Rachel

@Anisocyte @timricketts_ @medicalmodelbri Very interesting, thank you for this! What are you basing this info on without looking at course specs?

@rmoyes_ @timricketts_ @medicalmodelbri Of course this is speculative without look at detailed course specs And after all of this, HEM and GEM graduate to F1 level. None of this “middle grade/SpR level” rubbish you see in PA courses. And interesting prev HCP years don’t allow you to skip doctor grades 4/

They seem to have made an easy way out for PAs . No need to work for A grades anymore . kcl.ac.uk/study/undergra…

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@medicalmodelbri How is this different from a normal 4 year GEM course?

With measles on the uptick despite the availability of a highly effective vaccine, it's worth reflecting on Roald Dahl's account of the final day of his 7-year-old daughter's life.

Being a doctor is weird as you are held to infinitely high standards by everyone but also expected to play down that your job is high responsibility & intellectually tiring at times & have to act like any old rando could do your easy job so people don't think you're "superior"

I'm a 4th gen doctor. This meant I went to good schools, socialised with other doctor's kids- many of whom also wanted to become doctors and shared tips and resources about medical school entry- and already knew many lecturers when I got in. It's *not* a level playing field. 1/2

@DuncanRit special immunology ones like MuSK apparently lol

@rmoyes_ Which tests can you not add on in the evening/overnight?!

wrote in a patient’s notes last night “day team to kindly add on these blood tests as lab closed for evening” forgetting that it’s me… i’m day team….

pray for me- starting a set of nights in 3 hours and i’ve been awake since 8am with no nap….

When radiology finally builds the courage to talk to clinicians about those orders

interventional cardiologists when you ring through a STEMI transfer

When someone asks you to read the ekg

I was so shit on the ward round this morning the consultant asked me if I’d had breakfast and if I wanted an early break hahah

Starting to realise that the workload juniors face would be halved if we had: a) enough computers/printers that actually work b) IT systems that don't take 10 mins to load up or crash/freeze randomly

There is a curious phenomenon that results from the relatively brief window of time a single human lifetime provides: we perceive the current state of the natural world as “normal”. This is known as the Shifting Baseline Syndrome. 🧵

cheeky wee needle stick injury seems like a good start to FY1 😅

being a doctor is v fun so far, wonder how long it’ll be till i’m disillusioned !!