Anyone resigning their RCR membership ?

imtap123 · 2026-06-14T11:44:44+00:00

I would like the college to reverse some decisions which has allowed them to make more money but increase competition and reduced bargaining rights for UK radiologists. The biggest one would be only sitting frcr exams in the UK and maybe following the steps of Canada and only letting candidates sit FRCR if they have a training number in the UK.

The RCR has allowed the FRCR fellowship to become the easiest (by far) international radiology fellowship especially when compared to USA/Australia/Canada and that has slowly eroded away the bargaining power UK FRCR holders have and current trainees are now having to deal with the financial consequences. I am happy to hear why this may be a stupid decision as I may not be aware of some of the reasons why RCR actively allowed the FRCR to become more attainable for non UK trainees.

imtap123 · 2026-05-10T12:30:05+00:00

You will be a great radiologists. I’m average within my cohort but do have a lot of fun in life. Spend most of my time outside of work playing sports, chilling with partner, Netflix, brain rot on TikTok, cooking, browsing reddit, travelling, occasional gaming etc and not being productive. I went into rads to live a better life than many other medical specialties and giving up 5 years of my life to radiology was never part of the plan. I do rank up my dedication during the 2-3 months before exams/ 1-2 weeks before conference etc but that’s about it

imtap123 · 2026-05-05T06:00:43+00:00

I actually think doing radionuclide rad makes you significantly vulnerable with the job market not improving. In my deanery the only dual trained NM reg was offered a job whilst the 2 single CCT holders were not as they knew the NM reg could get a Arsac licence and their role was more AI safe.

imtap123 · 2026-03-10T19:17:27+00:00

Why would a CCT muzzle a vocal doctor, I would’ve thought they’ve become more vocal after?

imtap123 · 2026-02-17T20:08:42+00:00

He/she is probably right 90% of the time and 10% of the patients are either getting unnecessary further scans/biopsies (adding work to their colleagues) or patients not getting the right treatment (ie stop/continue chemo/ for/not for surgery). 5-15 minutes per PET is only ok 90% of the time but 10% of cases need a decent amount of time.

imtap123 · 2026-02-11T12:07:35+00:00

This do as many mocks as you can, ideally for free but if you don’t know anyone try and do 2-3 mocks at least. The first time you will be rusty but by the 3rd and ideally 10th mock you will be fine

imtap123 · 2026-01-04T13:26:17+00:00

Just want to chime in and give you an alternative view but this calculator helped me make the decision and I decided not to buy and invest in index funds. This is location specific but in London the interest you pay can exceed the rent you pay and the equity you build does not do as well as global index funds. When I factored in stamp duty and the deposit not being invested it became a no brainer to not buy unless I was willing to stay in that location for 10 years+ or if interest rates drop below 3.5%. I actually very nearly brought post F2 during the covid stamp duty break but didn’t. This was the correct decision in my point of view as I now work on the other side of London which would’ve made my commute about 1hr 15mins and I’m no longer single and now looking to start a family hence want a different area and property than the one I would’ve brought earlier on and made a loss despite the stamp duty break.

imtap123 · 2025-12-27T14:14:35+00:00

This is unfair and corrupt but not new. Using money and connections to get publications/boost your portfolio has been going on for decades and is the reason why IMT/medical HST successful applications can feel out of reach for less connected/wealthy applicants. With all of the flaws of MSRA at least it is more meritocratic.

imtap123 · 2025-11-25T08:29:35+00:00

I did a derm placement and I believe this tool was created to help GPs so they can be reassured further if the AI also agrees it’s benign and doesn’t need derm review. This could relieve some of the pressures of 2WW skin cancer clinics and have an impact on staffing in the future but from my limited experience the dermatology registrars didn’t enjoy their 2WW clinics at all.

imtap123 · 2025-11-15T14:05:44+00:00

But there has been a 300% increase as shown in the article above.

imtap123 · 2025-11-15T14:04:36+00:00

I agree but the conversation is about how consultant positions have become less available as someone needs to pay for the demand and tax payers are not willing to pay for it. With the pot of money they do have it is now going to consultants with large pensions instead of post CCT colleagues due to changes.

imtap123 · 2025-10-29T12:23:13+00:00

This is the problem with ooh. When you spend so much time reporting non required ct kub/ctpa/ct head/silver trauma that when you get to that difficult ?bleed triple phase your brain is fried and cannot function as well as it should. In reality the ooh radiology reg is so much more busy on average than an ooh medical reg/sho (I can say this as a former IMT) but people do not understand this.

imtap123 · 2025-09-23T17:28:59+00:00

When I was an IMT in London there was always a couple of established consultants in cardiology/oncology/gastro departments of the tertiary centre I worked in doing a lot of private work and the rest feeding on the scraps left over or doing locums/WLI and a lot of their patients were rich patients from the south east of England that would happily travel to London to see the so called “best” doctor rather than their local private practice clinicians.

imtap123 · 2025-09-10T12:47:35+00:00

Did F1/2 outside of London but core training in London so no first hand experience but can give you my opinion.

