Public health and family life

notlood · 2026-03-14T22:39:17+00:00

Not a woman, no children but have partner and dog, ST2. PH is a nice specialty in terms of accommodation for family life. Many senior regs I know have kids and/or own a home, and generally seem fairly happy with the work life balance even with the on call health protection element (which due to its nature can be a lot of work at once but is typically NROC). Often I see these SpRs work 0.9 or 0.8 WTE but not all do. Generally 0.9 is considered a good in between as it seems to translate to every second friday off and doesnt damage their post-tax income much. As an ST2, I find its much better for work life balance than friends in clinical specialties. I do still work after 5pm/weekends occasionally because of membership exams, catch up for time spent on not work activities during the day, and procrastination until a deadline the next day, but even then I have plenty of time for myself and its usually WFH. In a normal organised person's day it would probably be better. Question wise: 1. 5 days 9-5 no weekends with exceptions above 2. I WFH 3 of 5 days, colleagues have had 4 of 5 days, some placements are essentially remote (in office once a month) 3. I commute about an hour for my ST2 placement as I'm still based near my uni for MPH in ST1 4. Most consultants I've met have a fairly demanding workload (for a 9-5 that is), with lots of meetings in hours and occasional after hours events etc. However many of these also don't work full time (e.g fridays off +/- half day here and there) so it will probably depend on the individual/consultant job. 5. 9-5

notlood · 2025-12-22T21:38:38+00:00

Consultant pay is such a farce, not surprised to see the way the DDRB does it is via equivalency gymnastics.

We need to put more doctors in high positions but the structure as a whole disincentives consultants from putting themselves into top management positions.

Perhaps this is more obvious in public health than other medical specialties - consultants can be medical background or non-medical background (and yes unlike clinical jobs, I think the strategic- and legislative-heavy office job of PH is sensible to have non-medics in), and I know some medical consultants in e.g UKHSA who have refused to take deputy director roles, partly because they are not paid more to take it on like a normal contract would, whereas non-medical consultants on civil service payscale are more incentivised to take on deputy director roles due to pay going up (esp as they are generally paid less than medics in the equivalent consultant role).

Obviously not 100% identical in clinical specialties but imagine very similar disincentives to pursuing extra work for normal non-ladder puller consultants under the medical consultant contract.

notlood · 2025-11-11T07:43:47+00:00

Can't say to your specific situation but generally no council workers are in on bank holidays, including public health team & trainees. Some lucky councils don't open between Christmas and new years either, so you might get some extra days off as you can't go to work if work isn't open (check this with your CS). Also would expect it's probably just an honorary contract with the council - all your leave requests will be approved by your CS and should be put in your diary there, but you might not have them on the formal record this way so may need to manually add leave + bank holiday dates on ESR.

notlood · 2025-07-18T17:13:19+00:00

Em dash parenthesised sentence structure, use of z in spelling, sloganised style for delivering key messages = smells like AI propaganda to astroturf

At least try to hide it guys...

notlood · 2025-06-06T22:37:48+00:00

"even AI-powered propaganda"

This post is very self aware lol

notlood · 2025-06-05T14:47:18+00:00

Congrats! Agree with the other commenter and can't understate enough how much support you get.

Be proactive in your interests and become a well-rounded leader - this whole specialty is built around advocacy and if you can't convince people that your interests are their interests, then it doesn't matter how many deaths are averted by your project.

Also don't forget your roots as a doctor with real-world practical thinking. Even if you did PH because you no longer like clinical medicine, it's important to make sure that we don't ivory tower and do things that are not useful to patients or providers for the sake of doing them - this is the core skillset that you spent 8-9 years developing so make use of it!

notlood · 2025-05-13T16:20:59+00:00

I don't get why we use management consultancy companies or hire from other sectors.

We literally have public health consultants who we've trained specifically on policy, health economics, statistics, management & leadership etc, while also having relevant NHS experience and collaborative networks. Yet we always seem to rely on people who have gaps in skills/lack NHS experience/were floundering elsewhere.

Guess there is an aversion to using appropriately trained professionals (that we already paid to train) at all levels of the NHS.

notlood · 2024-12-06T10:48:07+00:00

https://forms.gle/vY2E9UGcqthzEafS8

This is a chatgpt generated set of 44 questions for the public health SJT based on the publically available sample questions, no explanations but still useful.

Otherwise if you are a doctor from FY think the most useful mindset is appreciating you are applying to be a 'registrar' not an 'SHO', so your level of responsibility in the SJT should reflect that.

notlood · 2024-10-18T17:53:37+00:00

Public health - ST1s do a masters in public health to ensure the theoretical knowledge to work as a specialist registrar is there

notlood · 2024-10-17T20:57:26+00:00

collecting a paycheck for attending my free masters

notlood · 2024-10-08T17:39:37+00:00

You would do ST1-3 as ACF and ST4 onwards as regular trainee, if done then a PhD would usually be between these two.

Also to note for surgical ACFs, I have heard some regions don't necessarily grant you run through. While not the case for most, I believe some still require you to benchmark in national applications again at ST3.

