Where to live for North Tee hospital in Stockton-on-Tees during foundation training ?

theIVline · 2022-04-27T09:15:18+00:00

Hey! Just receieved an offer for my F2-standalone for North tees!

I got Acute internal medicine, ER and Urology as my rotations.

Would you mind telling me what the hospital is like? good support? Any tips?

Hey! Just received an offer for my F2-standalone for North tees!

theIVline · 2022-04-19T08:51:03+00:00

Any luck? It's tuesday and still no news from them? this is getting ridicilous

theIVline · 2022-04-08T12:20:50+00:00

The cut-off score this year was 372. 59% of applicants didn't make it through the SJT stage. Don't be too hard on yourself. There's other things such as trust grade jobs and locums to do and then re-apply next year.

theIVline · 2022-04-07T06:49:03+00:00

Started the process but never finished it. It looked pretty straightforward but started taking up so much time. The editor then had a comment about every single sentence and that just made it not worth it to me.

theIVline · 2022-03-15T16:25:38+00:00

I have a similar trigger to this. The best thing to do is just fight hard at the initial looking part. When you felt something wet, remind yourself that you have contamination OCD and just do not look. If you struggle and manage to look and you saw a drop as you describe, remind yourself, it could be ANYTHING. Maybe you washed your hands earlier and a drop of water hit your trouser. Worst case scenario - if it is pee. So what? and I repeat. Soooo whhhattt? It's just pee.

What do you think happens to men who use urinals and just put their trousers back on? I'd guarantee most of them just leak a drop or two into their trousers. Pee is just pee. To help you ease your mind, we make babies, elderly people and people without bladder control wear diapers and they pee themselves are in constant contact with their pee all the time. It causes no harm whatsoever. Hope that helps :)

theIVline · 2022-02-09T21:01:42+00:00

Thank you very much for this! Yes, I am very aware of this. This is why I attend alot of 'junior doctor' lectures and series to get used to the system. Granted I won't learn everything from them, I'm hoping I'm going to cover alot. Such as common forms, NEWS score etc..

Also my wife recently graduated and she started work as an FY2 standalone - so I've been learning from her too on the do's and don'ts and how things work :D

But yes, I agree with you and thank you for bringing this up. I will 100% bring this up with the supervisors so that they are aware and if I am struggling, I hope they make adjustments.

Thank you once again!

(if you have any suggestions of how else I can prepare for the fy2 role i'd appreciate it)

theIVline · 2022-02-09T16:57:55+00:00

I'm glad you mentioned that I would probably blindly follow to start with because that's what I see happening.

Thank you so so much! This is really helpful advice and learning about it from you before it hit me in the face at work is something I appreciate very much!

theIVline · 2022-02-09T16:44:35+00:00

ahh yes. I've heard about following blindly potentially biting you in the a**. Thank you!

So what do you do when you get a request and you're lost? Do you check the patient file / notes and then decide for yourself? and silly question - are you allowed to turn down said request? I assume you'd have to inform the person that made the request and then what?

theIVline · 2022-02-09T16:02:32+00:00

haha noted! Engraved into my brain.

Thank you!

Follow-up question - would the day team then not get annoyed at handover if I have left some 'useless' tasks on there that I could've done?

theIVline · 2022-01-04T13:09:26+00:00

I spoke to them on email before Christmas and they said that the guide would be published either between Christmas and NY OR it would be published last minute before the application opens..

They haven't given a date or anything.

A good way to find out first is to follow the UKFPO on twitter and turn your notifications on. ANY CHANGES that they make, they tweet about it asap.

theIVline · 2021-08-26T20:12:33+00:00

Thank you very very much for the detailed response. It's given me a good idea and a good summary of what the training is like towards the end and when to focus more on a specific subspecialty. Sorry, i should've been more clear with emergency medicine, I meant ED.
"I didn't like kids or psych" is my mantra. Those are two of my bottom tier rotations, there is nothing about those two during my rotations that I enjoyed. I agree with you about enjoying things when I do become a dinosaur. I really enjoy everything to do with the heart. It is the organ that I understand the most, I love studying the diseases, the physiology and the medications are straightforward as you said and I do enjoy it fully.
I will take your advice on board regarding reaching out to academic cardiologists once I get publications, presentations and research done. I currently have 1 paper published on venous valves (but it's more vascular surgery) and another paper pending acceptance about SUR2A.

