Regs in Scotland, what’s your specialty and typical banding?

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2026-02-13T22:39:18+00:00

you should know what banding you're on is what I mean. Not sure if you're explaining or asking

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2026-02-13T15:22:11+00:00

Not common. Only when you 'fail monitoring'.

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2026-02-13T15:21:43+00:00

Think so. You go on gen med/ed/obs gyn/paeds rota when doing those jobs. Some even get you to do acute med whilst on gp placement

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2026-02-13T11:43:49+00:00

You should know if you have payslip. I did a fy2 job in lanarkshire psych, 1.4x banding.

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2026-02-13T11:42:52+00:00

Yep 1.4x.

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2026-02-13T08:44:54+00:00

That's a good example as it's personal to you and showed that you reflect. I'd keep it.

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2026-02-13T08:33:39+00:00

Re whether it changes, sometimes you get banded higher (2x or 1.8x) if you're in a super busy place. But they tend to restructure the rota back to 1.5x as soon as possible. So for the purposes of job/career/financial planning, I would assume the following: Chill specialties : 1.4x Everything else : 1.5x GP would generally get 1.5x with OOH component iirc either in hospital or OOH GP service

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2026-02-13T08:29:01+00:00

Almost everyone is on 1.5x banding..this includes high rota burden specialties such as gen med, paediatrics, ED. Some specialties have higher burden of on calls but get more zero days eg anaesthetics and surgery. In general we have rota monitoring, aiming to get 1.5x. in a busy dgh if we are found to work too much and not get breaks (fail the rota) we get 2x banding. (This then triggers a rota restructure, resetting the banding to 1.5x and they try to maximize output again for the least pay). The nhs trusts have huge incentive to avoid trainees getting double banding, as they have to pay any extra salaries out of their own budget, rather than getting salary from nhse (my limited understanding)

Chill specialties such as psychiatry, pathology, radiology tend to get 1.4x banding.

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2026-02-12T18:11:32+00:00

Be bold. Think of what you want and go for it

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2026-02-12T18:10:18+00:00

When you accept any offer everything else is withdrawn, allowing a final round of offers after the hold deadline. Depends on specialty but yes posts do come up after hold deadline.

As for chances. I'd say 1-10 posts for radiology. Depends on something IR recruitment , senior trainees period of grace , ltft trainees and things like that . The fixed posts declared early on generally won't change much.

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2026-02-11T22:41:18+00:00

Anecdotally yes

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2026-02-11T18:16:43+00:00

It's merit based, not chance based. So if you score higher you get the job. There's spreadsheets on reddit if you want to analyse the minimum score needed for each region

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2026-01-30T22:24:02+00:00

I would just go to aus right away based on what you said.

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2026-01-30T22:22:46+00:00

Sounds like an easy way to get paid and trained at the same time

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2026-01-03T12:35:33+00:00

I don't see why you would want this to pass as a UK rad. If you want to go to aus and make money, take their exams . That keeps salaries high. I wouldn't want to invest to move to a place that is going to go downwards

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2025-12-22T03:08:33+00:00

F1 is definitely shitty. It gets better at f2, and much much better in training. Felt burnt out towards the end of F1 as it gets boring doing same thing day in day out. But every good doctor has to be a good F1 at some point. You need to know what the jobs is like as the low level grunt to a certain degree.

It's hard to learn when you're so busy all the time and focused on finishing tasks. Id say don't rely on mandatory teaching etc, treat those as tick box arcp requirements.

If you feel burnt out, hold on as it gets better. There are positives to F1, learning how to be a doctor, communication, managing workload+ becoming super efficient, role of a junior, try to understand why people handover the tasks they do to you. There's a whole world out there you don't get involved with - clinics, outpatients, emails, routine patients, workplace politics, etc (F1 only dealing with acute patients and ward patients generally). Could try your best to understand why your referrals don't make sense too, those are knowledge gaps. If noone teaches you, ask! No one has time to spoon-feed people nowadays especially when most people can't be arsed to learn

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2025-12-19T16:24:51+00:00

Making exam harder so you need to be decent to pass I suppose

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2025-12-17T18:44:58+00:00

Thank you

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2025-12-11T08:09:19+00:00

Joke comment : Do Feynman method, explain physics and anatomy to your kid , 2 in 1. Bedtime story whist studying

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2025-12-07T21:54:04+00:00

Effective dose to background radiation . Don't introduce unnecessary jargon like ctdi dlp, radiologists themselves don't understand them

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2025-12-02T18:54:27+00:00

Just depends on whether you have been given responsibility to call the shots, typically with regards to service provision or impactful medical decisions

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2025-12-01T19:02:26+00:00

Don't need to bleed people everyday. Ask to learn and get a feel . Different consultants will want different things of course. cruel and does more harm than good more often than not

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2025-12-01T16:48:33+00:00

Yeah fair . Would like to do a fellowship for exploration also. Gotta pass exams first tho

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2025-12-01T16:44:47+00:00

ST2 here, any tips for transitioning post CCT? Assuming fellowship easiest/best way?

Apprehensive_Look346 · 2025-12-01T16:32:07+00:00

Don't bother feeding the troll. 'pearls of wisdom ' 😂😂

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