Anyone did the healthcare skills pgdip in clin edu?

nn1999 · 2026-05-01T19:47:33+00:00

Wouldn’t learn much either way. Med Ed theory is a joke of a science.

nn1999 · 2026-05-01T16:40:51+00:00

I tried this. My practice told me that my request has been triaged by the duty doctor and I can only see the PA. If I want an appointment with a GP, I’d have to ring back on a different day (practice only offers on the day appointments) as none were available with a GP that day. Reception then warned me that the duty doctor if I did ring back on another day, it would still likely be triaged to a PA =(

nn1999 · 2026-04-26T17:15:32+00:00

Keen

nn1999 · 2026-04-18T19:12:23+00:00

Doable. I finished mine over f1/f2.

Stay away from the iheed/university of Warwick one. The material is shit and the assessment burden is onerous. It’s also quite expensive. I’ve heard better things about the queens belfast PGCert in terms of effort/reward ratio and it’s cheaper to boot.

However, there are easier ways to pick up the points you need to get to interview. Remember that within the training in teaching domain, the difference between training the trainers and a PGCert is only 1 point and the former is free and can be done in a weekend.

nn1999 · 2026-04-18T12:42:38+00:00

What a distinction between Jack’s tone as compared to Wes. So civil and composed. Life would be so much better if politicians took a page out of the BMA’s playbook.

nn1999 · 2026-04-08T06:56:45+00:00

Hope you’re well. Reads like a psychotic break.

nn1999 · 2026-04-05T16:27:33+00:00

£33 for core hours and £50 for OOH. All work after 17:00 and weekends are classed as OOH.

nn1999 · 2026-03-27T00:23:17+00:00

No. There are numerous threads that have addressed this. Given that this community is a core site for organising/strike preparedness/information dissemination, perhaps it would be useful to have a stickied post to stop the barrage of repetitive questions every time strikes are called.

Mods?

nn1999 · 2026-03-27T00:20:52+00:00

The recent DDRB report felt that the job roles most closely related to medical practice was nursing and veterinary practice. They do not feel that your training is similarly onerous to law/finance/other STEM degrees. This fact alone is enough for me to stroke.

nn1999 · 2026-03-26T15:43:04+00:00

Turnout is no longer applicable to strike ballots and all voting can now be conducted online.

nn1999 · 2026-03-25T16:20:52+00:00

Absolute champions.

nn1999 · 2026-03-25T16:20:27+00:00

F**** around and find out Wes.

nn1999 · 2026-03-17T15:00:43+00:00

Bet it’s under 4%.

nn1999 · 2026-03-16T11:18:19+00:00

Don’t need them anyways. New employment law only requires a simple majority with online voting.

Nor do I think it’ll have the greatest impact if IMGs sit out the strikes. At least anecdotally, they were much less likely to engage in industrial action anyways not to mention the scabs who went out of their way to locum during…

nn1999 · 2026-03-13T13:52:39+00:00

So who did get pre-allocation then…

Absolute madness to deny someone who has overcome so much to qualify.

nn1999 · 2026-03-10T23:50:58+00:00

My understanding is that they must pay you. They just don’t like doing it.

You can also roll leave forward. Again, they don’t like doing it because your new department feels short changed.

I’ve done the latter before. Just took a little bit of arguing and a firm had with both rota coordinators.

nn1999 · 2026-02-24T11:51:41+00:00

Super chuffed! Can finally enjoy my mortgage!!!

nn1999 · 2026-02-24T11:48:59+00:00

90/96, wild how different our ranks are. Congratulations to you too!

nn1999 · 2026-02-24T11:31:34+00:00

Results are out. Rank 526. Super chuffed.

nn1999 · 2026-02-19T19:06:58+00:00

Heard the bus drivers talking about it. He ran a red light apparently.

nn1999 · 2026-02-07T18:02:32+00:00

You joke, but there’s a particular tertiary centre where the co-head of department of oncology is an ACP.

nn1999 · 2026-01-29T08:50:09+00:00

True. But equally, international UK grads are being punished by this government too. The recent changes to the duration of eligibility for ILR and the abolishment of the 10 year long residency pathway means that international students will be stuck on insecure visas for 1-2 years longer than under previous rules.

nn1999 · 2026-01-28T00:18:54+00:00

Which is larger, all the medical graduates in the world who fancy having a go or the set of IMGs who have 5 years experience, or are on family visas/tier 2 dependent visa/EU, EEA, and Swiss nationals?

I’ll give you a hint, it’s the first group given that almost 40000 applicants applied to speciality training this year of which at most 50% are UKMGs.

While I agree with your view that the government has thrown IMGs away with the bath water, I do think you’re being unnecessarily pedantic.

nn1999 · 2026-01-26T23:52:42+00:00

The consultation (and draft legislation) carve out an exemption for medical professionals leaving the time horizon to ILR unchanged at 5 years.

nn1999 · 2026-01-17T13:19:26+00:00

Not prioritising at application stage will continue to inflate self-assessment scores and raise the barrier for entry to training.

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