As final year med students preference jobs, a reminder that #Excel is a powerful tool that you can use to help automate the ranking process. Instead of doing all of the work, get Excel to do 90%, and you do the remaining 10%. Here I ranked my partner's jobs in under an hour🧵

#MedTwitter I am devastated to hear of yet another doctor, who’s life has ended prematurely to suicide. A total tragedy. Please know there is help out there.I’ve created this resource to support #doctorsmentalhealth. “Take care of those who take care of others.” Adam Kay

GP is the quickest route to CCT (and independence/individual expertise) - it's no surprising that anyone wanting to leave the UK or the NHS would look for the shortest pathway to completion of training before jumping away

To all those claiming we should be happy with our pay because we have 'bulletproof' job security with guaranteed pay progression. We have neither.... When applying to medicine 7 yrs ago, never did I imagine I could be competing for a doctor's job with non-doctors...

📢 New #ASiT Report on Physician Associate Impact on Surgical Training and Patient Care 🏥👩‍⚕️ 🔍 Largest ever ASiT survey: 1,978 doctors across all surgical specialties in the UK. 🤝 Focus: Physician Associates (PAs) impact on surgical training and patient care 📈 73.8% worked

Our next #DoctorsStrike action in England starts tomorrow at 7am. Junior doctors should not attend any shifts starting after 6.59am tomorrow up until shifts starting after 6.59am on Tuesday. Read the full guidance 👇 bma.org.uk/our-campaigns/…

Competition for both training posts and locally employed SHO posts seems to be rapidly climbing, and locum market is dead. Are we at the point where doctors might start becoming unemployed?

UKFPO seems to conduct unevidenced practices whilst ignoring consultations of relevant stakeholders starting with the story of the flawed SJT to removal of intercalation points to now the randomisation of entire foundation process including SFP. Randomisation offers nothing and

Disappointing… removing opportunities for clinicians to engage in research, medical education and leadership is not the way forward

Be kind to Medical Students Day UK FPO Allocations out today First year these have been RANDOMLY allocated A lot of young talent being sent places for their first job they’ve never been, worked or chosen This is terribly unfair #MedTwitter

To all consultants who have PAs/MAPs working in your dept If your PAs are doing the same work as your Foundation doctors, then 1 of the following must be true 1. Your PAs are working out of scope at the level of a doctor 2. You are not using your FYs appropriately

ASiT and the Surgical Specialty Training Organisations have released a joint statement in response to a recently published in The Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons England What should be the #priorities in delivering surgical care? Share with us your thoughts 🔗

Rouleaux Club, in collaboration with Vascular Society is delighted to announce the Averil Mansfield Award for Trainer of the Year. Nominations are now open, visit our website for more details or complete the form below. surveymonkey.com/r/LDLNNDJ

I am paid more as a student ambassador than I will be when I start working as an FY1 in August meaning I will be worse off when I graduate than I am now… #PayRestorationNow

Soon to be BMA_Resident Doctors 👏🙌💪 #RDC coming September 2024

Up to 82% of pregnant surgeons experience miscarriage, preterm delivery, and intrauterine growth restriction. Occupational hazards, including prolonged standing, physical exertion, overnight shifts, and teratogenic exposure, contribute to these risks. ja.ma/4eUXVQn

Forever a pleasure to go to these conferences, #VSASM2024 was great! A pleasure to present and meet up with Tricia, Penny (🦋DrPenwa.bsky.social) and Chandini Parsan Chand

GMC “…with more doctors than ever before choosing locally employed (LE) roles” When there are ~29k applicants for ~9k core training posts, doctors are not *choosing* LE roles They have no other option

I have joined a Facebook group called ‘Rate My Hospital Plate’. It is truly shocking what some hospitals in the NHS deem healthy nutritious food. Nutrition is such an important part of health and vital to ‘getting better’.. Jamie Oliver Wes Streeting

Doctors received offers for Radiology training posts at around 3-4pm. They were able to accept these offers on Oriel and received confirmation of acceptance. Offers then began to disappear on Oriel. At 6:30pm they received this email. Simply unacceptable.