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If an FY1 junior doctor worked a regular 9-5 Mon-Fri 37.5 hour rota, they’d make £22,956 a year.
The Civil service grad scheme pays £27,000 and accepts applicants with a 2:2 in any discipline.
Tell me junior doctors aren’t getting ripped off…
Going to medical school was by far the worst decision I’ve ever made but I’m fairly good at it so I’ve somehow managed to a point where I’m too far through to quit, not bad enough to fail but get almost zero satisfaction from doing it
Turns out my model for the PR exam didn’t have an anal fissure as I’d confidently announced to the OSCE examiner - the model was just split from over use 😂
Proudest moment was being a posted outside the main gates of Balmoral on the day HM Queen Elizabeth made her final journey.
Then finished on a high with Grampian Pride last Saturday.
I’ve had a good run.
It’s great that CPR is taught in schools but are we failing the public by not also teaching that death is a natural process and CPR/advanced healthcare interventions aren’t always the answer?
@LeylsTurk
I really don’t understand why payroll departments think allowing an employee to go without pay for a month is an acceptable solution to an error made my the organisation but it seems so widespread within NHS culture
Sad to leave ICU today, working in the unit during the pandemic was a real eye opener. I’ve been so fortunate to work with a fantastic group of people. The knowledge, skills and teamwork of the staff there is truely phenomenal.
Taking a secondment from my part time
#TeamIPCU
post at RCH to work full time as a HCSW in
@AberdeenICUEdu
wasn’t quite what I had in mind for my summer holidays. Really excited to be able to help in any way I can and hopefully learn some things along the way!
Taking a secondment from my part time
#TeamIPCU
post at RCH to work full time as a HCSW in
@AberdeenICUEdu
wasn’t quite what I had in mind for my summer holidays. Really excited to be able to help in any way I can and hopefully learn some things along the way!
Led an afternoon of consultations today and at the end the supervising GP said to me “you’re going to make a really good doctor Robbie”.
I constantly that I’m not cut out for med school so this was a massive boost.
Really excited to have the work from my elective at
@SydneySHC
accepted for an oral presentation at the
@BASHH_UK
conference in Bournemouth this summer
Turns out I kinda like general internal medicine just not the general medicine you see at big hospitals. GIM at rural hospitals/DGHs is actually really interesting.
@DrDavidRouse
15 months to go and if nothing else, I’m too stubborn to quit now. I think you’re right though, it’s not going to make me happy long term so I’ll need to start planning an exit strategy
Very sad to finish today after having the most phenomenal experience on my elective at Sydney Sexual Health Centre. I’ve learned so much in the time I’ve been here and hopefully got some interesting data for a conference abstract
Addiction is an illness not a crime. The world has changed massively since the early 70s yet the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 remains in force. When will the government realise that current drug policy does little to reduce drug use or protect lives.
Heard back from the Royal Navy, I didn’t get offered a Medical Officer cadetship this time but the selection board are going to reconsider my application in October.
Hoping for a better outcome second time round 🤞
@MdSlutty
I worry that traditional attitudes about professionalism might be used as a tool to systematically exclude miniority groups - the lack of diversity in medicine is the real threat to the public’s confidence in the medical profession. 2/2.
@Xe4f145d16s2
Or we could avoid overgeneralisations and ensure teaching responsibilities are given to most appropriate individual in each circumstance - whether they’re background is medical/nursing/AHP
Sat my last Y2 OSCE then found out my poster has been selected for one of the rapid fire Q&A sessions at the RCPsych International Congress. Today is a good day!
Don’t think I appreciated how debilitating fatigue can be. I got diagnosed with Lyme Disease last week and even a ordinary day’s worth of activities totally knocks it out of me.
Sitting the
@FFLMUK
DLM exam today. Seven months of preparation, 4,782 pages read and god knows how many cups of coffee - all I need now is a bit of luck.
@SHLdotUK
Our findings were interesting. We saw a decreasing HIV positivity rate was observed among MSM (men who have sex with men), while HIV positivity increased among heterosexuals over time.
Sitting on Eilidh’s bench doing some exam prep. The irony that we spent more time at the pub than on campus studying when you were here. Miss you lots x
Got a worried call from mum. She’d somehow came to the conclusion that the reason I haven’t been feeling well is because I’d caught HIV but was too scared to say (I don’t).
