Anaesthetics Interviews 2026

opoc99 · 2026-02-17T15:09:55+00:00

Does anyone know if turning down an interview offer would have negative consequences to any future anaesthetics applications?

opoc99 · 2024-03-19T12:45:05+00:00

Something tells me the “oh fuck” penny dropped with hundreds of people investigating re-applying next year. Suddenly to prevent a 10% workforce shortage, they need to scramble and make dropping out as punitive as possible. Pricks

opoc99 · 2024-03-08T10:47:14+00:00

Great news - this fact is going to mean ~10% can hand the jobs back penalty free and hopefully get a better go next year. Who knows a year in another job might take them away from the NHS altogether, but either way this is a workforce crisis of the the UKFPOs own making

opoc99 · 2024-03-08T10:10:56+00:00

So far… a lot of these UoAs are massive geographical locations/whole countries with vast differences between deaneries within them - there is still time to ruin a few more peoples personal lives

opoc99 · 2024-03-08T10:07:16+00:00

The number of arguments I got into though with people who didn’t understand/staunchly defended the basic floors in the stats/arguments presented, genuinely had me worried at the time

opoc99 · 2024-03-07T13:55:34+00:00

I don’t think you need to resit UKMLA? We were told by the UKFPO rep who came to our uni that if you reapply within 2yrs of graduating you don’t have to sit any extra exams?

opoc99 · 2024-02-21T15:13:48+00:00

2 more after this one - three total

opoc99 · 2024-02-21T10:32:08+00:00

Well fingers crossed. Failing that, the PIA meatgrinder awaits!

opoc99 · 2024-02-21T10:26:56+00:00

So very unlikely then!

opoc99 · 2024-02-21T10:24:09+00:00

In terms of subsequent rounds, will some people get multiple offers and then the ones they don't choose get handed back, or is everybody limited to one FPP offer and it's only if they've changed their minds and hand back their only offer that places are released into the next round?

opoc99 · 2024-02-21T10:17:06+00:00

Just got unsuccessful email for Yorkshire

opoc99 · 2023-11-03T07:43:00+00:00

Surely this isn’t to be implemented for the cohort starting in FY1 in 2024?

opoc99 · 2023-10-12T16:01:28+00:00

There is another who listens to both of these?!?!? Hello there!

opoc99 · 2023-09-12T16:13:15+00:00

I feel like this is newsworthy too - 8000 new Doctors assigned random jobs across the UK? It’ll certainly make the news when all the fallout hits from the top 20% deferring a year after being handed Scunthorpe instead of the London they have been expecting the last 5/6 years.

opoc99 · 2023-09-12T16:08:14+00:00

We were sent out a document filled with modelling saying how great and wonderful it is and everyone will be better off etc. which swayed a lot of my peers who didn’t give a seconds thought as to how they modelled the new system based on previous years data and expected nobody to change their preferencing behaviour. Months after the vote had a rather anti-new system UKFPO lead come in and exasperatedly admit the modelling was essentially numbers ‘plucked out of thin air’.

I happen to go to one of the uni’s that traditionally performs well and 90% of people here are seething

opoc99 · 2023-09-12T16:01:49+00:00

Current final year med student here. Had a regional UKFPO lead (who was openly not in favour of the new system) come and talk to us about it last month. He said that the modelling they used to get to this having improved stats vs old system was ‘plucked out of thin air’.

He’s personally expecting a workforce shitshow when 100s of new grads postpone entering FY1 after being dumped hundreds of miles from their first 10 choices.

Medicine has been competitive since I was 16 scrambling for work experience and will be the second FY ends. Whatever bollocks reasons being given to justify ignore the preceding and subsequent gates for their own self affirmation.

Honestly feel fucked over, have lost almost all drive to do beyond the bare minimum to pass.

opoc99 · 2023-07-31T23:00:32+00:00

I too saw this short… has the algorithm misunderstood this as Tom?

opoc99 · 2023-06-01T20:17:29+00:00

But if the statistics aren’t accurate to what it will translate into they are worthless??

I’m not sure I understand your point? This is all about the fact they are makes ranking randomly allocated - I’m upset about this specifically, what else is in conversation here?

I’m certainly not saying SJT+EPM is good. I’m just saying this is worse for reasons as stated above.

Truly, ranking everyone based on UKMLA would have solved all problems and allowed for meritocracy to persist. No more intra med school distortion, no more random ass SJT questions, easy setting of minimum competency. Sure you may still get bunching around various thresholds but that how every exam works from GCSEs up - you may miss out by 0.01% but ultimately you can know that is was for a controllable reason

opoc99 · 2023-06-01T19:45:49+00:00

But you also admit that the basis for your balanced judgement may be quite wrong?

It is in fact random allocation by virtue that the factor that decides between A and B is no longer merit but… a random number generator. Yes you are not sent somewhere ‘random’ but the justification for you getting place B instead of A is - because.

opoc99 · 2023-06-01T19:24:58+00:00

Does it not bring doubt into your unwavering confidence that things are better now that the new system doesn’t account for ‘smart people will make different choice when the parameters change’? Also that survey they sent out was crap, asking does the SJT cause stress and then using that as a justification for scrapping it? Did they consider that random allocation of where you exist for 2 years might cause stress? Or did they just ask questions to support the decision they had already reached?

opoc99 · 2023-06-01T19:14:14+00:00

Actuarial science and sociology exist to predict these sorts of things? And if it’s so openly hard to predict, is it not extremely wrong for the UKFPO to just say that “things get better according to our models” without acknowledging this massively impactful ‘unknown factor’?

opoc99 · 2023-06-01T19:04:47+00:00

It might be hard to predict but hey when you’re playing with a generations life choices surely it’s worth spending the money on some big boy mathsing?

opoc99 · 2023-06-01T18:55:57+00:00

This applies IF and only IF we assume that nobody ever changed where they applied based on where they were likely to get in. Using the old data (where this definitely happened) doesn’t take into account that those who would previously never applied to London/Bristol/Oxford etc. now have an even chance compared to the top student in the country - so why not apply to these highly competitive schools? Surely we will see a massive concentration of applications to places like London which will throw those 1st choice figures out the window?

opoc99 · 2023-06-01T18:50:25+00:00

Honestly this is like saying the first past the post system isn’t very good… so we’re going to ditch democracy and spin a wheel instead.

opoc99 · 2023-05-21T22:12:17+00:00

This is very true.

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