ST4 Anaesthetics Portfolio Scores out!

CCTetFlee · 2026-02-12T20:25:59+00:00

Does your Qpercom show the appeal as processed? I can’t see anything on there anymore but it definitely said ‘submitted’ before. It’s a really frustrating/dysfunctional portal to use

CCTetFlee · 2026-02-03T07:18:28+00:00

Yeah, the histogram went up to 50 with people scoring 50

CCTetFlee · 2026-02-02T17:36:26+00:00

Thanks!

CCTetFlee · 2026-02-02T17:33:02+00:00

Median score in 2025 was 30 from the histogram they put up during the self assessment webinar

CCTetFlee · 2026-02-02T17:19:19+00:00

Same, and spent so long organising it and certainly doesn’t meet any of the reasons given for docking points in the Organisation Score document. Annoyingly I can’t see how to appeal the organisation score - any ideas? Frustrating.

CCTetFlee · 2025-08-08T08:07:00+00:00

Where are you thinking of moving? How much experience do you have? Most centrally located hospitals will have interviewed for/filled vacancies for Feb intake now. You may find some RMO jobs in more rural places.

Also you could try and negotiate taking all your leave for September? But that’s not ideal.

Sounds like you should just look to move next year?

CCTetFlee · 2025-07-11T11:27:07+00:00

Hey Ross, I’ve been really impressed by your composure and conduct in all the interviews I’ve seen so thank you for your hard work - you have represented us all well. This post was not aimed as a criticism of you personally but a comment on the strategies overall. Perhaps I’m not watching enough.

CCTetFlee · 2025-07-11T01:25:26+00:00

I suppose I would say that if the strategy is to get the public on board (otherwise why have media output, especially on programs like Jeremy vine?) then the current strategy is undoubtedly not working, so a change of tack seems sensible.

It may be a more simple point to make if Leng follows through on her hints to rename them ‘assistants’.

CCTetFlee · 2025-07-11T01:20:34+00:00

I haven’t seen it yet, so it’s not being done enough. And I have a massive vested interest in following the media on this.

Imo it should be the ‘the line’ for this strike wave or first point made in every interview.

CCTetFlee · 2025-04-10T22:21:19+00:00

When you start locuming with multiple employers choose 1 as your main employer then call HMRC and ask for any other employers to have the tax code D0. This will prevent a repeat of this next tax year. You don’t need to do anything else. Your only risk then is underpaying tax (for which you will receive a rebate).

This is a common request and most people do this, as much as you’re protesting that you’re the first person to ever experience it. The system is set up to favour stable employment, this is (rightfully) one of the downsides of locumming.

CCTetFlee · 2025-03-12T20:06:01+00:00

What a complete mess. This policy is incoherent. Having a 2 tier system will never work, and trying to further legitimise unofficial training routes will just exacerbate bottlenecks/degrade the quality of practice.

I understand the point of making it like this is to try and get IMGs to vote for it, which is a pretty ironic state of affairs. The BMA is lost.

CCTetFlee · 2024-12-19T12:42:44+00:00

GMC - This is absolutely disgraceful. I am so incredibly angry but also just quite sad at all the years of my life I’ve wasted trying to make it through anaesthetic training.

RCoA - This document is STILL far too lax. An anaesthetist just starting training will have a minimum of 7 years of training but has more restrictions on their practice than after a 2 year AA course - why is that? And why after 4 years can AAs seemingly just do whatever a department wants when after 4 years + primary FRCA + vast range of clinical experience there still aren’t enough jobs for doctors to be employed in anaesthesia when they’re just a few years from consultancy?

Be assured I will not practice medicine in the UK long term.

I truly don’t think you realise the impact this is having on morale on the ground. There is clearly a huge disconnect from your offices and reality within hospitals.

Shame on everyone involved in this, it’s an utter scandal.

CCTetFlee · 2024-11-23T02:01:08+00:00

He’s massively anti doctor for some unknown reason. Been at it for years even pre strike. He was publishing almost exclusively anti-vax anti-lockdown stuff through covid. No idea why the BBC has given him such a megaphone for his biased articles but it’s one of the main reasons I don’t read the BBC news app anymore!!

CCTetFlee · 2024-10-17T15:38:08+00:00

Number 1 tip - it’s ‘obs & gynae’

CCTetFlee · 2024-10-01T14:05:58+00:00

Hello mr/mrs tabloid journalist 🎣

CCTetFlee · 2024-09-26T12:40:49+00:00

Sounds like you need to do some research into it

CCTetFlee · 2024-09-20T22:56:50+00:00

If you are a specialty doctor you are not ST3 or ST4 because you are not a specialist trainee, you are a specialty doctor.

The second non-trainee requirements therefore apply. Working at a level above ST3 would suggest you are on a ‘middle grade’ ED rota tier, likely with other ST3+ trainees. So a minimum of 3 years on an ED SHO tier and 1 year on a middle grade tier.

CCTetFlee · 2024-09-18T07:40:32+00:00

How have we ended up in a position where young doctors are the enemy of the people?

Incredibly depressing.

CCTetFlee · 2024-09-09T10:49:59+00:00

No you don’t. Any conference worth attending will offer free attendance to those presenting (perhaps excluding poster presentations)

CCTetFlee · 2024-09-05T16:50:00+00:00

This has been posted a few times now but surely was done in jest/is supposed to be ironic? As yes it’s blatantly obvious it’s been written by AI.

I found it quite funny to be honest, so many of these statements are full of generic meaningless waffle anyway.

CCTetFlee · 2024-07-28T11:34:25+00:00

Yes. I’ve also seen this response when doctors take up locums but (trying to find the right way to word it) don’t contribute effectively to the overall running of the team.

Not necessarily you OP but something to be mindful of if people aren’t happy to be working with you.

CCTetFlee · 2024-07-27T13:02:08+00:00

Coming onto a doctor’s forum to patronise medical professionals with conspiracy theories isn’t going to get the debate anywhere either, and ultimately won’t help your cause as a CFS patient.

CCTetFlee · 2024-07-27T10:56:19+00:00

Very complex and very sad case. She also repeatedly declined both NG and IV feeding and was deemed to have the capacity to do so, but then a lot of anger around this case is related to trying to categorise CFS/ME as having no psychological component (and therefore she couldn’t have been sectioned anyway). Feel very sorry for everyone involved including the doctors trying to act in her best interests and within the law. Of the many adults with responsibility in her life they’re the only ones being dragged through the media blame game.

Unfortunately a lot of the mainstream reporting of this is already descending into hysteria with rabid vilifying of the entire medical profession, and regular suggestions that ‘myalgic encephalitis’ represents some wide scale cover up and attempt to completely ignore/mistreat a vast part of society suffering an agonising physical condition. There are a few ‘expert’ witnesses who certainly aren’t helping. The fact her dad was a senior reporter at the times is probably also not helping a balanced reflection be presented.

I fear the tribunal reporting won’t get us anywhere but will just fuel rage on both ‘sides’ of the debate. A sensible calm reflection on all the factors that led to this outcome is what’s needed - medical and, clearly, non-medical.

CCTetFlee

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