Ahmed

This is my experience of working as a ST4 trainee registrar in acute internal medicine at Hull Royal Infirmary. MY TIMELINE  1. I received my rota on the 17th of July 2. Most of my correspondence with HR was done via email and I had to go for a face to face ID check on the 4th of August which lasted 5 minutes 3. I started in AMU on the 5th of August. I was added to the AMU WhatsApp group by a group of helpful trainees a few days prior to starting and they showed me the rota, gave me a briefing of how things worked here and this was incredible helpful. MY DUTIES  As an acute medical registrar rotating in AMU, these will be my duties: 1. Run ambulatory care from 0900 to 1700 with a consultant ( who is present there from 0900 till 1700, has no other clinical duties and another consultant takes over from 1700 to run it till 2200) 2. Cover a zone of AMU from 0800 to 1600. The AMU here is huge and it is impossible for a registrar to cover the whole unit. So they have dedicated one z...

I was a core medical trainee from 2017 to 2019 and now I am a speciality trainee registrar in acute internal medicine. I have worked in 4 trusts ( the first one as a non trainee SHO for 18 months) and have learnt a lot. Here are some points which will help you achieve the most from your training post: NO ONE WILL SPOON FEED YOU  Your training is in your capable hands. The curriculum of your portfolio is self explanatory and that is the minimum requirement from you. No one will tell you what to do. Everything is available online. This is the gold guide for medicine: https://www.jrcptb.org.uk/training-certification/arcp-decision-aids YOUR SUPERVISORS  They are there to help wherever possible but as mentioned above, they will not tell you what to do. Instead, you will go to them and let them know that this is what you want to achieve and they will give advice and support wherever necessary. Here is an example: You want to do a QIP You will have to think of a topic, make a pr...