did them whilst working during
#COVID
Medical degree = Level7 qualification Masters level or professional doctorate MD in USA the MBBS nomenclature is just historical. As per OFQUAL.
Most doctors also have a BSc from intercalating.
They have 5 years minimum of clinical related knowledge prior f1.
Pay them!
I am more and more concerned for the medical students and doctors at the starting their careers.
There is a clear difference between doctors and PAs.
We need to stop trying to convert PAs into Doctors.
Want more GPβs & Consultants? Train more doctors.
With the issues around Doctor, surgeon, anaesthetist etc not being protected but associate titles being considered for protection, we need to change our degrees to MD.
Align with rest of world. Keep professional identity. Medical Doctor being in your degree.
@TheBMA
At a time when our professional identity is eroded a change from MBBS to MD would help secure our professional title & identity.
UK MBBS is a level 7 qualification as is USA MD. We use nomenclature for historical reasons only.
UK research MD could become DMedSci π§΅
#NHS
I find it odd, that at a time where complexity in healthcare is increasing and people are sicker. The government chose to create less trained healthcare workers, dumb down medical degrees, & fight with doctors whilst the organisations who should pushback just wave it through.
@Shep73David
@TheBMA
The pension is much worse than it was.
Many people get bonuses. Many donβt work lots hours for free. Many donβt have such high responsibility levels. Many get other perks alongside pensions.
So yes. Thereβs a pension. Thereβs also many perks not given to doctors.
@DacreJane
@DHSCgovuk
I remember you coming to
@TheBMA
house in 2016 & informing JDC that your tanks were no longer on our lawn during the contract dispute.
Sad day.
Again, I am not sure this is the
@BMA_JuniorDocs
fault. theyβre very open to talks.
Any harm lays at the feet of the government
@gazzy_uk
@TheBMA
Not all doctors work weekends or nights. Some work 40 hours a week in hours which do not generate extra remuneration.
Those who do work those antisocial hours should get more⦠just like electricians.
The salaries are lower than many western countries at all levels.
Inhaled some breakfast and now canβt stop coughing but scared everyone will think Iβm Omicronβd but instead Iβm actually croissantβd π₯
#dangerousBreakfast
1) lock down 2) Open mass vaccination centres operating 24 hours a day in central well connected areas e.g use closed clubs/stadiums & employ from hospitality sector to staff it 3) Train dentists/dental nurses/vets/vet nurses/aestheticians 4) vaccinate!
#nationallockdown
#vaccine
@georgie777
@AFCRhys
@TheBMA
I was working in the icu looking after people who were incredibly sick.
Working on Covid IcU was a privilege but incredibly difficult work. Both physically and emotionally
On way to work a night shift, so maybe missed it, but has lock down ended? So many people out, some with tennis racquets!? THE ANSWERS NO! Go home! You may be young & have some protection but your 50 year old Dad does not! Stay @ Home too many have died!
#Covid_19
#NHS
#london
Again. If doctorate of clincial sciences programmes for PAβs are to be opened up in Europe. It is vital for protection of our professional identity to change MBBS to the US MD (which are both level 7 qualifications) nomenclature.
@TheBMA
@Doctors_Vote
@TheDA_UK
What have I learned.
Donβt ask questions on Twitter. It isnβt worth the headache.
HCP have genuinely lost any ability to debate anything.
I swear this is partly what is wrong with all professions at the moment, we canβt just talk to one another.
Our spiky neighbours need your help. Drill holes in your fence to let them roam free and find food! Dry cat food is a good shout if you want to help fatten them up and a source of fresh water. Carful when moving leafs and bushes at this time of year!
@HedgehogCabin
#hedgehog
Itβs very clear that this cannot continue if we wish to have a medical profession going forwards.
Other countries are out performing us on pay and working conditions.
We want our doctors to stay? Pay them.
@doctor_oxford
It is a risk.
How can they be allowing this. To be on the specialist register is a lot of training and exams. The Nurse or physio will in no way have achieved the same level of competence.
I wouldnβt want my parents to be looked after by a consultant who wasnβt a doctor.
@saralivadeas
@sandycann2
@EUrologyReg
Saying the gentleman in b1 in a clinical context where others may hear could have been for confidentiality. Also they may have just met 12 new patients and remembering new names is difficult. In what context were they saying this
Just challenged someone giving out leaflets demanding we stop all testing. I was told A&e was closed over COVID
#wherehaveibeenworking
?
Also I should be ashamed for killing people in ICU.
#NHS
#COVID19
#COVID22
#Doctor
Also said I was a student Dr - obv looking young!π
@LouiseWhittake7
@trentconsultant
Itβs being on the medical rota at consutlant level. Without being on the specialist register. This is really shocking
The
#NHS
in crisis isnβt new!
