Annie

The whole system is completely unfit for purpose, and I am angrier than ever even though I personally am securely in a HST programme with CCT approaching in the next few years. 🟡From the catastrophe of rotational training and portfolio-tickbox-assessment as a core concept of 'training' itself... 🔴to the MSRA as a low-effort way of filtering out applications without reference to their aptitude for the specialty... 🔴to the nonsense points-based assessment of applications, scoring largely meaningless criteria such as QI, presentations, publication-mill dross papers that have no bearing on candidate suitability... 🔴to the deeply unserious super-short interviews where we pretend we can select the best candidates from very short and rigidly 'marked' scenarios with no scope to actually delve into the candidate... 🔴to the ludicrous worldwide-open recruitment for non-UKGs and unconstrained mass importation of doctors to cheapen the medical jobs market by over-supply and undermine the collective bargaining power of the medical profession... 🔴to the ridiculous numbers of doctors now being churned out by medical schools, packed into placements like sardines with noticeably reduced curricula and rigour of training & assessment... Now doing 5-year degrees in PassMed cramming... As usual we - by which I mean the Colleges and a whole generation of consultants - have not just accepted this quietly, but have actually facilitated and supported this catastrophe. And here we are, still arguing amongst ourselves still about whether our liberal ideology permits us to 'discriminate' against non-UKGs even as the situation is now literally an existential one of mass unemployment and career devastation for UK-trained medical doctors. Get a grip, medical 'leaders' and Royal Colleges. We - residents and medical students - cannot afford your luxury beliefs and complacency with this system (that has been broken all along) any longer; radical action is needed, not a little tweak in position. Show some leadership for once, because it's not your esteemed careers, livelihoods, and future on the line in your ivory towers. It's your members' and prospective members'. @RCPhysicians @rcpsych @RCSnews @RCSEd @RCoANews @RCPCHtweets @RCollEM @RCPEdin @rcpsglasgow @RCPath @RCRadiologists @RCObsGyn @DoctorsVoteUK @BMAResidents @BMAstudents