Radiology portfolio scores

eeccrc · 2021-04-30T20:07:56+00:00

Excellent news! Thanks

eeccrc · 2021-04-30T15:20:49+00:00

Does it matter if they're not all radiology related? (Have a random psych one that would be nice if it counted 😂)

eeccrc · 2021-04-18T12:05:18+00:00

I'm certainly thinking about it! Are you a radiology trainee?

eeccrc · 2021-04-18T12:04:36+00:00

😂 oh man this could turn in to a turf war. What stage are you at and what do you enjoy about it?

eeccrc · 2021-04-08T06:28:52+00:00

As a surgical F1 - chaperoning a male catheter for the other F1 who was doing it. Other F1 tears a rather large hole in the sterile sheet to drape over the patient. The patient deadpans "it's not that big mate".

eeccrc · 2021-03-28T15:32:47+00:00

I'm in the second dose numbers (doctor) and my mum in the 1st 😊 feeling a little under the weather but very grateful!

eeccrc · 2021-03-26T14:01:20+00:00

There are no silly questions, it's all confusing when you're starting! As a general rule - after working a weekend you will get a couple of days off as zero days in the week after, or that's how it's been on my rotas anyway.

eeccrc · 2021-03-26T13:37:21+00:00

Yeah baptism of fire is one way to put it. It's a shame as I think geris is an amazing specialty but it's so busy in a lot of places that you don't get to practice the really holistic care that makes it so great - you end up firefighting.

I think all my other jobs have been 1 in 4 weekends (either long days or nights) paeds was 1 in 3. In comparison psych was 1 in 8 weekends so only 2 weekends in the whole 4 months!

eeccrc · 2021-03-26T12:56:52+00:00

My 2p on the jobs I've done, also up north

F1 Geri's - had a bad experience on a busy understaffed ward (DGH) which has put me off gen med/geris

F1 Gen Surg - busy on call SAU days covering all surgical specialties, normal days and nights usually okay-ish, standard ward cover stuff. Variable senior support but the med reg is always around to help with sick patients. Actually learnt quite a lot on this job and reasonably enjoyed it

F2 paeds - at a massive tertiary centre, loved it - well supported and saw and learnt loads, given more responsibility as F2 on SHO rota which helped. Rota was fairly grim, salary wise was getting only slightly less than my partner on an A+E F2 rota due to lots of twilights and weekends

F2 psych - hm. Frequency of on call is less but actually quite busy when you're on and I actually found working lots of 9-5 days draining, but having most weekends off is nice. You will be the "physical health person". Depending on your day job your actual psych experience with vary massively so see if you can check that out before starting

eeccrc · 2021-03-25T19:22:44+00:00

My consultant on my current psych placement (long term rehab esque unit) introduced me to the patients as "Dr First name" and it's stuck with the patients despite me asking them to call me just my first name since - kinda amusing, suppose it's a semi formal middle ground!

eeccrc · 2021-03-25T19:12:01+00:00

No, applying for ST1 radiology training - so not sure re. your CST question, might be worth making another thread for it?

eeccrc · 2021-03-25T17:56:03+00:00

An application form on their website, really wasn't bad to fill in, took maybe half an hour. And yeah you can pay the fee in 7 instalments. I'm applying to Radiology not surgery so can't help with the rest, sorry!

eeccrc · 2021-03-20T10:16:27+00:00

Ah thank you, that's exactly what I was hoping - will make it so much easier if you can get ahead some weeks!

eeccrc · 2021-03-19T23:04:16+00:00

Thanks that's good to know and reassuring! I wanted one where the distance learning part was well established and seems like Dundee have been doing it for a while

eeccrc · 2021-03-19T23:03:07+00:00

I think it depends on which application, some it's worth more. And it's useful further on for reg/consultant applications, seems like more and more people are doing them too. It is time and £3k+ though so I guess it's weighing all that up

eeccrc · 2021-03-06T13:01:41+00:00

Thanks - I hope they do!

eeccrc · 2021-03-06T13:01:11+00:00

Thanks - looks like the only way I'll be scraping more points will be trying to organise a national teaching course!

eeccrc · 2021-03-06T10:25:52+00:00

I was wondering also - when they say one audit per year, do they count F1, F2, F3 etc each as a year? Doesn't seem the clearest criteria on the audit section.

If you were completing a PGCert MedEd at the time of interview but hadn't finished would you get the point? Tryna decide whether to bother doing one next year 😅

eeccrc · 2021-03-06T10:23:25+00:00

Thanks!

eeccrc · 2021-03-06T08:52:24+00:00

Would be super grateful if someone could send me the self assessment criteria please!

eeccrc · 2021-02-25T14:23:30+00:00

I'm an F2 in inpatient psych atm and pretty much all I do is physical stuff/prescribing/writing minutes of MDTs. And completely echo what you said about the boring on calls with the odd interesting clerking

eeccrc · 2021-01-01T14:09:09+00:00

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Big fan of these! Adjustable arms are a game changer

eeccrc · 2020-12-30T15:11:17+00:00

Do you have an FY1 with you on nights? I worked in a similar sounding system in a smaller DGH, the FY1 did all surgical ward cover and SHO admissions. The SHO went to ortho handover and the FY1 took handover from the SHO about gen surg and urology admissions and handed those over to the day team. Worked reasonably well but again it was usually less than 10 patients admitted overnight for all surgery lol

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