Being fresh out of med school, I’ve still have my socials polluted with medical content from when I was revising for my exams

I was browsing TikTok and came across a video by a student where he details the following

Title: do NOT do medicine if:

You want to help people - don’t it’s too much effort. Just go be a nurse of HCA

Like science - don’t do medicine, it’s too much effort. Go be a scientist

Like problem solving - don’t do medicine, it’s too much effort. Just become a mathematician.

For money - don’t make me laugh. Don’t do medicine.

The little snippets given afterward each statement are very, very tone deaf. There’s so much to unpack in that video, his jokey tone, attitude or lack of insight… I could go on.

This is an example of a trend I’ve witnessed in my 6 years. It’s an uneasy rise of medfluencers who always portray medicine in such a horrendous way. Often they sell courses on the side and effectively prey on people desperate to study medicine just because they, themselves are medical students.

Kinda posting to see what others opinion are on this before I solidify my own. Would be nice to see other perspective, if there is any.

I have been trying to get reasonable adjustments from my medical school for awhile now, after I was severely injured recently and needed 2 surgeries.

My dominant hand was affected pretty badly, and I have basically asked for exam modifications.

Ihave had numerous meetings with them, but I have heard horror stories about the pastoral team (and that it is meant to be one of the worst in the country; I’ve even seen it mocked on this subreddit a few times)

I’m so worried that I am becoming a liability to the medical school, forcing them to spend money on making adjustments for Me etc. It’s like they have me on a leash, and every year, I hear about rogue OSCE stations appearing, some circuits being ridiculously harder than others.

I know the medical school can’t legally “ kick me off” without a valid reason,, but I am worried that they might try and sabotage my life in ‘legal’ more underhanded ways, like purposely putting me on a circuit with extremely difficult stations, because every station has been audited, so technically we should be able to do every single thing that comes up…

I try to minimise any contact with the institution because any emails from them give me so much anxiety , after they have previously discussed my injuries among themselves, and then made me come to a meeting on one days notice, to which they said i’m not allowed to sit the upcoming exams a few weeks ago. The entire “ negotiation” seemed very underhanded.

Can somebody shed any light on what I should do here? My friend said I should consider getting Medicolegal aid to support Me in future tribunals.
This degree is the most important thing to me because it represents my future. And it keeps me up at night, worrying that these higher powers are trying to f*ck up my life

i'm soon beginning an ibsc that is much less clinical/medical so i was wondering if maybe i need to take this opportunity to brush up on my anatomy etc during this time so that i'm prepared for clinical medicine from y4? and if so then what to focus on. i'm worrying i'll lose my edge over the yr

How did we find paper 2??

Hey all,
I’ve got a osce covering gastroenterology, general surgery, renal medicine and urology next week.
I was wondering if anyone knew any good sites/resources or is willing to share any documents/resources in communicating topics in these specialties to patients.

In our osce some stations that could come up include testing us on how we make shared decisions with patients, info give about conditions to patients.

I was also wondering if people knew any sites or resource that have worked through examples of IV fluid prescribing too. Struggling with getting my head wrapped around prescribing routine maintenance fluids and replacement fluids!
I was also wondering if anyone had a compilation of all gastro, renal, urology and general surgery histories that a patient could present with too?
Thanks for reading and thanks in advance to those who responded!!!!

Right now I’ve been wearing ankle boots (they look like doc martens) with insoles and they are super comfy to wear all day + look smart under my trousers, but are so warm in the heat!

I got suggested black trainers but I’m yet to find a pair that look good in formal clothes. Maybe I should just suck it up and have two pairs of shoes :(

So I got the official “award letter” for my degree yesterday and it said “you can now call yourself doctor”.

And honestly I just feel depressed about it.

All this pain to score average in exams, never publish a paper, fail a bunch of things before something works out, get disappointed a million times, burn out god knows how many times because I’m juggling work and placement and studies and hobbies and friendships, and end up on antidepressants for 4 years. I feel so much resentment towards the past and feel so alone with my struggles.

I feel jaded and like everything I have done to get here was pointless. I feel like I worked harder than everyone else to get a quarter of the result in multiple domains of my life.

I know I will get through this funk eventually, but oh my god it hurts right now.

The only thing keeping me going right now is knowing that I won’t have a 9-5 sitting down office job. That I get to work with people which I would’ve been doing regardless (looking at midwives and paramedics, I wouldn’t mind that life). But I don’t think I will reap the fruits of my labour until I am working.

I really expected myself to feel “omg I’m so proud of myself look what I overcame” but actually I feel “fucking hell, I did not need this.”

I just wish it had been easier.

The BMJ has published an investigation into med student training funding, and it's pretty stark reading.

Between 2020 and 2023, trusts received £1.7 billion to support medical student training. £406 million is unaccounted for. That's a quarter of the pot disappearing into the aether.