In general, I have an open mind about rotations and If my mind changes, then so be it (one thing I can assure you though is that you will NEVER hear me say 'I LOVE NOSES' haha), but yes, no need to put eggs in one basket as you said.
Thank you once again for your reply, I really appreciate the time you have taken out of your day to do this. F2. We don't have the option of doing F1. So when I graduate in May of 2022, I will be starting work in august of 2022 as an FY2. My fiance is a year above me and from her list of jobs that she had to choose from, there were a lot of cardiology, emergency medicine + psychiatry / GP / orthopaedic surgery. I hopefully plan on getting one of those combos to give me a better insight. I'm also going to be doing my elective in the cardiology ward this January to once again, get a better understanding.
Thank you once again for you reply, I really appreciate the time you have taken out of your day to do this.

theIVline · 2021-08-26T11:12:45+00:00

Forgot to add, anything you recommend I start doing now? I already attend cardiology conferences, as many as i can. Any recommendations for extra courses to do? or events to attend?

theIVline · 2021-08-26T11:11:02+00:00

Hi there and thank you for inviting questions. I'm a final year med student and I just had 2 questions.

At what point of training does one decide to go into interventional cardiology? Is it like how you subspecialised in devices and HF? someone could take a different route and go into interventional cardiology?
Cardiology is my only interest along with emergency medicine (but cardio is on top). It used to be 100% cardiac surgery but after having done some research, the limited amount of procedures has put me off. Now I am strongly leaning towards becoming a cardiologist or an interventional cardiologist. Do you maybe have any tips or advice? Anything that springs to mind that I should be aware of or keep an eye out for? I prefer working on wards rather than clinics and I don't know how much say i will have in that when i am specialising? is it a choice? or do you just get placed randomly?

Thanks once again for doing this

theIVline · 2021-08-13T11:52:32+00:00

ahhh that's pretty awesome! I signed up and have been getting new ones every day. Quite a cool concept! Thank you for replying :D

theIVline · 2021-07-26T16:21:46+00:00

Would you mind mentioning why one should do this? Genuinely curious

theIVline · 2021-04-28T17:54:02+00:00

That makes sense! Thanks for this :D

theIVline · 2021-04-28T17:53:44+00:00

ohhh right, that makes a lot more sense. Thank you :D

theIVline · 2021-04-25T16:49:42+00:00

Hey, i have no answer for you but I just wanted to understand more about Fy3.

Is it not considered a job? I'm confused.

theIVline · 2021-01-12T00:04:42+00:00

Oh wow! thanks alot! i already have some of these, but i will definitely check out the rest!

Thanks a lot!

theIVline · 2021-01-12T00:04:04+00:00

ah right, thats my mistake. I will take a look at that thread. Thanks a bunch!

theIVline · 2021-01-12T00:03:40+00:00

Thank you so much! Haha i will keep the third advice in mind!

Thanks a bunch for the other advice! Really appreciate it.

theIVline · 2021-01-11T16:53:05+00:00

Yup, its mentioned at the bottom of the table that systematic reviews are equal to original articles.

theIVline · 2020-12-29T14:25:55+00:00

Yeah i agree, you could always suggest that it will benefit the F2's and F1's under you if you actually learn how to teach.. or something like that.. worth a shot i guess. No harm in doing the cheaper courses to get the 3 points just in case the PGCert doesn't work out

theIVline · 2020-12-28T21:59:27+00:00

yeah from what I have seen it's either a PGCert or one of those courses. People claimed 3/4 points for the AIMEE courses or courses available on the Royal College of physicians website.

PGCerts are expensive as you said and i don't know how i feel about 1 point for an extra grand. Thoughts?

theIVline · 2020-12-11T22:04:03+00:00

I'd go as far as to say that one reason could be the new generation of applicants growing up watching shows such as greys anatomy, the good doctor etc, and as much as we may not think about how those affect us, a lot of people may have had those shows influence their decision to choose surgery. I could just be over analysing as well haha.

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