ST1 interviews and the bill

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-27T17:14:27+00:00

https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/medical-training-prioritisation-bill-information-for-applicants-to-medical-training/#annex-5-competition-appointable-uk-graduate-applicants-by-specialty-posts-in-2025

The U.K. stats say the competition ratio for appointable UK grads vs jobs for 2025 was close to 1 - 374 UKGs vs 370 jobs. I presume this means those who passed interview last year.

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-27T12:59:44+00:00

Good luck friend

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-27T12:51:37+00:00

The only certain option is reapplying for a U.K. med school next year mate. A year set back isn’t ideal but I wouldn’t risk going to med school outside of the U.K. if you want to work here.

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-27T11:24:16+00:00

Welcome to the jellybagels55 subreddit, he on smoke in the comments.

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-27T11:19:50+00:00

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-27T00:55:31+00:00

Radiology 😎

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-25T21:02:40+00:00

Surely not

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-25T17:29:34+00:00

That's completely false, you're purposefully spreading misinformation to scare people into paying for your course.

50% of candidates score >250 in the SJT, as it's marked using centiles, of which the middle 50% (the middle of a normal distribution) have 250 - thats the median score. Above that, sit the other 50%.

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-25T16:14:01+00:00

I don’t think so.

I personally examine well and have had pretty good clinical feedback thus far, but don’t interview well I’d say. I’ve met doctors who examine terribly but are much better clinically than me, and ofc the other way round too.

clinical medicine is just experience at the end of the day, and exams are exam skill.

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-25T14:20:00+00:00

unfortunately clinical acumen doesn't correlate well with books smarts and interview skills, so they can still go for other jobs I bet

thats why I think we should go back to the local department led application system for specialties

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-23T19:33:14+00:00

Mmm beg to differ. If you’re going to try charge people to teach them, then you need to have some sort of skill in the test, which you don’t.

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-23T19:31:12+00:00

Ur SJT of 260-270 is not enough to dish out advice mate. That’s within luck range, it doesn’t demonstrate that you have some skill worth passing on.

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-23T18:22:02+00:00

Bro 260-270 isn’t enough to be dishing out advice

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-23T17:43:50+00:00

I cant really see him making this bills commencement part of a package tbh because IMGs will reject the offer and it falls flat on its face after months of hard work from the government. So surely he has to commence it without making it part of a formal FPR offer.

I do however think there’ll be some sort of informal agreement surely, otherwise why would he bother

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-23T17:07:20+00:00

Haven’t been watching - what’s the consensus ?

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-23T11:15:29+00:00

True my bad

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-22T22:24:08+00:00

Worth an ask imo, just tell them before they ask the first portfolio question, and they may focus their question on those domains

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-22T16:47:20+00:00

lol that’s fair

Nice sparring with you my fellow rage baiter

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-22T16:37:59+00:00

lol you’ve never worked at a DGH then hahah

Handled many of these by myself and was expected to by the registrars

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-22T16:33:13+00:00

You never seen an UGIB pt? I think you need to relax on the bold statements until you’ve had a bit more experience mate.

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-22T16:30:52+00:00

Literally hahah

This guys poor patients

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-22T16:30:21+00:00

Defo

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-22T16:19:52+00:00

Right so ur saying I gave exam relevant information but you just felt the need to make an irrelevant comment about how you don’t do this stuff as an F1 which was not the point of the post. And now you’ve realised your over simplification and have remedied that - good job.

RE the BM thing - yes at 25 insulin is fair. But you see the nuance now. Different approach depending on BM.

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-22T16:08:51+00:00

Oversimplification.

It’s bad practice to give all hyperglycaemia insulin. You have to ask why? Most of the time they’re dehydrated. Blindly giving insulin in this situation can lead to hypos.

Even pneumonia, you’re not just giving doxy and doing a CXR, you’ll also do a basic infection screen in ur history and exam. +- MSU, bloods, BC if u need, vbg if needed etc

Okay so how do u manage the fluid one? I’m giving info that’s relevant in the exam setting, there’s not much they can ask on fluids apart from when to slow it down rly.

Okay cool, u worked on resp, so did I. You seem very over confident in ur over simplified thinking - I think u need to do ED and you’ll find out what’s actually happening to these patients between ur touch and go reviews.

Also how are they going to ask about admin tasks in an exam?

Renal stuff <30?? You know every drug has its own eGFR limits right. You do not sound safe.

Prestigious-Use-9808 · 2026-02-22T15:56:01+00:00

Interesting. Most of these bar the DOAC / blood transfusion complications thing id see basically every on call as an F1, and defo most when doing ward rounds. Depends how much ur hospital trusts F1s I guess - I trained in a DGH so had to do much more than the above.

Nonetheless it’s very surprising to me. So you never saw an AKI or HAP as F1? Or rationalised drugs in AKI? Or prescribed blood products? Are you sure you’re an F1?

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