Junior doctors lose court fight

[hash118118]

lol?

[Dick Cheney]

Well, it made a jaded cynic like me chuckle. Perhaps it would not be to the tastes of a messianic New Labour naif.

[blueberrypie]

Lol

[sweet25yo]

dont give up on medicine yet. If it is still as bad when you graduate then you have training to go anywhere in the world you want to and specialise there. AT least you can easily travel with your job.

[Whisper]

John Reid > Gordon Brown

very sad that he won't stand

[yeliab_cram]

In the words of one orthopaedic consultant who worked with john reid in a national orthoapedics steering committee - John Reid is a ****.

[Evolution]

maybe we should design our own program with everyone contributing ideas. Would you like to have more chance to experience more specialties? or do you want to become more specific quicker?

I'd probebly prefer a program that builds on the current MMC.

F1 Year - 6 blocks of training
F2 Year - 6 different blocks of training
F3 Year - 4 blocks of training (your favs)
You would then choose two specialites that would run parallel for 6 months preping you for all the training required in your speciality. You would then have to choose one and carry on with the prep for another 6 months. You wold then enter training such as Acute Diagonostic for 2 years then Emergency Medicine for 4 years.

I think we need more time to choose specialties and also need the flexibility to opt out if we have picked the wrong one. My method allows for students to experience up to 12 new specialites, the narrow it down to four and then into two and then to one. This also provides a grounding that allows you to become flexible within any part of a house for emergency situations. The main negative is the extended time required to complete this and so would add 2 more years to the current consultant time wait.



What program would you create if you run the MMC?

[hash118118]

I say bring back the old Calman system - it would definately give more time to choose specialties.

[yeliab_cram]

What you are basically suggesting Evolution, is the old system with extra shorter rotations. Personally i think the old system ie 6 months medicine and 6 months surgery as a PRHO then 3 years rotating round relevent/useful specialties as an SHO is much better than system under MMC.

If i know what i want to do, why do i have to spend 1/3 of my time doing things like psyc and GP which i know i will not enjoy or find useful.

[Evolution]

fair enough but some people do not have a clue what they want to specialize in. They think they love kids but 3 weeks in pediatrics and suddenly they hate it. Making two course be established, a fast track course for students who want to go straight into their specialty consisting of what you (yeliab_cram) wrote above and a second course that provides the opportunity to experience different specialties.