Unable to recruit/retain staff yet only 4.5% rise given.
A&Es treating patients in corridors, but bed numbers fell.
More Drs & Nurses needed but bursaries cut.
What else can we say!?
@SteveBarclay
time increase pay, staff & funding
@TheBMA
Itβs time to change MBBS & MBCHB etc to MDβ¦
And
current UK MD to DMedSci.
We need to make degrees an nomenclature clear to patients with all the new roles.
Time to lobby parliament?
@TheBMA
#nhs
@NHSEngland
@NHSImprovement
@gmcuk
Just seen the most frantic Fy1 (proudly wearing ID) on the train trying to get to same hospital dancing between trains. Tried to tell him the other train would be slower but looked at me as scary Londoner talking to him on the train.
MD ie medical doctor ensures that medical practitioners of all genders are less likely to be constantly Misidentified by ensuring their title is part of their degree.
It highlights our profession clearly at a time when there are increasing numbers of new practitioners & titles
Change current UK MD to DMEDSCI or other level 8 equivalent.
We need to take the professions identity seriously. It is what helps give the patient confidence in who is treating them.
@TheBMA
@DHSCgovuk
@ShaunLintern
@DHSCgovuk
@TheBMA
So a discussion about�
Hospital estates - nope
Stopping MAP/ACP scope creep - nope
Non rotational training - nope
Improved CEA - nope
College & GMC fees paid - nope
Indemnity paid - nope
More study budget - nope
More training places - nope
So if not pay or above then what?
@EarlGirls
@DCHomos
Or just pay people in the service industry a living wage rather than having them desperate for a hidden charge on the customers bill
@ClareGerada
Also one more thing a number of your tweets often sound derogatory to ED Juniors. Just to remind you, many ED regβs have more medical experience than GPs in their first few years after cctβ¦ not every βjuniorβ is junior in experience; please try to be a bit more respectful.
So itβs okay for the private sector to fuel inflation giving >6.5% pay rises and bonuses.
But, not okay in the public sector!?
A healthy work force powers the economy. The
#NHS
ensures we have people fit for work.
@RishiSunak
double standards I think!
@TheBMA
@theRCN
1:5 deaths are due to sepsis. I am not sure if this stat is totally helpful. In the UK most elderly people die of sepsis - The old mans friend was pneumonia. Not every Infection is sepsis but at the moment it seems we MUST treat every infection as if it is.
#bacterialresistance
@ClareGerada
Clare, I really feel you should take up the offer
@DrOKaneAgain
made to attend LRC.
I wonder, if perhaps some shadowing in ED at 3am or acute medical take on Saturday would perhaps bring some light to the current hospital issues & help you formulate solutions with us?
It makes it clear who and what your profession is.
Medical practitioners would be protected and Medical doctor would be your degree.
MBBS is level 7 therefore this is an easy swap to US etc nomenclature. Australia have done it.
@TheBMA
We need to define roles. Scope of practice.
Finally we need to accept the only way to access GP & medical/surgical etc Consultant positions is after completion of a primary medical degree followed by foundation then CESR/CCT training alongside the relevant post grad exams.
Always makes me sigh to hear that the ED just admit everyoneβ¦ the data from our ED is last week we only admitted 18% of all attendancesβ¦ 82% of people being sent home or using ambulatory pathwaysβ¦
Offer needs improving.
@TheBMA
What would get it over the line?
1) SPA status quo.
2) Shorter pay scale further with more front loading. 10 years to max point.
3) If further money cannot be given direct to remuneration the pay GMC, College Fees, increase study budget
Thoughts?
It brings us into parity with the rest of the world. Australia having recently made the change.
It makes it clear to patients who is treating them with clear understandable nomenclature. It highlights a standard has been achieved by the practitioner.
@ronhekier
ATLS in general is quite out of date re trauma care. Very slow to adopt new and more physiologically based Resus.
In 2012 they were still advocating cold wet salty water π which continued until very recently
@QueenRoleo
@TheBMA
The best the to do would be to just up lift everyone.
Consultant starting pay is β¬230,000 in Ireland. Itβs Β£93,000 in England.
And this is why people are leaving at senior and junior levels
As we stand there are barely enough educational opportunities to train our doctors to be consultants and GPβs, without trying to train PAβs to be a similar level.
This is even more so when you take into account that our PA colleagues do not have the same training at University
@wiggs1234
I think ACCPs have a role in the icu. I do not think ACCPs should be flying solo on the IcU without direct medical supervision of a senior registrar on site and a consultant on site or at home