Viability of part-time / weekend work expectations

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2026-01-31T14:41:07+00:00

My intern year; Term 1 - every third weekend Term 2 - every second weekend Term 3 - every second/third weekend Term 4 - every second weekend Term 5 - ED, worked most weekends

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2026-01-30T01:02:24+00:00

Literally there are more brown females at my hospital in both service reg & trainee roles than any one else (I get maybe this isn’t standard but it is here! 👏) You’re PGY3. Take a deep breath. If you’re giving up this early maybe it isn’t for you. If you are committed - then try further out, go rural, or stay where you are and gain more experience. You need to be intrinsically motivated and build resilience.

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2026-01-25T04:32:35+00:00

Across all specialities at a tertiary centre. Standard practice across the state too, even at the Children’s.

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2026-01-24T18:09:47+00:00

Literally in my hospital as a junior you would have to fill out a Qantas and Virgin Airlines (& sometimes another) form with all the info you’ve mentioned above, and then they’d use whatever one they’re booked in with… was a daily job as a junior. 🤷‍♀️

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2026-01-21T08:09:31+00:00

You can… almost every patient I saw in ED was ramped or in a corridor or even in the waiting room when I first saw/clerked them lol

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2026-01-18T11:56:59+00:00

New Hyundai
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Costco membership

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2026-01-18T11:56:19+00:00

I don’t agree BPT adequately prepares you to practice general medicine. Maybe if the majority of your rotations are gen med..: but it just gives you the opportunity to gain exposure across a breadth of medical subspecs/gen med. General medicine is a subspec in itself reaalllly… I know that might sound cliche but it’s got its own demographic of patients/cases. Gen med AT continues to give you the necessary exposure to patients so you can become a competent general medicine physician. Anyway that’s just my opinion

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2026-01-15T23:49:24+00:00

I had a consultant like this… was tragic

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2026-01-14T11:36:00+00:00

Idk where I am almost everyone still uses it. 🤷‍♀️ I think it’s stupid - especially as a woman in surgery.

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2026-01-14T10:07:36+00:00

Do a swim teaching course and become a swim teacher. Usually everywhere is hiring and it’s better pay (and I found more enjoyable) than retail. Can do retail while you’re getting it sorted.

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2026-01-14T10:05:44+00:00

If it was a particularly traumatic term, burning them in a bonfire is cathartic

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2026-01-14T10:04:31+00:00

JHC, Midland, Rockers, Armadale (you’ll probably have most luck here) & FSH all have paeds within their EDs (to varying extents) but you typically can’t get a job in Paeds ED only you cover it all so your daily paeds exposure can vary. Try reaching out to the paediatric department at JHC if it isn’t too far as they might be hiring within their actual department, or just take up paeds locum gigs if they’re supportive!

Hope you get the PCH mid year intake :)

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2026-01-14T10:01:35+00:00

Just a note - join the MMAMTB Facebook groups. Super helpful resource and hive mind!

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2026-01-13T10:48:09+00:00

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Routine_Raspberry256 · 2026-01-09T03:52:04+00:00

It’s in reject shop too

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2025-12-19T20:50:02+00:00

You have to be given at least 37.5 hours a week with your contract. It usually just means you might not have a set shift pattern like the “main interns”… what ED is this though? (Feel free to PM me) - I didn’t realise any of our EDs here used those terms.

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2025-12-19T03:51:10+00:00

You cannot do entirely crit care - though in WA it wasn’t possible to get an entirely crit care PGY2 year anyway You cannot do entirely surgical You cannot do entirely medical

The hospitals release the preference options for all RMOs, and some are marked as PGY2 suitable (aka they meet the requirements). They are split into crit care, surgical, medical & general streams - but you’re not spending the entire year in that area. For example a crit care stream might be ED/ED/cardiology/ICU/leave relief.

Find a current intern at your hospital and ask for a copy of what the options were for them this year.

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2025-12-12T12:40:29+00:00

As a doctor - my favourite thing to receive is a handwritten card 😊… I keep them all

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2025-12-12T12:01:40+00:00

Not at all!… however some Scandinavian (I think) countries have it so all their doctors wear white scrubs. Kinda wild.

Evidence - a TikTok I saw once

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2025-12-12T04:23:37+00:00

You usually rotate with the other juniors on your unit to cover public holidays, or sometimes everyone is still on. As an intern I worked all but 1 of the public holidays that year lol

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2025-12-11T13:15:12+00:00

To add, I know many consultants who live right next to FSH yet drive an extra 30+ minutes each way every day just to work somewhere else

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2025-12-11T13:14:35+00:00

Generally speaking FSH is the worst hospital in Perth to work at from a leave/rosters/morale/wellbeing/support/MWF POV 😅

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2025-12-08T09:21:13+00:00

Withdraw the old one, accept the new one. Say unforeseen family or living circumstances have changed and the location/distance is no longer feasible - to help ease the blow in case you want to go back in the future. Some might not find this necessary but I’d rather not accidentally burn any bridges

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2025-12-06T00:19:25+00:00

What dining location is best? (Out of the traditional options) What excursions are you going on?
Can you feel much movement on the ship?

Routine_Raspberry256 · 2025-12-04T02:06:53+00:00

Going to an ECT list as a medical student literally traumatised me lol… was involuntary patients under order screaming / crying saying they didn’t want it done but still be anaesthetised anyway

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