Enigmatic Variations N0 1643- Career
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Specialist Doctors
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Most doctors become GPs. At what point in their training or junior experience do specialists decide to specialise? Is it dependent on their record, or on going for some area in which they perceive a vacancy, or on simple personal preference, or some other factor or factors ?
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When you have qualified you have to do a years pre registration in a surgical specialty and then a medical one.......
19:12 Tue 04th Jun 2013
When you have qualified you have to do a years pre registration in a surgical specialty and then a medical one.......and after that....do you go into GP or do you specialise.....most doctors make up their mind at this point.
If they specialise they either pick their specialty on aptitude or obvious vacancies.
Once they make their decision to specialise then it means studying for a post graduate degree in surgery F.R.C.S or in a branch of medicine MRCP or perhaps midwifery and Gynaecology MRCOG.
After obtaining their post graduate degree, then at least 5 years of training befor e they are eligable to apply for Consultant posts...about 8 years after qualifying.
If they specialise they either pick their specialty on aptitude or obvious vacancies.
Once they make their decision to specialise then it means studying for a post graduate degree in surgery F.R.C.S or in a branch of medicine MRCP or perhaps midwifery and Gynaecology MRCOG.
After obtaining their post graduate degree, then at least 5 years of training befor e they are eligable to apply for Consultant posts...about 8 years after qualifying.
So the specialist that I saw regularly, who was a professor as well as having an impressive list of letters after his name, must have been about 50 before he got all that lot ! For all that, he was only famous to the world as being the man in charge of George Best's liver transplant; such is life, his contributions to medicine being important but ignored by, or unknown to, the rest of us. And some patients don't or can't help themselves; medicine has its limits :(
humber.....LOL
They were fabulous days....you worked 120 hours a week, plenty of operating, masses of experience......no MRI 's or ultrasounds, just you wityh your hands backing yourself against life threatening diseases.
Mess parties, plenty of sh@gging and eggs and two rashers of bacon in the wards at 2.am in the ward kitchen after operating.........
One didn't want this life to end......it was what you had worked all your student days for ...to be called ..Doctor.........best profession in the world.
They were fabulous days....you worked 120 hours a week, plenty of operating, masses of experience......no MRI 's or ultrasounds, just you wityh your hands backing yourself against life threatening diseases.
Mess parties, plenty of sh@gging and eggs and two rashers of bacon in the wards at 2.am in the ward kitchen after operating.........
One didn't want this life to end......it was what you had worked all your student days for ...to be called ..Doctor.........best profession in the world.
salla...LOL...you would have been a big hit ......
We had this female House Physician who we invited to a mess party .....but.....
Anyway, she said "Sqad i haven't been invited to any of the subsequent parties..why?"
I said look, we don't need much from you, but a little on "account2 would be nice,but you gave nothing.
"Sqad she said, would you take me to the next mess party?"
Now i was on a cert and to give that up for her.......... but i agreed as she "trusted me"..;-)
When she arrived, she looked sensational and as the boys pushed forward, i held them back saying "She is my date"
You salla would have played that part well.
We had this female House Physician who we invited to a mess party .....but.....
Anyway, she said "Sqad i haven't been invited to any of the subsequent parties..why?"
I said look, we don't need much from you, but a little on "account2 would be nice,but you gave nothing.
"Sqad she said, would you take me to the next mess party?"
Now i was on a cert and to give that up for her.......... but i agreed as she "trusted me"..;-)
When she arrived, she looked sensational and as the boys pushed forward, i held them back saying "She is my date"
You salla would have played that part well.
Bet you were thrown out for being sober,Sqad. In my student days, the only man in our crowd who was ever thrown out of a pub for being rowdy was a stone- cold sober, lifelong teetotaler. The rest of us heeded the landlord's warning; we wanted to keep on drinking; but he, of course, didn't notice how comparatively quiet we'd got, and continued. A lesson in life; never be sober in company!