This isn’t passmed, not every MSM with night sweats, fatigue and loss of appetite has HIV 🤦🏻♂️😂
@medstudentali
I think you’ve missed the point, an undergraduate medicine course is 5-6 years long compared to a 3 year BA/BSc in other disciplines. Surely it follows that what is essentially a medical grad scheme should pay more?
Sometimes I wonder if the reliance on eConsult/telephone consultations has went too far.
How many subtle signs are getting missed and are can we afford to skip that “quick listen into the chest”?
Got a pleasant surprise this morning while rushing to get ready for uni - 61% in my dissertation and awarded a MSc with Merit in Psychiatry from
@cardiffuni
@joelgiblett
@Dr_JSA
@drcolinm
@bbcnickrobinson
@BBCr4today
I agree that there has to be some consequences for fraud but that is for the criminal justice system to deal with. The GMC is there to protect patients not to hand out tougher punishments who happen to be doctors
I’m very disappointed to hear that that
@UKFPO
has decided not to recognise medical students going above and beyond to attain additional degrees or publications in the recruitment process for FY1 junior doctor posts. (1/3)
I asked a guy what he does and he started explaining what a foundation doctor is and I didn’t have the heart to stop him, so now if anybody asks I work in finance 😭😭
@ClareGerada
@aashfaque14
@Cleverclog67596
@ExplosiveEnema2
@rcgp
I’m struggling to understand how HCA plus a 2 year MSc better prepares somebody for primary care compared to a 4-6 year medical degree and at least 12 months at FY1 level?
When I started as a HCA the only training needed was BLS, manual handling and an hour lecture on IP&C.
I know fixing the broken system that is the NHS isn’t going to happen overnight but is having computers and printers that actually work too much to ask?
Today I…
Found out I’d comfortably passed finals
Watched two RN Hawks fly over Dartmouth
Spliced the main brace on the quarterdeck of BRNC
What a way to finish off 4th year of med school!
People are describing the Queen’s passing as a ‘tragedy’. If being able to do the things you love doing up until the very end then dying comfortably at home surround by loved ones isn’t the definition of a good death, what is?
@DrMcWeb
@DrBenLovell
Is there any other profession where people feel compelled to take a year out their career pathway just so they can get married?
Why do doctors just accept that’s the way it is?
Got a date for the
#COVID19Vaccine
. Thank you
@NHSGrampian
- kicking off the COVID vaccination programme within a week of the vaccine getting MRHA approval is an absolutely phenomenal feat!
#ProudtoBeNHSG
I’m not the complaining type but trying to access an NHS service and it’s almost impossible.
A triage call within 48 hours and they only make one attempt at calling before you need to re-refer (and go back to the end of the list).
Being a patient isn’t easy these days.
Admitting defeat and going into the office to get a colleague to reverse park the van after I’d being trying and failing for 10 mins probably wasn’t my finest moment.
I feel like I might have earned a rather large cake fine on my next shift back.
@MissK_Arch
Brilliant way to showcases the diversity of the team but I guess there’s the temptation that they’d be used as a bank of unofficial interpreters.
Thought I’d be nervous for my OSCE tomorrow but I’m actually just glad to have an excuse to put on smart clothes again. Spent the majority of the last year either wearing gym shorts and t-shirts 😂
Had a brilliant day at the
@STASHH_UK
virtual away day. Some really interesting talks on advocacy, the future of HIV care and DoxyPEP.
If you’re a student or foundation doctor interested in sexual health and HIV, I’d highly recommend signing up to STASHH!
What an incredible day! So inspiring to hear from so many clinicians who
#loveGUM
🧡 Another massive thank you to
@BASHH_UK
for working with us to organise this and shout out to
@DewsnapClaire
for being the perfect chair ✨
You can feel fulfilled in your job still be paid a salary which adequately compensates you for the responsibility, training and sacrifices you’ve made to get there - they’re not mutually exclusive
@DoctorPonglenis
I was an NHS Consultant for 35years and loved my job. I would hate to see us getting obscenely large salaries as much as I'd hate us to be paid very poorly. We have the huge perk of an interesting fulfilling job.Many people are in poorly paid unfulfilling repetitive boring work.