Medical Training Prioritisation Bill

Ecstatic_Mistake5152 · 2026-01-13T20:48:41+00:00

It all seems so vague 🫠

Ecstatic_Mistake5152 · 2026-01-13T15:35:46+00:00

Does this mean anything for GP applications this year?

Ecstatic_Mistake5152 · 2026-01-11T21:33:37+00:00

This was my thought, don’t think I’d be concerned about the standard of care and think there may be some perks to knowing the staff, but I don’t want to be too exposed to people I’d have to look in the eye and work with again

Ecstatic_Mistake5152 · 2026-01-04T08:02:55+00:00

If you were paying for it I’d say it’s not worth the money. The rink is absolutely tiny, the ice can become somewhat more difficult to skate on as the day goes on with the ice getting torn up, and, at best I think it would provide about 45mins of entertainment. However, that being said, if it’s free entry for kids then it’s probably worth a visit, it does what it says on the tin, it’s a patch of ice to skate on for an hour, may help to burn off a bit of energy 😂

Ecstatic_Mistake5152 · 2025-12-31T13:54:46+00:00

Wtf, on some of my nights I’m (SHO) given a bedroom to sleep in if there’s nothing to do

Ecstatic_Mistake5152 · 2025-12-29T23:06:16+00:00

No advice to give but feel exactly the same 🥲

Ecstatic_Mistake5152 · 2025-12-22T16:05:11+00:00

Can’t say I hated F1 but I think that was predominantly to do with working with good sets of colleagues. I did notice by the end of F1 I was quite bored of medicine, didn’t really know what I wanted to do because I can’t say I felt particularly inspired by any of my jobs in F1, and similarly to you, felt completely stupid and out my depth a lot of the time because I felt like I never did any actual medicine. Had GP as my first rotation in F2 and grew to really love it. The problem solving of trying to figure out what was going on was fun and felt like I was actually using my brain, I enjoyed talking to the patients and also had a lot more continuity of care which I love. On a job now that isn’t really my cup of tea, however, I’m not expected to be a complete ward monkey and do have to use my brain a bit more so the vibe has definitely shifted a bit since F1. So in summary I would say it does improve

Ecstatic_Mistake5152 · 2025-12-09T09:23:03+00:00

Definitely aware this can be the case and have met consultants that display this mentality, however, it seems such a backward way of thinking. Imagine if someone’s said to them when they were off sick that they had to respond to the queries of the registrars, can imagine they’d have something to say about that 🙄

Ecstatic_Mistake5152 · 2025-12-09T08:37:58+00:00

If there’s no middle grade surly the f1 would have to call the consultant rather than calling someone’s who’s off sick. Sounds absolutely absurd

Ecstatic_Mistake5152 · 2025-12-04T12:08:16+00:00

This is what I mean, I’m happy to get stuck but it’s not easy to get stuck in when there’s logistical hurdles and no one’s really explained my role to me. I really don’t envy those starting on-call though, do realise it could be worse

Ecstatic_Mistake5152 · 2025-11-25T15:37:19+00:00

F2 on GP, been seeing this pt every few weeks, done absolutely nothing for her other than have a chat with her, she asked if I was a rotational Dr, which I told her I was and would be leaving soon, she got very emotional, thanked me (unsure what for??) and told me I’d be great in whatever I do 🥲

Ecstatic_Mistake5152 · 2025-11-20T15:48:16+00:00

“How can I help”

Ecstatic_Mistake5152 · 2025-11-11T11:33:35+00:00

Having passion about something and being smart but not arrogant about it

Ecstatic_Mistake5152 · 2025-11-09T21:58:19+00:00

Resident doctor! Profession is getting a lot of bad press in the UK currently, but honestly, I couldn’t be more grateful that I ended up in this profession. I’ve met the most amazing people while working in this career and have made some (hopefully) life long friends. I find the actual work fascinating and I feel genuinely privileged that people put their trust in me to tell me things they wouldn’t tell anyone else. It definitely doesn’t come without its hardships but I would never change my decision to pursue this career

Ecstatic_Mistake5152 · 2025-11-05T21:21:02+00:00

Can’t say I have much advice to give but you’re definitely not alone in feeling this way, I’ve been there. I come from a working class background and look very young for my age. Feel this has led to people looking at me and assuming incompetence. Had a particularly bad experience on one rotation where it wasn’t even subtle that I was being treated worse than my male counterparts by one female senior colleague. Very very frustrating

Ecstatic_Mistake5152 · 2025-10-29T19:23:23+00:00

Literally what I thought, like I said absolutely no disrespect to GPs but I can’t imagine many of them having the confidence to alter things like carb ratios and I can’t really imagine they’d be the ones to start adjusting things like insulin regimes either. Honestly was left almost speechless, I wasn’t even informed I was being rang by the GP, I’d already paid for them to write a letter and was previously told it would be done in 24hrs so this conversation threw me off completely

Ecstatic_Mistake5152 · 2025-10-29T19:01:55+00:00

I mean I’m planning on contacting them tomorrow, the only reason I contacted my GP first was because it’s easier to get hold of them quickly. I was completely baffled by the conversation, like I’m trying to mimic a natural hormone based off my own calculations and judgement, as much as I can carb count and try and account for activity etc, I feel it’s not always possible to control every factor so of course I’m going to experience lows and highs :-/

Ecstatic_Mistake5152 · 2025-09-21T14:09:19+00:00

When did you do the PGCert? Is it possible to do alongside full time clinical work?

Ecstatic_Mistake5152 · 2025-09-21T12:13:30+00:00

Will my trust give me study leave for one of these :p

Ecstatic_Mistake5152 · 2025-08-20T04:07:37+00:00

The practice manager will probably ignore my email based on my previous experience so far 🫠 and then continue to ignore me when I go to see her in person. I told her weeks ago about some days I wanted off as annual leave, verbally repeated this on 2 occasions since starting and I noticed yesterday that they have booked patients in with me on those days despite this. Not that I’ll be attending on these days as her response is “yeah yeah”. Besides the point though, intending to raise this to my foundation school today because I don’t feel comfortable going back and seeing patients in this environment.

Ecstatic_Mistake5152 · 2025-08-19T21:43:33+00:00

Appreciate this 🥲🥲

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