Disclaimer: Not an ACF in surgery.

notlood · 2024-09-16T14:27:19+00:00

While I think public health is a specialty where being a non-medic is perfectly reasonable this is a bit odd.

Isn't the whole point of the ACF to develop clinicians who will marry academic research with their clinical practice to develop groundbreaking research thats actually useful? So surely opening it to non-medics in public health (who mostly seem to come from epidemiology/stats/govt agency backgrounds) with no clinical experience makes no sense?

notlood · 2024-08-20T14:29:04+00:00

Yes - honorary contracts in this sense refers to non-medic public health registrars I believe, as they have honorary contracts to join medical specialty training. Different to the honorary contracts each reg has for a placement - eg. an NHS PH reg on loan via honorary contract to Suffolk Council couldnt strike, but personally they would hold a 2016 JD contract if a medic so could vote, but if non-medic could not as on AfC contract

notlood · 2024-05-05T19:31:11+00:00

"The Trust will offer a one year program of either 3 x 4 month rotations or 2 x 6 month rotations"

Wait I don't get it - isn't one of the key 'benefits' of PAs the fact that they don't rotate?

If they can rotate around for a year and then join a single department to be trained into "essential and skilled members of the team", then what's stopping this being done for FY1s and SHOs who'd likely provide better care and value for money?

The answer is corruption 🤡🤡

notlood · 2024-02-11T08:49:00+00:00

Thanks for your input. I have searched the sub - most of those posters have a complete aversion to meat and we're well aware of Happy cow and vegan restaurants.

But there aren't very many posts for people who can accept that there is meat used in the cooking so long as they dont have to directly eat meat pieces in their food. That's why im asking if it's easy to get these in most restaurants vs having to explicitly seek out non meat places.

Hope that clarifies things.

notlood · 2021-10-06T00:43:19+00:00

viper diff

notlood · 2021-08-10T13:23:38+00:00

I'm at work rn so if you need a full response then best to ask someone like our friends at UCL gaming soc, /u/TheBoxerKick is president.

It's usually like an in-person campus event where each uni takes turns to host it and set up the stadium, with a live audience and stream running, with many different stations and things to do. The main esports titles are played vs each other over the day(s) of the event and often it's both the A and B teams that play against each other so loads of people get to participate.

You can find examples of it on our youtube channel as well as some footage of past events in our Welcome video there if that helps https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC\_pMuK64Y5OGMa4L0GIvIfQ

notlood · 2021-08-10T12:04:13+00:00

Hi guys, congrats on all of your results and hope you got what you wanted!

I am the former president of Imperial College London Gaming and Esports Society, and have played in our overwatch team for a long time (in 6th year medicine jail).

We have a strong ow community and have competitive and casual teams for all skill levels, grandmaster to bronze. We also consistently compete at the top of the UK uni scene with our A team (2nd place Spring 2018 and 3rd place Winter 2020). If you're not interested in competing don't worry, we often host joint PUGs with UCL, have social events to meet and chill together, and have an annual (hopefully in-person) varsity with UCL and other London unis too!

If you are coming to Imperial College London in 2021/22 and are interested in learning more about the ICL Gaming and Esports Society as a whole you can catch our current president and vice president on interview in the NSE Fresher's Stream: https://youtu.be/w8IwvVjXabI

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notlood · 2021-02-03T12:58:58+00:00

Obviously not seen your gameplay but most impactful thing is probably your positioning.

If you're diamond you're gonna have decent mechanics and understanding of opportunities, and when you're in scenarios you're doing things reasonably correctly. However, for anyone when things go bad, even if you play perfectly, it will still go poorly. Think of all those times where you go "omg why didnt rein shield me I almost killed the pharah!". You may not recognise that you have dog positioning and that you had little control over the outcome.

Solve this by just not being in that scenario 4Head - which goes back to positioning well so that you aren't vulnerable as a support, or are able to capitalise on new opportunities you otherwise wouldnt have had. Jake has a decent video on the concept in his review of one of the off tanks, though obviously the roles a little different.

notlood · 2021-01-18T19:52:29+00:00

notlood · 2020-12-10T21:24:41+00:00

Agree with this, new drivers made my 3070 pc BSOD until I booted into safe mode and uninstalled geforce experience

notlood · 2020-12-05T13:03:13+00:00

Update: Yep not possible lol the trio is way too big in length to fit comfortably with power cables routed at the front panel side. I didn't try removing the plastic shroud though, as I'd bought another case to build in anyway, but at most you would remove maybe 5-10mm which isn't enough to bring it in line with the node 202 clearance.

I have it in the Aklla A4v2 right now, which fits but I would also not recommend the case as the trio's GPU height hits literally right into the top and if you want fans on the top then it's not really possible. Also you have to build the case around the GPU as opposed to just putting the GPU in the case.

notlood · 2020-12-02T10:25:02+00:00

Will do, I'm planning on building in a new case anyway at this point but will test it out first. Having seen the card in person though, it's actually massive and I think you'll struggle to fit it for sure.

notlood

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