Ahmed

I am a ST3 trainee registrar in Acute Internal Medicine (AIM), Scarborough Hospital.  I am going to clear some misconceptions people have about working as a trainee medical registrar.  They never have time for their families because they are always on call!  Look at my rota here: https://omarsguidelines.blogspot.com/2019/07/my-st3-post-in-acute-medicine.html Let's look at November, for example: I was on annual leave from the 1st to 6th of November I have every weekend off. I have a total of 7 long shifts ( ie from 0900 to 2100) in November. Total number of days off: 16 Study days: 2 Regular days on the ward: 5 I come home at around 1730 ( I leave the hospital at 1700 almost everyday) and have a good 3 hours on working days. My weekends are mostly free and I spend that time with my family as well. I have driven 3000 miles in 2 months already! ( which shows how much time I have now). The pay is not enough!  The pay of a trainee registrar varies from 3300 to ...

I recently went on a three day trip to my home country, Pakistan from the UK to attend a wedding. I am going to share my experience and some tips in this blog. MY TIMINGS DEPARTURE 1. Slept at 2000 and woke up at 0400 on Thursday. 2. Left the house at 0600 3. Took the 0630 train to York - transferred to another train to get to Manchester airport at 1035. 4. Checked in at around 1100 5. The plane took off at 1400 6. Landed in Doha at 0010 7. Took the plane from Doha at 0205. 8. Reached Lahore at 0735 PK time 9. Got out of the airport at around 0900 PK time on Friday. ARRIVAL 1. Left for the airport from our house at 2300 on Sunday night 2. Arrived at the airport at around 0000 3. Checked in at 0030. 4. Our flight took off for Doha at 0410 5. Arrived at Doha 0615 6. Took off for Manchester at 0800. 7. Arrived in Manchester at 1225 PM on Monday. 8. Cleared immigration and got our luggage by 1330. 9. Took the 1445 train to York 10. Missed the 1647 train from York ...