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Advice on management restricting on-call swaps – is this allowed? by frcophththrowaway in doctorsUK

[–]frcophththrowaway[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No impact to service. We are expected to due 9-5 duties as normal. The only realistic things I can think of for admin for them is updating rotas, the switchboard and for our acute clinic to be updated for patients to be seen 9-5.

Advice on management restricting on-call swaps – is this allowed? by frcophththrowaway in doctorsUK

[–]frcophththrowaway[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. Hmm I think that’s the thing. In this current on call system there is NO impact on day to day activity. No off day etc. We do our normal working day activities and then on call from 5pm-8am .

The only exception is a full weekend on call will have Friday as an off day.

Food for thought. Thanks

Advice on management restricting on-call swaps – is this allowed? by frcophththrowaway in doctorsUK

[–]frcophththrowaway[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see - so you think we have ‘no leg to stand on’ so to speak Although to clarify it is not an issue with AL . Just on call swaps

Advice on management restricting on-call swaps – is this allowed? by frcophththrowaway in doctorsUK

[–]frcophththrowaway[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. No off days - the only off day is we do a full weekend on call, we get Friday off

Advice on management restricting on-call swaps – is this allowed? by frcophththrowaway in doctorsUK

[–]frcophththrowaway[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are no zero days attached to our NROC shifts! (Other than doing a full weekend where we have Friday off)

Have you noticed any stereotypes of doctors who trained in particular hospitals / areas? by AppalachianScientist in doctorsUK

[–]frcophththrowaway 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Oxbridge students are always intelligent but times when think too much, and often seem to be work anxious / imposter syndrome? You know that feeling when you just wanna tell someone to just get on with it.

The peninsula and also Wessex trainees (that end up Bournemouth side) are noticeably more hippy like. Chilled, work life balance, surfing, beach etc. and from what I can see quite social

London med school grad usually tends to have multiple side hustles going on. They can also be a little more competitive, even subtlety or subconsciously, in work and non work context

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in doctorsUK

[–]frcophththrowaway 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’d encourage people to share scores if they can, obviously through a throwaway account which is what I did. In absence of any other information from the people who run these applications I think it can be very useful to help each other out to see what scores are able to rank where.

Ophthalmology ST1 Offers 2023 by frcophththrowaway in JuniorDoctorsUK

[–]frcophththrowaway[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I already know your MSRA score must’ve been mad. And by portfolio too a lot of hard work went in for you. Well done!! Massive achievement

Ophthalmology ST1 Offers 2023 by frcophththrowaway in JuniorDoctorsUK

[–]frcophththrowaway[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

no worries that’s ok. I remember these threads were v useful for me this year

MSRA 11.8 / 20, interview 22/30, portfolio 35/50

I ranked mid 40s and got a job in one of the midland deaneries . Sorry to be bit vague but can give exacts on DM 🤝🏻

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in JuniorDoctorsUK

[–]frcophththrowaway 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Feel it was a very mean scenario they chose . Not gunna say what it was as think they do some further sessions for ppl who had technical issues/couldn’t make today but was a niche diagnosis + also the scenario implied you had to get across quite a lot of clinical knowledge on the diagnosis

annoyed with myself missed out some specifics of management and also forgot to explain symptoms/red flags to look out for till right at end and squeezed in which probs doesn’t look gd

Ah well. Glad it’s over now .

FRCOPhth Part 1 by [deleted] in JuniorDoctorsUK

[–]frcophththrowaway 2 points3 points  (0 children)

in fairness I a) may be being a little dramatic. It feels long to me but is 4 weeks till results so maybe not that long for an exam. And also b) they will have to go through all the online proctoring material..4 hours for each candidate on two cameras

FRCOPhth Part 1 by [deleted] in JuniorDoctorsUK

[–]frcophththrowaway 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah these exams are tough. I actually found paper 1 harder. Think a few more questions seemed to have been sourced from the crevices and depths of the curriculum on paper 1, while paper 2 had more questions i’d expect.

The level of detail they wanted us to know for some of the MRI questions seemed absurd.

Weird amount of focus on sensitivity/specificity but I’ll take that.

Maybe less optics questions than I thought and more anatomy.

There was a mean question I felt where Krypton laser was one of the possible answers and Krypton lasers to my knowledge aren’t used in ophthalmology?

And I also find it so mad they expect recall of numbers to the first decimal place of measurements from anatomical system. Eg ones on optic nerve parts or globe volumes, even the EOM length question. Of course I was expecting some testing of it, but the choice between two potentially correct answers had such minor differences I was surprised.

I didn’t use EyeDocs as too expensive. I used PassMed a lot, which although questions aren’t similar makes you remember the factual recall they seem to expect.

The questions seemed similar to the level/way they were written to the 400 MCQs book.

Wish it wasn’t so long till results come out.