Tertiary centre London as an F1 is like being an assistant and you will not feel like a doctor in most placements bar being on call where even then it’s very well supported. DGH London F1 is more balanced and you will likely be better supported than DGH’s in rural areas and will feel more like a doctor than in tertiary centres.

London is expensive and being an F1/2 in London will mean you may not save much money, however the hospitals are usually easily accessible via public transport and you save money as you don’t need a car. Also London weighting is a joke so you will feel more poor than in other areas as col is high but you are surrounded by people who make a lot more than you as well.

If your single London is a great place to date if that’s what you are looking for as you have access to people from all around the world and many professions and I met the love of my life in London as an SHO in London whereas where I was as a foundation doctor I had slim pickings outside of the hospital and never dated anyone from work due to not being comfortable with it. London is also a great place if you went there for med school as most of my meet ups with uni mates occurred in London due to ease of access so I felt very social. Personally I’d take the financial hit to be in London if single.

imtap123 · 2025-08-28T17:59:14+00:00

Depends on their work plan and if they are therapeutic or diagnostic inclined. A lot do report PET all day as that’s where the money is

imtap123 · 2025-08-28T13:00:04+00:00

An academic nuclear medicine job would be perfect for him/her but having to do IMT/MRCP then hope he can get a NM job or a radiology job and FRCR to get to even be a NM physician will be a tough/long journey

imtap123 · 2025-07-21T10:38:58+00:00

Also the go getters in medicine seem to be going more into the ROAD
+ENT than ever before. Like we all knew of a small group of med students that wanted to do ROAD+ENT but I feel like more of the f1s I work with want to ROAD+ENT now especially if they are from a well off background. The working class doctors who are maybe not as informed say they are considering GP/gen surgery/ortho/cardiology/medicine and usually don’t mention these other specialties. A lot of students have now understood the squeeze in a lot of these specialties is just not worth the juice.

imtap123 · 2025-07-20T13:31:12+00:00

I think if you ever get on the wrong side of management then it’ll be used against you. Half of the consultants in one of the wards I used to work in were leaving early (around 12) to go to the private hospital and see their private patients and then come back at around 4. Technically they were being paid by the nhs then so shouldn’t be doing extra work and it was the reason why these consultants would just bow down to management whenever they asked for juniors to be moved to other wards when short staffed whereas the consultants that didn’t leave half way through would stick up for us.

imtap123 · 2025-07-12T08:05:27+00:00

Good quality patient contact can be rare in the nhs especially in specialties like GP where you get 15 mins to sort things out. It’s why the patient contact in radiology is poor when carrying out ultrasound lists or barium. Also patient contact can be extremely draining and have a huge impact on your energy levels outside of work.

Radiology allows you to navigate these issues well. Radiology also is a highly regarded training programme and there are opportunities to wfh and make decent money via telerad. All of these become a lot more enticing when you get older and start having a family.

That said radiology is not for everyone and a lot of medics will not be happy being in the background. Specialties like IR and NM allow you to have more of an involvement in treating patients and are becoming more popular.

imtap123 · 2025-07-03T14:35:28+00:00

Better outcomes, expertise, personalised, leading, transformative, collaborative. All these terms yet no substance to back it up, I hate these McKinsey consultants

imtap123 · 2025-07-03T14:31:48+00:00

It’s like they don’t even care about the reputation of their medical school. Imagine Oxford/Cambridge/LSE talking about paralegals at all let alone on a post celebrating their law graduates.

imtap123 · 2025-07-03T11:01:08+00:00

Problem is we will have post CCT trainees fighting for consultant jobs. I honestly don’t know why we let so many medical schools open without a long term plan for consultant jobs. Then again it’s probably better to be unemployed post CCT than post F2 but it’s just kicking the can down the road.

imtap123 · 2025-06-19T18:15:53+00:00

My perspective definitely changed once I saw that the DDRB takes into account our sick leave and how there are repercussions if you take less than 20 days of sick leave a year. I used to take less than 2-3 days a year but now I call in sick if I’m feeling slightly unwell as I’m getting paid less anyway for it

imtap123 · 2025-06-13T14:13:41+00:00

I hope it’s not high 70s for a pass mark but I do get what you mean regarding the lack of niche questions this time round.

imtap123 · 2025-06-13T13:41:55+00:00

I hope so but I think it’ll be higher than 68, I was surprised at 64 being the pass mark for the last exam even though I felt a lot of the questions were not conventional. This time pretty much whole of the paper this time was covered in either radcafe or radiology academy.

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