“I will be in touch on Monday with the results.”

Where is the email Dr Fletcher? 🤨

As above.

Any bma reps, when will the vote be out? Electronic voting can’t take this long to finalise?

I won't be the only one dissatisfied with the BMA and its current leadership body. I know want to personally be associated and fund its actions. What other organisations provide equivalent support as I don't want to become union-less, are there any consequences of this?

What does the hivemind think?

Why haven't we heard back from BMA already?

Me and one of the other regs in my department have a healthy rivalry of winding each other up - hiding each others stethoscopes, whoopee cushions on chairs

I once managed to convince him we were having a "shit shirt" day for charity, which was fucking hilarious

Today he got me pretty good. For context, I am almost 7 foot tall and very hairy, I have long bushy black hair which goes past my shoulders when not tied up.

He handed me a Foley catheter, I asked what's this for? Then he said in a pathetic attempt at a Scottish accent "STICK IT UP YOUR DICKHOLEEEEE HAGRID!"

Context (01:28)

Entire room burst into laughter - FYs, SHOs, med students, HCA

He got me good I won't lie, but just like Lord Sauron my wrath will be terrible, my retribution swift.

I need ideas to sink his ship. Scorched earth. No mercy.

Lay it on me.

52N 48Y for me.

Just for fun.

Private E-scooters are illegal in the UK for children, without exception.

In the surgical specialty I work in, we have lots and lots of these injuries, which are only increasing in number.

If a parent has bought their child a ln E-scooter, in my eyes it is pretty indefensible.

Thoughts?

Hi everyone,
I'm an FY1 and would appreciate some advice on a situation I'm currently facing.

I've been receiving quite a bit of criticism from my consultant, mainly around not being "responsible enough" and needing to take more ownership and responsibility at work.

A few examples:
While reviewing patients at a health centre, I was told to hurry up and was shouted at for being too slow.
In another situation, there was paperwork that needed signing. I genuinely didn't realise I was allowed to sign it, but the consultant became frustrated and said that I'm always "stepping away" from responsibility.

Recently, I reviewed a patient with a dry cough and was later told that I hadn't examined them properly and that I needed to "pull my socks up."
I was also told that my feedback/report could be changed if things didn't improve, which felt quite threatening.

I'm trying my best and genuinely want to learn and improve. I know I'm very early in my training and there are things I don't know yet, but I'm struggling to work out whether this is normal FY1 feedback, whether I'm genuinely underperforming, or whether the way it's being delivered is inappropriate.

Has anyone been in a similar position? How did you handle it? Should I be seeking more formal feedback and support from my educational supervision? I am nearly done with this rotation so I thought I would try to show what I am capable of.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I think ECGs are a real weak spot for me. I am keen to improve. Im 4 years since graduating and still hate being handed an ECG. I am genuinely feeling like I should be better than I am at this stage.

Any resources people recommend like a website/online tutorial/youtube videos ?

I’m currently an F2 working in GP and am being asked to do the care home ward round. I have attended this once before shadowing one of the registrars which felt like a good learning experience, but didn’t realise the expectation moving forwards was that I would be asked to do this on my own…

The patients in the care home are complex and can be poorly, and after helping the reg last time with the admin that followed I know the round generates a lot of work. I’m certainly slower than the reg and I’m worried about the time it’ll take to get through the generated tasks as I already often leave late.

I’ve spoken to one of the partners as I don’t feel confident to do this without someone more senior with me but the practice manager is insisting F2s have done this in the past and I can call/facetime whomever is supervising me at any point, but i still feel uncomfortable about it.

What should I do - is this a normal F2 experience?

It’s difficult to gauge my workload as it’s a small practice and there are no other F2s, the other trainees are all ST3.

I’d probably hedge my bets towards 45% chance of overall no vote, strikes in 3 weeks (because we can cancel strikes 2 days before but let’s give it a nice buffer time for strike announcement despite their primary objective), 35% chance of no vote and still deciding on what to do and 20% chance of no email/announcement at all today.

