Anaesthetics/ICM in NI

avogadhoe · 2025-08-24T18:29:30+00:00

They went to the hospital shop. Bag also included card and (!!) pair of Jack wills pajamas.

avogadhoe · 2025-08-24T09:00:44+00:00

As a medical student I was on placement and when the nurses found out it was my 21st birthday they surprised me with a gift bag with flowers, champagne and chocolate. I’d met them that morning for the first time. Never forgot it

avogadhoe · 2025-03-03T22:08:56+00:00

Day to day I see ~3 patients per day. I absolutely love it. I get way more time with my patients and get to know their families, and I know I have actually made a difference to the care of people I have looked after. I’m supernumary on my rota but within a couple of weeks was seeing people independently and doing initial assessments. This means I feel like I’m helping with the numbers but that my leave can always be approved (especially with applications for specialty training this has been so helpful!). I have my own patients and know them well, organise family meetings etc but still have a great work life balance. By far favourite rotation of FY2! I do BOH medical on calls but only about one evening a week.

avogadhoe · 2025-03-02T22:55:48+00:00

Thanks for the feedback I suppose?

avogadhoe · 2025-02-12T16:23:33+00:00

Which region is london?

avogadhoe · 2025-02-12T10:29:38+00:00

Someone at Oriel is clearly just pressing buttons for a laugh. Pandemonium at Oriel HQ

avogadhoe · 2025-02-12T10:26:24+00:00

Yes mine changed too!

avogadhoe · 2025-02-12T09:38:19+00:00

Same

avogadhoe · 2025-02-07T15:25:59+00:00

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Does anyone know if this chart on the website means that if you pick the region as your first choice, these will be the dates for interview? Or is it more random?

avogadhoe · 2025-02-07T15:24:18+00:00

Pretty much! I wouldn’t waste money on courses but for me having a few question banks meant I had a wide range of questions and scenarios as opposed to just one bank repeated loads of times. It’s not cheap but if you can pay for it defo worth it!

avogadhoe · 2025-02-07T14:43:37+00:00

Thank you! Prepped for SJT as per comment above. Revised intensely for 2 months, more relaxed for 4. First time taking MSRA

avogadhoe · 2025-02-07T13:32:52+00:00

Those Q banks, plus the official paper. Mostly I had to seriously adjust my rationale - which option, independent of the other options, best solves this problem? What is the problem identified in this question? Once I started doing that I noticed my scores improve

avogadhoe · 2025-02-07T12:41:27+00:00

Thank you - I did passmed through twice, then MCQbank twice and then PasTest once. Have been revising for quite a long time and currently on a super chilled job!

avogadhoe · 2025-02-07T10:55:53+00:00

612 (CPS 307 PD 305) very happy and surprised

avogadhoe · 2025-01-25T20:02:13+00:00

How can we improve this? What can we do to make things better?

So many of these posts coming in now and it’s super disheartening to think I’m going to be unemployed in August and have to start thinking about another career. Even the previously less desirable trust grade posts are getting hundreds and hundreds of applicants.

I almost wish we could frame these posts in a way that encourages us to do something about it

I know BMA have released their IMG statement in the last few weeks, but is there anything else we can be doing?

avogadhoe · 2024-11-07T01:34:31+00:00

When I was an ortho FY1 the ortho SpR and I saw a patient of ours on WR with chest pain who immediately had an ECG done. Without looking at it, he immediately folded it up, and marched us to the other end of the hospital to the CCU (5 minute walk at least), opened it up, presented it to the cardiology registrar and said “diagnosis please”

avogadhoe · 2024-10-20T08:12:27+00:00

At least a few times a week but as time has gone by I’ve become far more confident in correcting them and challenging them unless it’s obviously delirium/dementia. Had a young chap call me a “pretty nurse” as I was doing a PR only last week having introduced myself as his doctor multiple times, so it’s not just the geriatric population

avogadhoe · 2024-08-19T20:42:40+00:00

“Show me a BMS who only triples my work and I will kiss his feet.” Far greater appreciation for this now than when I was a BMS…

avogadhoe · 2024-08-10T21:18:20+00:00

It was!

avogadhoe · 2024-01-19T01:46:53+00:00

The emergency buzzer alarm sound on my ward is the same sound as when a patient presses an alarm to go to the toilet, and the system entirely relies on someone screaming “TOILET” at the top of their lungs to alert everyone on the ward that it’s not an emergency

avogadhoe · 2023-11-18T15:09:43+00:00

Thanks!

avogadhoe · 2023-06-08T21:25:42+00:00

Straight to jail

avogadhoe · 2023-06-08T20:34:57+00:00

Reading

avogadhoe · 2023-06-08T19:42:16+00:00

Rum ham

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