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Tolerable. Shift patterns Surgical Assessment Clinic (9-17:00) - you get one week of this. It's fine if the consultant actually turns up to senior review patients, otherwise it can be very difficult as you sit on a bunch of scan results waiting for the receiving consultant to actually do their job. There is a lunch cover person so you at least g ...More
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Horrible rota without effort to fill the gaps which makes for unsafe working conditions at times especially due to covid Teaching has been better however, the job is almost entirely service provision Nurses are typically so rude to junior doctors and senior doctors don’t support the juniors with this at all Nowhere to eat lunch or even hang your ...More
Terrible training at core surgical training level - I almost felt like I regressed backwards in my training. So many issues in this department. I've never worked in a unit before where almost all the registrars were looking to move to other departments in the training region or quit entirely as the standard of training and opportunities available t ...More
One of the best I've worked in as a Dr. There were issues recently with training of CSTs and the department has really made an effort to change this with some consultants putting a lot of effort into training Very friendly and supportive department. This starts with the CD and consultants and trickles down through the registrars. ANPs and PAs ar ...More
This is a notoriously bad department. The rota is quite onerous, e.g. 3x 12-hour extremely busy shifts in a row. When you are the team on take, sometimes you can get 70-80 patients on your list. Night shifts are frenetic and on particularly bad shifts you don't even have time to sit down for 10 minutes. Senior support and pastoral care are poor ...More