50% of trainees would work here again
Share your experience and help out other trainees: join 1500+ other doctors in leaving a review now!
Friendly and supportive consultant body and nursing staff, however department lacks motivation/interest in training juniors. Job is very service provision heavy with limited opportunities for developing your own interests. Rota is constantly short staffed and there is a reluctance to escalate rates for locum shifts (although I have heard this is an ...More
I would like to have known that a significant proportion of the job include covering paeds Gastro and surgery. The trainees and GPs are prioritised for shifts in general paediatrics so you get a lot less of this. The rota is badly managed and it is very difficult to arrange annual leave without significant swaps being taken. The Paeds wards are ver ...More