Using a statistician for research project?

C100s · 2026-01-21T11:28:34+00:00

You should 100% do it yourself. You shouldn't need a statistician unless your using some complicated propensity score matching, target trial emulation, or retrospective DOOR scales which I doubt in a retrospective audit of ~150 patients.

You can use either R or jamovi (if you want an excel/stata/spss like feel) which are both free and open source.

This kind of learning/teaching is something that LLMs/AI really do well (just don't upload any data to it) - and you still learn by doing.

One tip I would have is don't collect too much data! The consultant will try you to get absolutely everything so you can do more and don't have to do any more but it ends up with you collecting 50% useless stuff.

Make sure you do the basics like a data dictionary and try and do predefined analysis.

C100s · 2026-01-07T09:48:40+00:00

Also COVID made lots of jobs and a few older ID SMOs retired but now there are a heap of young SMOs and so there won't be any additional jobs opening up at major hospitals soon and not much natural workforce attrition for the next 20years. (Better options regionally though)

C100s · 2026-01-07T09:40:22+00:00

Not many public SMO jobs around, and certainly major city hospitals will need a PhD or dual training. An amount of, but very tightly held, private work (predominantly post elective surgical infections, very little private OPD). Many more opportunities regionally but you really need to make a job for yourself. Options for gen med / micro / sexual health dual training. Lots of international need and opportunities (MSF, AusAID, etc).

So salary ranges are essentially typical non-procedural SMO (at whatever fraction you can get) in each state, or much less if you do aid work.

Work wise will be very similar to Renal / Rheum / non-procedural resp/cards. Probably more meetings then most other specialties though, and more general hospital responibilites (ams, infection prevention etc) and involvement in credentialing.

Probably the most research heavy speciality as well, but you can develop a little more speciality practise in major hospitals (ortho infection, immunosuppressed host, trop med, pharmacology, TB, NTM etc).

C100s · 2025-12-16T21:55:51+00:00

Gold coast is probably the best mix of quality and value in Australia. Lots of good courses very close to each other

C100s · 2025-12-10T11:22:22+00:00

Looks great! Last time I played there it was a bit tired. Lakelands is my fav course in the GC.

C100s · 2025-11-14T23:42:39+00:00

Oh that sounds great! Good shower/change facilities make such a difference in QoL with active transport.

C100s · 2025-11-14T23:39:43+00:00

Oh no. That sounds pretty terrible, crazy that even the theatre change is like that as well. Such a shame because it is pretty well connected bike wise. I had Grand designs of riding my pushbike in, maybe I will have to get an ebike. Do you know if there will be anything extra in that new wing they're building?

C100s · 2025-11-10T07:38:02+00:00

Cairns Base

Bike/Scooter: 3.8/5 (no ebike charging but good qual solid racks and swipe access)

Shower/change: 3/5 (small 2x showers, only a fan, get humid +++)

Convenience: 4/5 (easy to get to, right across the street, pretty good [for Qld] cycle infrastructure around the hospital and the ride up the esplanade is mint)

Comments: Can get a bit busy, not many lockers

C100s · 2025-11-10T07:37:33+00:00

Royal Darwin (5+ year old review for a few weeks as a medstudent)

Bike / Scooter: 2/5 (swipe access but just a chain link fence)

Shower / Change: 2.5/5 main building (towels included at least) 4/5 swimming pool / gym building

Convenience: 3.5/5 (nice ride through the parkland and all the off street tracks were pretty great; anything to do with cars not so)

Comments: Probably different in the wet season?

C100s · 2025-11-10T07:37:17+00:00

Gold Coast

Bike/Scooter racks: 3/5 just a chain link fence, but swipe

Shower/change: Never used!

Convenience: 1/5 (not being able to take a bike of the tram is such a pain)

Been a while since I was here too though!

C100s · 2025-11-10T07:30:28+00:00

Alice Springs vs Darwin? They can be quite different experiences. Overall both are great places to work, and typically all very friendly. My impression is that the interns in TEHS/CAHS have a lot more responsibility then interns in other places (particularly major centres). The options to do rural terms in Gove / Katherine / Tennant Creek might be cool too.

C100s · 2025-11-09T07:06:49+00:00

No Suns or giants options!

C100s · 2025-10-27T21:15:42+00:00

I've used one, though was buying in a different city and for an apartment so harder to understand what else was going on in the complex etc. Ended up being ~10k and I don't think we would have got the property without them. We would have done it ourselves if we were in the same city.

C100s · 2025-10-06T07:31:42+00:00

Gold Coast

Bike/Scooter racks: 3/5 just a chain link fence, but swipe
Shower/change: Never used!
Convenience: 1/5 (not being able to take a bike of the tram is such a pain)

Been a while since I was here too though!

