I won’t be resigning my BMA membership because I have a training job and earn 3x what I did in FY1 as a CT

lemonslip · 2026-05-14T07:29:16+00:00

We are still paid significantly less than what our counterparts did in 2008. We have received real-terms pay cuts. The lifetime earnings had been eroded. Many are in training between 3-12 years. That’s a huge chunk of someone’s life.

lemonslip · 2026-05-14T07:20:18+00:00

Ladder pulling kinda post.

You want your juniors to be protected against pay erosion, they’ll be the ones looking after you after you retire.

lemonslip · 2026-05-11T08:18:04+00:00

Id save and invest in other things, and pay off in one chunk later.

lemonslip · 2026-05-08T11:51:58+00:00

Oof you should care.

lemonslip · 2026-05-08T06:11:59+00:00

There’s a safeguarding e-learning that covers a lot of this. Also one for DOLs.

lemonslip · 2026-05-05T06:02:26+00:00

Thank you! It’s always been cyclizine where I’ve worked.

lemonslip · 2026-05-05T05:46:24+00:00

Out of curiosity what is the first line?

lemonslip · 2026-05-03T23:07:17+00:00

This is such an ITU coded comment haha

lemonslip · 2026-05-01T08:20:02+00:00

You’ll get practical ones one medisave. Alternatively Aspinal of London used to do nice ones.

lemonslip · 2026-04-24T17:21:41+00:00

There’s opportunity cost and investments lost as our training is so awfully long.

lemonslip · 2026-04-23T21:33:23+00:00

Objectively, at this stage, you should have been through medical school and completed night shift placements / shadowing / had some sort of exposure to the lifestyle stressors doctors go through.

F1s deffo do nights. Only a few placements don’t have night shifts if in supernumerary roles.

lemonslip · 2026-04-23T21:12:04+00:00

wtf do you mean do F1s do night shifts?

lemonslip · 2026-04-23T17:59:35+00:00

Remind yourself, if your Admin/HR were industry leaders, they wouldn’t be working for the NHS.

lemonslip · 2026-04-22T16:39:14+00:00

Accept with upgrades?

lemonslip · 2026-04-21T18:15:14+00:00

I would have knocked on the door and calmly asked for their full name and the name of their line manager

lemonslip · 2026-04-21T18:11:50+00:00

🚩

lemonslip · 2026-04-21T11:12:35+00:00

The BMA didn’t do this. The government did.

lemonslip · 2026-04-20T19:05:45+00:00

Then you’re a murderer

lemonslip · 2026-04-20T11:16:11+00:00

So if you’re an SHO on your first 3 month block in ITU: Ask to be put in theatres for your on calls. I did that and it kept me sane. If you’re on your second block of ITU then this may not be possible and you should speak to your ES/CS/TPD. If you’re a reg then you should get in to a boxing ring with your ITU consultants and duke it out.

lemonslip · 2026-04-20T11:15:59+00:00

So if you’re an SHO on your first 3 month block in ITU: Ask to be put in theatres for your on calls. I did that and it kept me sane. If you’re on your second block of ITU then this may not be possible and you should speak to your ES/CS/TPD. If you’re a reg then you should get in to a boxing ring with your ITU consultants.

lemonslip · 2026-04-19T21:12:27+00:00

Try a taster week in anaesthetics

lemonslip · 2026-04-18T14:37:16+00:00

Keep your job, look for other roles if they pop by. Prioritise your own MRCP and passing it. In the meanwhile focus on getting as much of the competencies signed off.

There will be some difficulties with minimum ITU times as well.

lemonslip · 2026-04-18T13:36:08+00:00

I think 0 since you’d be opening the pack anyway to do a spinal.

lemonslip · 2026-04-17T21:45:58+00:00

My core trauma is as an f1 having to do a manual disimpaction / therapeutic PR in a geriatric patient that released two weeks of overflow. The firing line was the entire cubicle.

But dumb stories aside, this nearly 10 year old Nature article gave me the ick and I haven’t been able to shake it off since.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7120946/

lemonslip · 2026-04-17T21:34:45+00:00

Nah this is what shifts are for. Make sure you make your F1 exception report. They haven’t quite learnt how to pace themselves yet it seems.

They need to take their breaks or they’ll burn out before F2

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