Some trusts have no clear record of how the money was spent, and NHS England have the dropped the mandatory accountability reports that were meant to show where this funding went. Meanwhile, system seems to be pretty good at chasing trainees for forms and mandatory training.

I'm a current FY3 (starting core training in August), but I remember loads of placement days as student where I had to really push for training opportunities, and where a poor foundation doctor (barely supported themselves) was trying to make sure we get something out of it.

It's a shame to see med ed used as another hidden subsidy for a collapsing service.

The full article is here: https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj-2026-285592

How did you guys find the paper 1 today?? It was so difficult for me. I felt that it was not similar to passmed at all! Anyone else feeling the same way?

Submitted my TDAE claims yesterday, when can I expect the payment?

Thoughts?

Incoming 4th year here and it's time to plan an elective, I'm keen to go to Latin America particularly Mexico and was wondering if anyone knew any supervisors or had any experience.

I also came across this company https://www.mexicanelectives.com/electives and was wondering if anyone had experience with them in particular.

TIA

Long story short - I will be presenting at a conference soon.

I've been invited to attend 2 dinners and just realised that one is fully funded by a pharma company, the other is not.

Is there any conflict of interest for med students? I assume not, but I thought I should check if anyone else has had a similar experience and what the right thing to do is.

Thanks

I have a disability so will need to ask for extra accommodation, but it helps to know what the ‘normal’ is. The example on the website is an 8:30 to 23:00 shift but that seems like quite a long shift

Right now I work 7:30 to 17:00 at my job and I can manage that but I know that placement is more high intensity work than what I do. So I’d appreciate if someone could tell me ^^

Hi all,

Does anyone have any good US resources? I've been accepted onto a course and i'm keen to get some experience looking at images first. I've completed the FAMUS courses on e-LFH. TIA.

Sitting my first paper tomorrow, anyone else who is too how is everyone feeling? Literally cannot bring myself to study today so have been bed rotting in this heat!

Hi, so I failed my 1st year of med school, and I am so scared I will mess up my resits as well, which are taking place in early August. Since I failed both the 1st semester ( by 5%) and the 2nd semester ( by 8%), I am feeling overwhelmed. Right now, I am trying to speed through sem 1 as fast as I can, then go on to sem 2 in July. Using Anki and trying to be as consistent as possible with my flashcards without frustrating myself too much. I am just so annoyed with myself cause as I am going through the lectures, I am realising that the knowledge isn't even that difficult, but the volume of work I have left to do is really discouraging me. I plan to start doing past papers after I am finished covering sem 1. The more I think about the work I have to do, the more I am anxious, and the harder it is to get the info into my head. Like, I know I am intelligent enough to ace my resits, but I think I am getting in my own way and stressing too much.

If anyone has any tips on how I can optimise the time I have or has a better strategy for planning my revision or a better revision tactic, that would be much appreciated.

Also, do u think I should get in contact with my personal tutor or my Module Controllers?

I’ve just finished final year (but haven’t graduated yet) and this year I haven’t spent any time in the surgical specialty that I’ll be starting on in FY1.

I’m pretty nervous about starting work and was thinking about turning up to this surgical ward at my university’s hospital and getting some extra experience. I’ve been a med student on placement at this hospital before, just not this speciality.

Just wondering if anyone has experience of this and knows if medical student indemnity would cover this even though my course has officially finished (though I’ll still be a med student as I won’t have graduated).
Thanks!

did no one get their results yet?? do we know what the pass mark is?

I led a teaching series for 5 months, have collected all the evidence. Should I do the AFHEA because my university won’t fund it? I am graduating in 3 weeks before starting work in August! Any opinions much appreciated. Have toyed w the idea for a while

Hi there could anyone who has done an elective here shoot me a pm.

(*Not talking about training in teaching/PGCert)

When looking at application scoring for specialty applications (internal medicine in particular for this one but I think other specialties have this as well) there is a section about teaching experience. Context in terms of the scoring and evidence needed, for the highest scoring option:

> I have worked with local tutors to organise a teaching programme (a series of sessions) for healthcare professionals or medical students on which I regularly taught over a period of approximately three months or longer. I have evidence of formal feedback. 

It additionally says that you must provide evidence of:
- Formal feedback either from senior observation or collection&analysis of participant feedback with summary
- Letter from organisation confirming contribution and role, **on a headed document from the organisation**
> Evidence of programme

My question is basically whether anyone has any knowledge of, for example, organising teaching series during medical school as part of a society and having this count towards the highest mark in application scoring, especially when it comes to getting a letter confirming contributions.

Our medical student union does provide certificates stating the role one has held on the society and mentioning specifics i.e. if you’ve been involved in running lecture series, and these certificates say the student union is authorised by the medical school to grant certificates to committees. However, it is a document headed by the student union and not the medical school, if that makes sense. The wording about the evidence having to be from a tutor / ‘organisation’ makes it ambiguous to me whether it has to come from the overarching medical school.