by admin | 06/08/2025 | General, Reflections
There are moments in every career where you pause – not to count the number of cases, clinics, or call – but to breathe, reflect, and acknowledge the arc of the journey. Recently, I passed one such milestone in my surgical career. I won’t dwell on numbers,...
by admin | 13/05/2023 | Reflections
The thing about social media is that the frustrations that have always been bubbling under the surface for junior doctors are now spilling over into the public domain. It is evident that the current generation of fee-paying medical graduates have really suffered and...
by admin | 19/04/2023 | Reflections
Since medical school there has always been some issue related to training and junior doctors. At medical school the Moderning Medical Careers (MMC) changes led to a huge number of doctors career paths and progression. Then the coupling/uncoupling of runthrough...
by admin | 01/04/2023 | Reflections
Getting an Outcome 6 is the dream for every trainee. That final sign off that comes with a ‘congratulations’ is nice. The downsides to an outcome 6 include GMC fee to be out on the specialist register. Having to start job hunting for a consultant post. I was fortunate...
by admin | 25/03/2023 | Reflections
As trainees we had the joy of ARCP – the Annual Review of Competency Progression. A panel of people including our Training Programme Directors, Advisory Committee Liaison members, Consultants and others sit every year with additional members drawn from HEE, military,...
by admin | 20/02/2023 | Reflections
As a trainer one of the most important things I can do is reflect on my time as a trainee. Thinking about my experiences, both the good and the bad and working out how I want to be the best kind of trainer that I can be. One thing that always stuck with me was the...