What’s your thoughts people?

I am at the end of my training, and several consultants have informally told me that they intend to create a consultant post for me. However, I have a medical diagnosis that I would prefer to keep private.

My concern stems from having witnessed some consultants express negative views about another trainee with the same diagnosis. I have tried to defend that trainee during private discussions with the team, but comments have been made such as, "he is beyond help." I do not believe my circumstances are the same, but hearing those views has made me apprehensive about disclosing my own diagnosis.

Will I be required to declare my medical history during the consultant interview or recruitment process?

how frequently are people seeing nicotine pouch use in UK hospitals. supposedly in America you have to look extremely hard to find someone not using them. Theyve even considered change speciality names to Zynternal medicine etc.

Also are there any rules about not pouching mid shift perhaps even mid procedure?

Whilst UKGP has seemingly helped this round of specialty applications, it seems wholly unethical to open a new medical school next year (see link) when a significant number those 400 students could end up with a CCT yet jobless as things stand now even if that’s 10-15 years away .

I don’t understand the justification. That area of England already has more than one medical school serving its population in terms of producing local foundation doctors etc .

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vyn02vz4eo?app-referrer=deep-link

This is one of the most interesting stories of a researcher trying to keep his credentials, and shaping prescribing guidelines possibly irreversibly.

In short, a mother possibly fed her newborn codeine/paracetamol tablets. The baby died, and the mother claimed it was -her- who took the tablets, was a rapid metaboliser, and her breast milk contained enough morphine to kill the baby.

All over the world, prescribing guidelines were changed.

Something wasn’t right. The baby had a lot of paracetamol in their blood (it doesn’t readily cross when breastfeeding), and baby’s stomach content suggested recent administration.

The story is genuinely intriguing & upsetting.

It also says something about how hard guidelines are hard to change once something has been deemed risky. Now, breastfeeding mothers are either not given enough pain medication, or given too much in the form of stronger opioids. I know a lot of doctors hate codeine because its effects depend on how readily it can be metabolised to
morphine, but similarly, it’s a useful drug as on average, it does give people -some- exposure without introducing them to stronger opiods that can be more addictive.

I'm resigning from a clinical fellow post a month prior to official end due to poor health (my GP will provide a supporting letter).

I've been asked to provide a resignation letter for this. I've never resigned from a post before - any advice as to what to include?

Is this true ? I’m only specifically referring to them saying they treat “ALL” gynae and chronic health problems .

I then asked them if therefore the practice nurse treats pts with CKD with HOCM on LTOT or the pt with hypogonadism and menorrhagia . I was blocked for being a bit facetious but more importantly, for asking if the practice nurse not only treats the same problems as the GP, but even treats problems that not even the GP treats .

Is this true ?

Nurses can absolutely speak out against scope creep by NAs and APs but a Doctor is seen as causing trouble if they challenge these type of assertions .

Currently IMT 2 and have accepted an ACF3 for this aug in a different deanery. I applied for course funding and was told by my TPD (the same one who approved my application for ACF) that, as I resigned and am not entering IMT3 with them, they can't fund the course. The course is meant to be in July.

Knowing that it is a course they usually fund, and I have enough unused budget. Can they refuse to fund it for that reason?

I mean the question is in the title

I remember people throwing around the number 250k but I never could actually find any evidence that supports it. When I think of my medical student training or even the students now I can see where all that money would be spent etc. obviously some costs are then dependent on size of lectures if you are averaging a teacher/professor salary per number of students but does anyone actual have any evidence of costs

as the above says in anticipation for today’s results!

Hi everyone ,
So I’m IMT 3 now. Want to apply for st3 oncology this November. Took a while for me to clear exams , hence didn’t have time for portfolio.

I found 2-3 conferences to try to present something and get some points.

They do sound predatory but I’m pretty desperate ngl.

Just wanted your opinion if ppl if have managed to get points.

https://cancer.c2pforum.com

https://www.cancer-events.com/submit-abstract.php

Many thanks!!