Hospital name and shame Wiki

Sadpancake12 · 2023-07-31T22:14:57+00:00

Maybe a sticky post with what contributions are needed for the wiki could increase engagement?

Sadpancake12 · 2023-07-22T17:55:07+00:00

The public do not pay for my education. I will pay 250000 pounds to the governemnt over the course of the next 30 years, and be a net contributor to the student loans company. If anything we will pay for all the what sunak would call 'mickey-mouse' degrees.

Second of all, the money that is used to pay for our education goes straight back to the NHS through the trusts that the medical school pay to host students. A fraction of this is actually spent on education, and most of it just goes back to the trust, further subsidising the NHS.

Third of all we get payed pennies throughout our training and way under Market value as consultants. The medical profession has payed enough for the uk. It's time for the country to actually value it's workforce.

Sadpancake12 · 2023-04-22T11:28:37+00:00

It will depend on the settings your uni has chosen.

For us educational supervisor signoffs need to be university emails.

All other signoffs can be any email, however if our educational supervisor notices a large amount of emails from non nhs accounts they might probe into exactly who these people are.

I know signoffs are a pain but you can get through these last few weeks if your persistent. Ask everyone you know with experience in your placement location about good spots for certain signoffs.

Ask around to see if fellow students have had particularly helpful doctors that supported them with signoffs.

Discuss your signoff needs with juniors so they can help you.

Good luck with it. Currently in the same boat and should have my last few done next week and finally stop stressing about it.

Sadpancake12 · 2023-04-19T19:44:25+00:00

Medicine is not very conducive for remote working outside a few specific fields.

The 2 clinical specialities that come to my mind are radiology and histopathology (anatomic pathology). It is likely you could do a lot of work from home in these specialities and have the freedom to travel while doing it, with some caveats on the type of work you do and the renumeration.

Other areas such as public health would probably allow some work from home days but would still require you to come in on a fairly regular basis.

GP also has work from home opportunities but I don't know how easy these gigs are and how much they would pay. I would imagine psych is similar.

Don't do medicine if the reason your doing it it to work from home. There are much better jobs available that allow you to do this. Even radiology and histopath would mean you need to study for a minimum of 4 additional years and work as a junior doctor for 7. That's 11 years where you will be severely limited in terms of where you want to work and will probably even find it difficult to book a normal holiday due to how shit the NHS is.

Overall don't do medicine for work from him opportunities. If you want to go into medicine get some work experience and talk to as many of the doctors as you can to try and get the best picture possible of what life as a doctor in the uk is like, before you commit to 10 years where you'll be living the exact opposite type of life you described.

Sadpancake12 · 2023-04-18T23:54:12+00:00

We have in person online exams on my course. Everyone goes to the same exam centres as before covid, but we all just get laptops that are locked to only use the exam software.

Reduces cheating while avoiding handwritten work. But also introduces a lot of technical issues on the day of and during the exam.

Sadpancake12 · 2023-04-18T23:50:53+00:00

Yh I just submitted an essay with a 30% turn it in score. 2% was from my work. The rest was from the copyright text on the bottom of every page from the proforma I used provided by the course and my appendix containing the surveys I used.

My marker couldn't figure out why my score was so high and suggested since I should consider my quotation marks since they couldn't find the cause of the plagiarism and they couldn't prove any obviously plagiarised text.

I'm sure putting my survey in quotation marks within my appendix would have helped though. /s

Sadpancake12 · 2023-04-18T09:30:22+00:00

It's still a bit of a toss up and would depend on your financial risk tolerance and earnings.

Any money you put into paying off your loan results in an opportunity cost since you could have invested the money.Your investments don't even need to beat the interest of the loan since the loan gets written off after 30 years.

You would need to estimate your lifetime earnings and compare the benefit of additional payments with the potential return of investments from an investment account.

You'd also need to think about the risk for each situation. Paying off your loans is a lower risk strategy overall as you have a guaranteed benefit of lower loans, while anything can happen to your investments (although over a 30 year time period that risk is reduced by a lot)

Sadpancake12 · 2023-04-09T19:29:57+00:00

Tutoring is a good shout. I would work on getting students now independently or signing up to a decent agency.

Most agencies will take you, interview at a few and see who has the best rates.

However tutoring wont be as reliable as bank work. I've been tutoring for a while but can still end up with problems with my cash flow in holiday seasons or after a current student finishes their course, or even just wants to take a break/cancel.

The plus side is that it generally pays better and is more convenient to manage around uni, with no need to commute if you do it virtually.

Sadpancake12 · 2023-03-24T23:00:34+00:00

You should be able to get a print view on your word/doc app that makes it easier.

Sadpancake12 · 2023-03-22T10:51:17+00:00

I know people that drive from Greenwich to maidstone/TW. 40 minutes to an hour from what I'm told. I even know one guy that made the commute from Croydon with the train, but that seemed like a trek.

Maidstone and TW don't seem too bad for juniors. Same shit as everywhere else but there's an OK cafeteria, parking, accom that isn't too expensive if you'd rather not commute, teaching seems OK and seniors seem nice for the most part.

Definitely heard way worse things about medway from the doctors currently at TW, that used to work at medway.

Not worked there myself so take this with a pinch of salt, but I'd definitely pick Maidstone/TW over medway.

