Tom Stocks 🦀 #JoinVoteWin Faculty of PAs @ RCP Ollie Burton Faculty of PAs @ RCP Enduring Damage Not Just To Royal College of Physicians

But Also To

GMC RCGP AoMRC

#Doctors Trust In Medical “Leaders”, Colleges & Their Future #Funding

Willingness to Prop Up an #NHS that So Undervalues Doctors

What A Legacy
Sarah Clarke Andrew Goddard Dame Jane Dacre

An example of how UK healthcare is viewed from abroad.

Our primary care system is seen as an example of how not to run a service.

A sad state of affairs.

smh.com.au/politics/feder…

I’m very humbled to have been appointed Chair of SCAI Now Diversity Equity and Inclusion committee. Following in the steps of Joaquin E. Cigarroa MD FACC MSCAI and Binita Shah will be no easy feat but they have laid the foundation for our success. Looking forward to working with the committee to…

Physician associates think new grad PA pay of £41-£45k = terrible.

FY1 doctor salary: £32,398 (pre strikes ~£28k)
FY2 doctor salary: £37,303 (pre strikes ~£32k)
GP reg salary years 1&2: £43, 923

Victoria Atkins why are you wasting money on PAs instead of paying doctors?

Congratulations to Dr Chittur Sivaram on getting honored by Association of American Cardiologists of Indian Origin #ACC24 !
Thank you for mentoring many locally, nationally and internationally!
Stavros Stavrakis Zain Ul Abideen Asad, MD, MS, FACC FAHA Mohamad Khattab

Noninferiority margins exceed superiority effect estimates for mortality in cardiovascular trials in high-impact journals pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37421996/ via Gordon H. Guyatt et al Mamas A. Mamas Benoy Shah MD Sanjay Kaul John Mandrola, MD SABOURETCardiologist

This is a really nice way of supporting junior faculty. Well done Chittur Sivaram

#OneTrickPony Mamas A. Mamas Dr. Martha Gulati ♥️🫀❤️‍🩹🇨🇦 David L. Fischman Ritu Thamman MD David J. Cohen, MD, MSc Poonam Velagapudi Dr. Purvi Parwani Sunil V. Rao John P Erwin III MD FACC Robert W. Yeh MD Dr Anastasia Mihailidou FAHA FCSANZ FESC Ayman Magd Rich_cathRT(CI)☢️ Hany Ragy Raj Janardhanan, MD, MRCP, FACC, FASE Alex Truesdell Jordan Safirstein MD Less-Is-More Cardiologist WWF #Heimlich #wrestling #CardioTwitter

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#CardioEd Nirat Beohar David J. Cohen, MD, MSc Darshan Doshi, MD, MS Sanjog Kalra Kate Kearney Binita Shah Sahil A. Parikh, MD Sunil V. Rao

To continue pretending that PAs are in any way, shape or form qualified to see patients of all ages with undifferentiated problems is at best a dangerous farce, at worst criminally negligent.

Kamila Hawthorne Royal College of Physicians Sarah Clarke Dr Navina Evans Professor Stephen Powis amanda doyle
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I’m not sure how much clearer I can be…

If I have a new symptom or problem I don’t want or expect to see a PA, who has done a 2yr course of which 1 MONTH is in general practice.

Or one that chooses which specialty to work in like picking a paint colour👇🏼.

RCGP Faculty of PAs @ RCP
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I didn't appreciate that the last supper was restored! The original is so much more vibrant

13% of doctors are ‘very likely’ to move abroad in the next year, and another 17% ‘fairly likely’ to do so.

The GMC’s survey findings should raise loud alarm bells for government.

Read our press release on the new figures. bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent…

Friday Musing

The greatest gift we can give our patients is our time, humanity, and thoroughness.

Are you a UK cardiology trainee? We want to hear your voice in the 2024 survey!

This year we have a special focus on academic training + the impact of PAs on training.

All responders will be entered in a draw for free ESC registration 🏆

Speak to your BJCA rep/DM for a link

Nurse - profession
Physiotherapist - profession
OT - profession
Radiographer - profession
SALT - profession
Cardiac Physiologist - profession
Doctor - profession

….all members of the MDT or MPT - multi-professional team

PA - not a profession. An occupation or job. Studying a…

A doctor couldn't turn up at work and cover for a nurse, dietician, SALT, paramedic etc. without any training. They are unique professions and degrees.

ANY doctor could cover for a PA without ANY training and ADD value. Yet doctors are actively prohibited from doing so.