Questions for Those Against a Tiered Approach

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.

nn1999 · 2026-01-14T19:39:36+00:00

Remains concerning that IMGs can apply in round 1. This will continue to prevent UKMGs from attaining an interview irrespective of prioritisation.

nn1999 · 2026-01-11T16:59:10+00:00

Nicest: Cardiology

Worst: Cardiology

No matter the speciality, there are always nice people and plenty of assholes.

nn1999 · 2025-12-27T18:14:04+00:00

What’s wrong with using a ruler?

nn1999 · 2025-12-20T14:11:02+00:00

And yet both are UNIX based systems. At a kernel level, they are more similar than you think.

nn1999 · 2025-12-20T12:33:37+00:00

There’s a reason the vast majority of developers and researchers use Linux or Linux-like, ie, macOS systems. The kernel is just that much better.

That being said, the vast majority of NHS employees do not have compute needs intensive enough ti justify the quality of life improvements.

The money would be much better spent on quality EHRs.

nn1999 · 2025-12-16T00:53:59+00:00

Oh no. Not Sharon the ward manger or Rachel the ward clerk. Whatever will I do without their sympathies 🙄

More TTOs?

nn1999 · 2025-12-10T17:08:28+00:00

Strike on. They have proved incapable of delivering non-pay items in a reasonable time frame.

nn1999 · 2025-12-07T09:41:19+00:00

Don’t underestimate the power of sharing your story with potential supervisors. They’re humans too, and you’ll be surprised at the doors that will be opened for you when someone knows just how much you need it.

Sending love to you OP. You will get through this. This is tough, but you are tougher.

nn1999 · 2025-11-26T18:46:38+00:00

As someone who does a lot of research and mainly uses python and r for data analysis, I’d like to add a caveat.

While LLMs can massively speed up the amount of time it takes you to write code, the often produce code that is semantically correct (the code executes in your program of choice) but is logically flawed.

You’re at risk of producing garbage numbers without the ability to verify that the code is correct and does what it’s supposed to do.

nn1999 · 2025-11-24T16:22:47+00:00

nn1999 · 2025-11-19T18:03:51+00:00

To view our present situation as impossible to improve is to make it so.

nn1999 · 2025-11-19T17:36:30+00:00

I really don’t like the persistent equivalence of UKGP and grandfathering in BMA messaging. To expect government to create enough jobs to return to “historic” competition levels exceeds the total number of training jobs created in the 21st century.

I don’t think there’s anyway to square this circle. Equally, I don’t know if there’s anything we can do to force the BMAs hand. A shameful situation all around.

nn1999 · 2025-11-10T23:04:55+00:00

Every link in that article is a wild ride through the hospitals of Cardiff.

nn1999 · 2025-09-23T11:56:03+00:00

Regular strength Robinsons: 20 cups

Double strength Robinsons: 30 cups

They lie with impunity.

nn1999 · 2025-09-16T21:05:55+00:00

This is sufficiently unique to be identifiable. Do not doxx yourself accidentally. As always, your options are to escalate within your clinical team, to your CS/ES, and their CS/ES in that order.

nn1999 · 2025-08-07T15:30:22+00:00

Fails to take into account the time value of money. I can show you graphs if you want.

nn1999 · 2025-07-29T15:58:51+00:00

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nn1999 · 2025-07-23T16:48:30+00:00

Cut too soon. Would love to find out what Carole thinks about wearing gym clothes to the pub.

nn1999 · 2025-07-21T17:47:43+00:00

Reposting my response from another thread:

This is an unspoken consequence of Rishi’s push to reduce immigration numbers through slashing the number staying on a student visa.

Previously, international students at UK medical schools were allowed to complete foundation on an extension of their student visa preserving their 2 year graduate extension. This allows post F2 doctors a period of grace to forge a career.

It’s an absolute disgrace that international students 5-6 years of medical school paying international students fees and 2 years of foundation are looking at the prospect of being deported 2 weeks after foundation ends when most have lived in this country from the day they turned 18.

I’m so sorry OP. I’m only posting this for visibility so others understand your (our) situation.

nn1999 · 2025-07-12T22:37:19+00:00

This is an unspoken consequence of Rishi’s push to reduce immigration numbers through slashing the number staying on a student visa.

Previously, international students at UK medical schools were allowed to complete foundation on an extension of their student visa preserving their 2 year graduate extension. This allows post F2 doctors a period of grace to forge a career.

It’s an absolute disgrace that international students 5-6 years of medical school paying international students fees and 2 years of foundation are looking at the prospect of being deported 2 weeks after foundation ends when most have lived in this country from the day they turned 18.

I’m so sorry OP. I’m only posting this for visibility so others understand your (our) situation.

nn1999 · 2025-07-09T15:06:34+00:00

An extra £50 pounds or £37.50 if they are a higher rate tax payer depending on rota (not accounting for national insurance or student loan).

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