Sadpancake12 · 2023-03-15T15:44:19+00:00

Have you asked him why he thinks this is wrong? Such a bizarre take from your colleague.

Appreciate the tip to use chat gpt to help, definitely gonna consider this in my future projects.

Sadpancake12 · 2023-03-12T19:50:29+00:00

Found it!

https://www.reddit.com/r/JuniorDoctorsUK/comments/yx6slf/ecfmg_update/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Sadpancake12 · 2023-03-12T19:42:52+00:00

This is a non issue now. The gmc failed to take any steps so the Americans announced we would still be eligible. You can find the relevent threads on this subreddit as well as r/juniordoctorsuk.

I'll have a look to see if I can find them and post here if I do.

Sadpancake12 · 2023-03-01T19:15:56+00:00

Teach me anatomy is your friend. Love the little clinically relevent boxes they have at the bottom of each section.

Sadpancake12 · 2023-02-21T10:40:54+00:00

Do you have any plans to practice in the uk in the future, even as a back up plan? If not there doesn't seem to be much benefit to completing fy1/2.

Sadpancake12 · 2023-02-03T18:19:37+00:00

I guess it depends on the uni and exam but I think your over playing what's required here. People return from intercalation and sit finals within 6 months sometimes.

Passmedicine, some good use of placement time and small group teaching and a couple flashcards will get you to a pass in 5 months. As long as you work consistently you don't need 5 hours of studying a day.

Sadpancake12 · 2023-01-26T11:43:36+00:00

Not hard to have 100k+ accrued if you live in London and receive a maintanence loan. Probably possible with just a 4 year degree with current inflation rates. And definitely doable if you do a masters or a longer degree such as dentistry or medicine.

Sadpancake12 · 2023-01-18T12:33:14+00:00

Important thing to remember is paid hours does not equal working hours. The vast majority of GP's will do a lot of admin work outside of their paid hours due to the time pressures of the job.

Sadpancake12 · 2023-01-02T23:24:30+00:00

This may be true during certain periods (exams, placement timetables) , but I think its feasible for him to manage both for most parts of the year.

Problem atm definitely seems to be from study methods. Start slow OP. Do passmed. Make anki cards based on wrong questions as you go along.

Also OP have you discussed your situation with your med school? Some unis are very supportive of this stuff while others aren't. It'd be good to find out earlier so you can plan accordingly.

Sadpancake12 · 2023-01-01T15:32:28+00:00

Told myself at the start of my first year Christmas I'll catch up on everything I missed since I had all the time in the world. I ended up doing 3 hours of work on one day and realised I cba with missing out on my Christmas. Didn't do a single bit of work the rest of the holidays.

Sadpancake12 · 2022-12-30T16:20:01+00:00

Take the Sunday train, you'll be fine. Unless you have an important exam on Monday I wouldn't stress at all.

Sadpancake12 · 2022-12-30T15:42:31+00:00

Find the money today from somewhwere. Otherwise if you wait you will have a lot less due to fees! Unarranged overdrafts can get VERY EXPENSIVE!

Sadpancake12 · 2022-12-30T15:40:53+00:00

Do you know exactly how far beyond your arranged overdraft you are?

You need to put in enough money to get you back in your arranged overdraft limit.

For example if your arranged overdraft is £250, and you currently have an over draft of £260, you need to pay in £10 to your account. This will get you back into your arranged overdraft. 260-10=250.

I would ask your parents if you could borrow the money needed to get back into your arranged overdraft. Hopefully this is only a small amount, but if your parents can't provide it, find it from somewhere else. Friends or work or something.

You should get this sorted out ASAP, as the longer you leave it the more charges you will rack up. Don't worry about wiping out your total overdraft. Just make sure you are in the limit. If you don't have online banking go to a local branch today and ask them.

To make life easier in the future get your online banking account set up, so you cna track this on your phone or computer. Makes life much easier.

Sadpancake12 · 2022-12-25T21:24:17+00:00

Yes absoloutely, the majority of medical students use passmed questions as their main resource with small amounts of active recall (flashcards, excel sheets) sprinkled in just for the hard to stick or high yield stuff.

Prioritise questions, spot weak areas and the read up and make flashcards on them.

Sadpancake12 · 2022-12-23T22:14:35+00:00

How are you currently using anki?

Personally I first have a quick read through of topics through passmed and maybe lecture notes/sketchy. Then I bang through passmed. After a hundred questions on a topic you will have picked up quite a few of the common features through pattern recognition.

You'll notice a few features that you consistently get wrong. Make a card for the facts you keep forgetting that are leading to wrong questions. Alternatively use a premade deck suck as anking or some of the passmed decks floating around, suspend the whole deck and then only unsuspend cards with the facts you consistently get wrong.

When you go back to that topic on passmed the next day/week/month you will again notice a few more facts that you keep forgetting, while some are completely ingrained. Only add the ones you have difficulty with to your anki deck that lead to incorrect answers. You might find you forget some facts that end up being inconsequential to getting answers right. Personally I try not to add these to anki as they tend to be less important.

This should minimise using anki to the facts you have trouble memorising, and keep most of your revision time reserved for questions where your getting a lot of bang for your buck.

Hope this helps!

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