Medical societies would do well to remember that the trainees raising concerns about their training, left unheard, are their future full-paying members.

It's unwise to rely solely on the assumption that trainees will join for prestige, a belief many of my generation held during

Toxic workplace
Breakdown of team working
Erosion in pay
PA scope issue
Training issues
Common root cause?

Consultants not speaking out throwing juniors under bus & those of us who DO speak out: the 'troublecausers'
See it everywhere in NHS😡

MSC has published its findings on the 2023 clinical academic survey, revealing an ageing workforce and continuing gender and ethnic imbalances in clinical academia.

Press release: bit.ly/3vGqZJU
Interactive tool: bit.ly/3JsxwMM

<2% reporting likely to stay post training is a travesty

We're here because Rads in training haven't been listened to or prioritised enough.

The Royal College of Radiologists I heard there was a meeting today, hope this data & your trainee pledge was at the forefront of how we were represented.

Thank you to everybody who participated in the SRT UK Radiology Training survey!

Here are some highlights of the results, with a full report to follow soon.

#RadiologyTraining

If you ever want to understand about poor leadership & the juxtaposition with #WhitePrivilege & #ZeroConsequences ?

The last few weeks across national organisations - (organisations with centuries of reputation in 🇬🇧 health setting)- has been a text book example

Keep watching.

This is a concern I have with Trusts using NED roles to tick their Diversity Board box - instead of appointments directly to the Executive Boards which remain lacking

NEDs play a hugely important role but should NOT count towards an organisation Exec Board Diversity data IMHO

*NEW BLOG*

'The label of a troublemaker has inevitably arrived.
Yet? I would encourage more to make trouble. Good trouble'

Reflections of my 6-7 months as an Elected Royal College of Physicians Councillor -ahead of its 3rd EGM in a 505 year history
Cllr Dr David Nicholl

Link:
nhssugardoc.blogspot.com/2024/03/reflec…

Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should probably smile more.

When we recruit people who don’t look & sound like us from different backgrounds & experiences better decisions are made. When we know we need to change, let’s commission people with actual lived experience to lead the work. Same “safe”solutions = no change & dysfunction persists

Please do sign up. The study is light touch and mainly based on already clinically acquired data👍

15 UN Security Council members vote on #Ceasefire resolution for Gaza.

13 vote in favour.
UK abstains.
US vetoes (for the 3rd time).

So many innocent humans killed, displaced, hungry & terrified.

Shame on the enablers. How can they sleep at night? reuters.com/world/us-casts…

Reverse racism or discrimination against white people is a false equivalence. Racism is a social power construct created for the benefit of white people. Racism is the belief that one’s race is more superior than another race. Black people don’t have the *power* to enforce racism

Women remain underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

On Sunday's #WomenInScience Day, UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 is calling to foster a diverse and inclusive scientific community for innovation and progress.
unesco.org/en/days/women-…

With #BSGAR2024 upon us, tonight has been a great chance to catch up with friends old and new at the welcome reception

....the BSGAR committee even managed to squeeze in a late meal to refuel, and we are all ready and raring to go for the start of #BSGAR2024 tomorrow 🙌

Congratulations to the first of our seed grant winners 2023 Maira Hameed 🕊 🎉The well-deserved grant will support her two-year research project on diagnostic concordance of MR enterography in Crohn's disease DoM_UCL UCLH #esgarseedgrants

ESGAR DoM_UCL UCLH Thank you ESGAR for supporting the MANTRA study!

🎯It aims to compare the accuracy of MRE & ultrasound for treatment response classification in Crohn's disease (@ecco #ESGAR guideline response groups)
#IBD #Crohns #IUS InternationalBowelUS

So this is great.

Is it a doctor’s QI job though? No.

This is the sort of thing an NHS manager should be doing. Speak to clinical teams and ask what about the ergonomics (or lack thereof) is frustrating.

Then go back to the office, make it happen and measure the impact.