Passmed and quesmed users on #medtwitter :

How do you read UPSI in an MCQ? 🙃

Officially PSA-positive 🥳!!

Some ideas:

1) Cut lectures in half, if not further
2) Implement constant competency assessment
3) Reduce our obsession with written exams
4) Promote originality & innovation in place of so many exams

#medtwitter

Horribly disappointed to find that I’ve received my last choice group. I’ve obviously got a poor ranking so it feels futile ranking these jobs? I’m constantly having to lower my expectations! And it’s so cruel we’re having to do all of this during our exams #UKFP #UKFP O

Does having a physician associate on your team impact on training opportunities for Doctor colleagues on your team?

58.24% across all grades state PAs limit (to some degree)

71.77% for registrars!
79.59% for IMTs!!

These sort of takes makes no sense

“There is no proof to suggest I play worse football than Messi. Therefore? We both are eligible for the Ballon D’Or”

If higher trained skilled people make mistakes?

You don’t bring lesser trained people to do their job

Hard Truths.

Here, there, everywhere 😊

Thank you BBC Health News & BBC Radio 4 Today for the opportunity to give my thoughts on use of CGM in those without #Diabetes

Evidence, lack of it & eating disorders

bbc.com/news/health-68…

So trusts that struggle less will get a bonus and those that struggle more may as well crumble...

Makes sense I guess 🤷‍♀️ Not like patient safety is at risk in these 'competitions'

Back in August I raised concerns with one of the directors at my trust that junior doctors’ ID badges were poorly worded - they all said “trainee” and none said “doctor”.

Recently received this email and I’m genuinely both shook & delighted that I managed to make change happen!

2024 dilemma:
Is this
Processed unprocessed food
Or
Unprocessed processed food?

For the record:

New PA salary: £43,574
Core hours: 37.5/week

Newly Qualified Doctor salary: £32,398
Core hours: 40/week

Disparity:

£11,176 (34.45%)
Plus 2.5 hours/week

Hourly rates
New PA: £22.35
Newly Qualified Doctor: £15.58

True Disparity (inc. core hour diff):
43.45%

Alicia Kearns MP It’s still a pay cut taking into consideration the 30% pay cut suffered over the last decade.
Of course 10% feels like a lot when you’re paid as much as you are, come and live in our shoes for at least one shift and then feel able to judge.

It is nearly 2024. Bullying still continues right under our noses.

In many other professions they would be fired immediately. Instead I have yet to see a senior disciplined or fired during my time in the NHS. The system is wrong!

Why are doctors in short supply? 🤔

Could it be a political choice? 🤔

'Pathway' innuendo without specifics is unhelpful. It picks out PA school as directly comparable to UG Medicine.

Adds to perception/confusion that PA school is 'medicine in 2 years' that minority of PAs have.

They have different outcomes & up to GMC to enforce these.

Sam Stevens Emma Dr Done I’m but a paediatrician but not sure my differential would have been vastly different.
He has CCF. A red / hot swollen leg. ? Infective. Considering potential of clot. What did she miss?