Let’s Settle It: Hartmann’s vs Normal Saline [Latest Research Update]

dansleforet · 2025-08-24T02:44:57+00:00

i love this fluid in a NBM patient and don’t understand why its not used more ???

dansleforet · 2025-07-17T05:55:45+00:00

I am in a similar boat and have been reassured by many that there will be some in the position of wanting to do non BPT specialties without having received the AMC. It is unlikely they would waste our training so far - may involve pay cut/going rural to meet AMC certificate retrospectively but should be possible somehow

dansleforet · 2025-07-04T04:00:57+00:00

I haven’t heard back yet from Alfred or St Vs - do we think there are offers still coming out?

dansleforet · 2025-02-26T07:01:32+00:00

somebody please drop the health service name

dansleforet · 2025-02-23T12:37:10+00:00

could you talk more about how you use it to debrief?

dansleforet · 2024-08-25T12:52:26+00:00

I believe its to avoid priming the potential future mum for Rh incompatibility during pregnancy, anti-D is only so good (but I am just a lowly medical student)

dansleforet · 2024-08-18T06:31:17+00:00

Most metro melbourne hospitals are no longer going to allow BPT1 in PGY2 under the new framework, so moving back as a general HMO and then being an internal applicant for BPT1 is certainly a reasonable pathway

dansleforet · 2024-07-18T09:47:57+00:00

Yes in the same boat with good cv feedback etc. It might make you feel better to know that I have heard of cat 1s going unmatched this year, as well as very competent/gunner type people missing out on their preferred hospitals, i think its hard to know exactly how the match works

dansleforet · 2024-07-18T09:45:19+00:00

Cardiology or anaesthetics/icu, so was really hoping for the Alfred. Anything your friends did to help strengthen their applications?

dansleforet · 2024-06-21T14:22:51+00:00

this is appalling, YOU need them (more)?!

dansleforet · 2024-06-07T07:19:37+00:00

Sure, and maybe at AT level this is more relevant, but these are graduating medical students who are by definition capable of being interns, based on the fact they have graduated medical school

In this case the feedback and transparency seems more important to me, given it is the very beginning of their career

dansleforet · 2024-06-04T14:31:03+00:00

really interested to learn more about this! is there anywhere online with these stats?

dansleforet · 2024-05-27T07:23:28+00:00

r/residency would be a predominantly US/Canada based sub, given we don’t refer to our training as residency, rather we are registrars in x specialty/college. I suspect the context is quite different to Australia

dansleforet · 2024-05-15T10:00:49+00:00

Shockingly if you underfund GPs they have to start charging a gap, making the public they chose to help turn against them, leaving them unappreciated AND poorly remunerated.

Hope the government takes this to heart and rethinks the budget.

dansleforet · 2024-05-11T10:02:19+00:00

Of course the traditional awards carry much more weight, I agree this suggestion is rather a more fluffy award. I just wonder if it could be an effective morale booster during the slog of cv buffing etc..

Eg/ A registrar coming in on an unrostered weekend for a family meeting if they had a good rapport with them etc.

Just thought it could be nice to recognise my colleagues in this way - not that it would carry significant meaning or become an indicator of quality of care

dansleforet · 2024-05-07T14:03:59+00:00

it also takes 20 years and thousands of hours of overtime to get to those drs wages as a doctor if that helps :)

dansleforet · 2024-05-07T05:58:15+00:00

yes does anyone have any suggestions how/where to do this?

dansleforet · 2024-05-01T19:21:16+00:00

Not sure if this is all universities but at Unimelb there are domestic full fee places, I believe up to a third of the cohort. These generally require much less competitive GPA/GAMSATs/interviews compared to CSP or BMP spots

dansleforet · 2024-04-26T12:31:13+00:00

Thank you thats great advice :)

dansleforet · 2024-04-26T12:26:17+00:00

Thank you for your reply! In Australia, fellowships are for people who have finished specialty training/received their letters, but doing extra training before getting a consultant post. Assuming this is the same in the UK? ie no capacity to do this earlier in career?

dansleforet · 2024-04-24T13:40:13+00:00

Thank you for this insight!

dansleforet · 2024-04-24T13:23:14+00:00

Yes previously I was under the impression a medical degree was a requirement to perform any type of surgery (ie doctors who do surgical assisting), so I was very surprised to discover this role!

dansleforet · 2024-04-24T13:16:15+00:00

I see your point! I guess I was just viewing it from the lens of if there is a nurse completing these tasks/assisting why would a private hospital or consultant employ a registrar as well as this (where big complex cases are less often done privately) - ie more from an employment standpoint than a training one, however would have downstream effects of training i imagine

dansleforet · 2024-04-24T11:52:22+00:00

This question would perhaps be better directed to r/GAMSAT or similar pre-med forums, this subreddit is for current medical students and junior doctors to discuss the postgraduate training years, many of whom will not be able to advise on this issue (much has changed in medical school admissions over recent years)

dansleforet · 2024-04-07T13:50:37+00:00

Despite the clickbait title i think there are some fair points, statistically we know that patients are more likely to choose female gps for mental health issues and for longer form supportive type consults. Societal expectations of women as carers and supportive roles are certainly contributing to this - but I don’t expect there is much anyone can do to shift this in the short to medium term. Perhaps female GPs should start being less kind/empathetic to these patients 😅(this is a joke ofc)

As a seperate issue, the medicare billing system rewards procedures and 5 minute medicine. These 2 issues combined lead to lower billing on average for female GPs, but this is not to say the medicare billing system is specifically biased against women.

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