I've reapplied for anaesthetics for the 3rd time but idk if I really even have the effort. Top 8% MSRA score last year and still no interview. 2 points off.

Wild that my nearest picket line is >180 miles away

The even better thing about this is they obviously covered my strike shifts, paying whatever strike rate they paid. And then on the 2 shifts I was working, there were no patients.. Good planning, and a great use of money and resources

Confirmed. You can only be a great doctor if you score in the top 5% of MSRA scores. Nothing else matters. David says so. Any great or perhaps not great doctors want to chime in?

I guess writing a PHD thesis proves you're capable of completing all the discharge summaries necessary to get through IMT

I got paid £14/hr to work Christmas day as a doctor in 2022

Yeah but medicine was wildly different back in 2013 when I started planning for a career in medicine

Non my boyfs mum sending me a link to an IMG who completed GP training in the UK then went to practice in Ontario (boyf is from Toronto and they're trying to understand the job issues right now) and I'm like.... that's exactly part of the specialty training problem in the UK

TLDR, if you think it's okay to train someone to work as a UK consultant who never has any intention of working as a UK consultant from day 1, in the current climate of specialty training bottlenecks, please move on and agree to disagree.

I applied to sit MRCP a month ago. Is it normal that it's still at the application received stage?

Let's give them the full data shall we Department of Health and Social Care and while we are here, let's talk about why I am striking. I started medical school in 2019. Prior to that I was an intensive care nurse. I left to (hopefully) become an anaesthetist. When I started medical school the