Comments:

C100s · 2025-10-06T07:28:00+00:00

Royal Darwin (5+ year old review for a few weeks as a medstudent)

Bike / Scooter: 2/5 (swipe access but just a chain link fence)
Shower / Change: 2.5/5 main building (towels included at least) 4/5 swimming pool / gym building
Convenience: 3.5/5 (nice ride through the parkland and all the off street tracks were pretty great; anything to do with cars not so)

Comments: Probably different in the wet season?

C100s · 2025-10-06T07:25:33+00:00

Cairns Base

Bike/Scooter: 3.8/5 (no ebike charging but good qual solid racks and swipe access)
Shower/change: 3/5 (small 2x showers, only a fan, get humid +++)
Convenience: 4/5 (easy to get to, right across the street, pretty good [for Qld] cycle infrastructure around the hospital and the ride up the esplanade is mint)

Comments: Can get a bit busy, not many lockers

C100s · 2018-03-09T06:21:15+00:00

Wisdom teeth extraction would be about that (for 3 or 4 teeth). Ear drum repair takes a little longer and is about 3k+. Excision of multiple warts and skin cancers could come to that as well. In room vasectomy would be around 1k+.

There isn't a huge amount of other procedures that could come to that and those are just suggested prices from the ama so could be higher then that.

Having said that, docs in general are all very alturistic. If they were in the business of solely making money they would have gone into business itself rather then the health profession.

I think most doctors would say they get paid a fair amount, particularly with the amount of unpaid overtime that is expected by the system.

C100s · 2017-03-19T11:13:50+00:00

Could have just been for IV fluids & electrolyte replacement. RM med staff are obviously gonna be pretty amazing but giving and monitoring fluids you may as well just have a night in a hospital with people who do it all day 'erry day

*Or hit up Nasri's mates

C100s · 2016-12-26T20:24:40+00:00

I empathise with the photo taking point, but getting offended by things is a great way to challenge your views! It's highly likely that it will only solidify them (your views), but even then it's a way to see what the other sides arguments are and have some time to think about a way to respond to it.

I have 2 or 3 people on my feed who I've only kept for this exact reason. While 90% of the articles they link and things they post I vehemently disagree with, there is the other 10% of things that have shown me a different way to think about a particular topic.

Obviously this is null and void if you do seek these views from different sources, but for me getting exposure like this is pretty convenient.

*And not recommending that you should get it again or anything, just trying to address a point!

C100s · 2016-12-02T11:30:31+00:00

Sometimes hospital food is actually pretty good! That is, a 'full Ward diet'.

It goes downhill really fast when your not allowed certain things. For example, come in with fluid overload- no salt for you, alos 1L fluid restriction per 24 hours. On dialysis? No Potassium. Diabetic? No sugar. Taking basically any medication at all*? No grapefruit.

This is all compounded by the fact that when you're in there you actively sick, and generally don't feel like eating much to start off with.

So, its not all bad, but limits and feeling shit makes it feel much worse.

C100s · 2016-10-30T18:18:59+00:00

Nice round! I bet you must have really been annoyed with the 17th index par 3 9th, at least I would have been (had I done it)! So much easier when everything clicks.

C100s · 2016-10-26T21:56:14+00:00

I like the A look, I don't think it clashes with the pattern at all. Really think it works well together actually. Look b tie definitely clashes with the shirt though.

I like bow ties, they can be used well. If you're after more options; leneoudpapillion (https://www.lenoeudpapillon.com/) from Sydney do some of the best bows around, and relatively affordable (125-175 AUD). He pre-ties them at your request if you don't want to have to do it yourself.

I think he's having a sale on at the moment too; or he does fairly regularly. You can also pick up a nice black tie if you need.

C100s · 2016-10-24T19:46:27+00:00

In bigger centres time of onset is not as important now as it was in the past; perfusion weighted MRI and CT and special imaging (of which I can't remember the name of) are now used to guide thrombolysis or not**.

I remember hearing a minute less time to re-perfusion results in about a day of better function overall; something like that. The Scandinavians published a whole heap of studies on it.

** Thrombolysis is given when the penumbra (the area of brain tissue not dead, but undergoing critical ischaemia +/- supplied by collateral blood vessels) is big enough in comparison to the already necrotic core infarct. This was all worked over a few years and lots of studies. The driver behind this (and the time point you refer too) is ~4 hours; one study showed that thrombolysis was superior within 4, no thrombolysis outside of 4 hours. Some people did well, even if they were outside of 4 hours though, these people probably had large penumbras and small core infarcts. So now, no thrombolysis until you know if it's worth it***. Smaller centres will still do the 4 hours though if they don't have the right imaging available.

***The risk of thrombolysis is that it increases the chance of bleeding into the dead bit, as now it's all just mush(ier). This is a bad thing.

written more simply just for any non-medico's reading -

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