Thoughts & Plans
Feb. 28th, 2007 09:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hobbitommWell, this is the public version, now I'm actually in the right sort of frame of mind to make comments outside my flist.
I still feel let down/betrayed by the NHS, which sadly, I remain committed to. I blame my parents entirely for giving me a sense of duty, and so on. Anyway, in summary, for those new to the situation, I've not gotten a promotion in Plastics, and secondary to the new 'up or out' scheme (MMC) for medical training selection, I am consequently out of Plastics. 2nd round of selection kicks off in April, and we shall have to see what posts are available to apply for. I'm thinking, now, essentially in terms of lifestyle choices, because it's very unlikely I shall be able to get any job in any form of surgery, since they'll all have been filled from the first round of applications. So, the trick now will be to get something that makes for a nice life, where I've got a good work/life balance (something surgery in this country could never be accused of! But I'd be prepared to do it for a specialty I love. For another? Erm, no!)
The prime contenders right now are radiology (mmmm, fun interventional stuff like angioplasty, coiling of brain aneurysms, and repair of aortic aneurysms without surgery!), and General Practice (pro:3.5 working days a week, no on-calls, and scads of cash, plus the capacity to do some minor surgery in the community, cons: 90% of workloads people coming to whinge.)
But it's all up in the air- we won't know until the first round is completed what the options will be, since it'll depend entirely what is sufficiently unpopular that not enough people want to do it.
Ho hum.
(For those of you interested in the background to all of this, Channel 4 News did a little piece on this- available on their website)
I still feel let down/betrayed by the NHS, which sadly, I remain committed to. I blame my parents entirely for giving me a sense of duty, and so on. Anyway, in summary, for those new to the situation, I've not gotten a promotion in Plastics, and secondary to the new 'up or out' scheme (MMC) for medical training selection, I am consequently out of Plastics. 2nd round of selection kicks off in April, and we shall have to see what posts are available to apply for. I'm thinking, now, essentially in terms of lifestyle choices, because it's very unlikely I shall be able to get any job in any form of surgery, since they'll all have been filled from the first round of applications. So, the trick now will be to get something that makes for a nice life, where I've got a good work/life balance (something surgery in this country could never be accused of! But I'd be prepared to do it for a specialty I love. For another? Erm, no!)
The prime contenders right now are radiology (mmmm, fun interventional stuff like angioplasty, coiling of brain aneurysms, and repair of aortic aneurysms without surgery!), and General Practice (pro:3.5 working days a week, no on-calls, and scads of cash, plus the capacity to do some minor surgery in the community, cons: 90% of workloads people coming to whinge.)
But it's all up in the air- we won't know until the first round is completed what the options will be, since it'll depend entirely what is sufficiently unpopular that not enough people want to do it.
Ho hum.
(For those of you interested in the background to all of this, Channel 4 News did a little piece on this- available on their website)
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Date: 2007-02-28 06:27 pm (UTC)Your post reminds me, I did my weeks work experience in a radiology department and got to see all sorts of interesting things including an angiogram and an angioplasty, CT, MRI, Nuclear medicine and dopler imaging.... When the big wigs realised that a 16 year old work experience girl had seen an angioplasty they got all upset and said that no one under 18 was allowed in future so I didn't get to seeing a "propper" operation though:( I can't remember what sort it was going to be now but it was a pity.