What is happening to the graduate docs who don't get a job

**yazoo** · 23-02-2009, 11:00 PM

You will still moan. When you are asked to work an extra shift as the rota is short. Or when you are rota'd on to work Christmas and New Year. Or when some vile patient is verbally abusive continuously! Or when someone arrests when you're out for dinner with your family (edit: unless you do something miraculous, and then it's a good thing, but that doesn't happen often, even in hospital!)

Drs moan. I have yet to meet one who doesn't!

**TheManWhoKnowsItAll** · 11-03-2009, 05:35 PM

I just can see there being no space at all for us, but as with anything, if there is too many of us then who knows what money we will all get and where will have to go to get it!!!
And yes goind to say Devon for 20k a year is not rellay what i signed up for.
Someone has just offered me to do my traning in Germany. Apparently I can have almost any traning post I want because there
are not enough students to fill the posts. Been offerd 5 posts in neurosurgery and min wages would be about 45k! Just got to a 2 week German course but I was told GCSE German will be more then enough.
Anyone got any experiance in that department???

**andy2** · 13-03-2009, 06:01 PM

If your German is better than your English you should be fine ;-)

90% of applicants got a place in their first choice foundation school. There were not enough people to fill all the jobs this year, so talk of there being an over-supply of doctors are wide of the mark just now.

In theory a CCT is portable from any country in the EU, but if you intend to come back to Britain then doing all your training in Germany may make this a little more complex. Also whilst with work colleagues you will probably be able to get by with limited German, you may find many of the older patients have very limited English, socialising without being able to speak German will be difficult. I would also question why they are willing to pay quite so much -assuming you have little or no post-grad experience?

Go in with your eyes open, and remember if things seem too good to be true they often are.