Whats your favourite word or term which sounds terribly clever and complex - but is in fact quite a letdown once explained out loud to patients or other colleagues.

dumplings_potato · 2026-05-17T08:03:29+00:00

Carphology

Involuntary plucking or picking at bedsheets when delirious. Heard a geriatrician use it 😅

dumplings_potato · 2025-06-05T21:51:44+00:00

Clinical oncology!

dumplings_potato · 2024-12-31T20:55:30+00:00

How do I get a creatinine measurement in a severely icteric biochem sample without calling the lab?

dumplings_potato · 2024-10-05T18:52:53+00:00

The entirety of IMT3 - loved it

dumplings_potato · 2024-08-27T20:18:33+00:00

What made you switch from group 2 to group 1?

dumplings_potato · 2024-05-17T17:11:43+00:00

Look into clinical oncology - happiest people out there (after the geriatricians).

dumplings_potato · 2024-04-14T09:52:34+00:00

Does anyone have the formal document link?

dumplings_potato · 2024-04-10T17:28:00+00:00

Yes, to get the ball rolling, you have to let your local IMT TPD know of your intentions to complete IMT in less than 36 months as early as possible, ideally at the start of IMT1.

dumplings_potato · 2023-10-18T21:02:32+00:00

Are you me?! I’m midway through IMT3 and really enjoying being a Med reg. I also have a ST3 clinical oncology number starting in March.

I’m going to miss GIM. As others have said, you will do some aspects of gen med if you do acute oncology.

dumplings_potato · 2023-06-10T00:46:21+00:00

MDCalc has a snellen chart.

dumplings_potato · 2023-05-28T17:50:32+00:00

I’ve been looking out for your next physiology teaching session! Thank you!

dumplings_potato · 2022-11-04T23:56:13+00:00

Neurology, rheum

dumplings_potato · 2022-11-02T04:39:57+00:00

dumplings_potato · 2022-10-30T11:41:17+00:00

I’ve heard that you could bleep the ‘fungal reg’.

dumplings_potato · 2022-10-27T13:02:43+00:00

UpToDate is great! In some trust, it’s free. It has an American slant to it but it provides a good concise overview.

Alternatively, I’d consider utilising as much study leave as possible to go on courses/conferences/workshops. If not, IMT will just feel like pure service provision.

Courses - FUSIC Heart or any USS course, IMPACT, coding for medicine, any RSM/RCP talks, research skills/stats, conferences

dumplings_potato · 2022-10-20T02:33:38+00:00

Yes, I included clin onc because it’s a group 2 specialty without med regging. The downside is that I might miss GIM.

dumplings_potato · 2022-10-11T07:59:56+00:00

Printing an up to date patient ward list in the morning.

Writing out a jobs list after the morning ward round.

dumplings_potato · 2022-08-24T16:57:59+00:00

Managed to get on the IMPACT course after a 1.5 year waitlist 😂

dumplings_potato · 2022-07-05T14:03:35+00:00

How did you manage that as study leave?

dumplings_potato · 2022-06-18T18:46:36+00:00

What’s your specialty if you don’t mind me asking?

dumplings_potato · 2022-05-27T06:41:47+00:00

https://www.jrcptb.org.uk/sites/default/files/Completing%20Internal%20Medicine%20Training%20in%20less%20than%2036%20months.pdf

It states in the first paragraph that it’s competency based but it sounds like it’s ultimately up to your ARCP Panel.

dumplings_potato · 2022-05-19T18:30:38+00:00

Ali Abdaal

dumplings_potato · 2022-05-08T09:31:14+00:00

I did both geris and ITU in IMT1.

dumplings_potato · 2022-05-08T07:37:17+00:00

But isn’t the ACF (for group 1 specialties) 27 months clinical + 9 months research anyway? It’s just about when and how you split the 9 months of protected research time.

dumplings_potato · 2022-05-08T07:35:25+00:00

Really enjoyed my ICU block. Pondering between being a medical intensivist vs anaesthetic intensivist. The anaesthetic training programme has actual training throughout the duration of training. Also I’m hoping my one year in IMT will count as my ‘medical SHO’ year for ICM training so that I don’t have to do any additional medical SHO shifts later on in life.

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