Ahmed

I have been working as a trainee registrar since August, 2019 in acute internal medicine. I have shared my experience of my first week here: https://omarsguidelines.blogspot.com/2019/08/my-first-week-as-medical-registrar-ward.html I am going to share my experience on a regular basis here. TEACHING: Registrars are expected to book their teaching sessions themselves. NO ONE will inform them. In core medical training, I used to get an email from the deanery administrator mentioning the mandatory deanery based teaching sessions with dates. Now, I have to do it. For York and Humber, there are 2 sets of sessions: AIM training days which are mentioned here: https://heeyh-deanery-live.azurewebsites.net/node/306 GIM mandatory training days here: https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/events/career-stage/spr/career-stage/specialty-trainee/region/yorkshire-0 GIM is general internal medicine. These training days are for the medical registrar on call I attended my first teaching session in Leeds. It was...

Everyone hates night shifts! I was terrified of them when I started because I had "heard" and "read" that doctors are not supported. With time and experience, I realized how much I learnt on nights and then started enjoying them. Now, I actually look forward to my nights. I am going to share some tips here which may help. MY ROUTINE BEFORE MY FIRST NIGHT SHIFT: Altering your natural sleep cycle is very difficult. I found these things which were helpful - I wake up at 0730 AM - 0800 AM on the day of my night shift. - I do not have coffee/tea. - I go out of the house and roam about , have lunch (non caffeinated drinks) - I come back at around 1 PM - I go to sleep at around 1400. I have thick curtains in my bedroom so the daylight does not bother me ( You can also consider black out curtains which are even better). - I wake up at 1800 - I have dinner and then coffee (I always have black coffee in the morning, which I skip on my nights and have after dinner). - I take...

I bought my third car in the UK on a PCP deal. A bit about PCP deals You can get any car ( new/approved used ) from a dealership You pay a deposit You pay a monthly amount At the end of the contract you can either keep the car after paying a balloon payment , give the car back and dont have to pay extra ( other than the extra miles you have done or any damage to the car) or upgrade when you have paid the amount you were contracted to pay. Background My first car in the UK was a 2001 Peugeot 206 ( which I bought on cash for 1,000 GBP). https://www.pakwheels.com/forums/t/my-first-car-in-uk-peugeot-206/257585  which I bought in October, 2015. I bought an Audi A3 ( 65 plate ) in January 2017. I paid around 4000 GBP deposit and was paying around 240 GBP a month for a 4 year contract with 5000 miles per annum. https://www.pakwheels.com/forums/t/my-second-car-in-uk-audi-a3-1-4l-tfsi-s-line/442847 I decided to change it when I was three and a half years into the contract. I still had to p...