!Once qualified there are many more competencies that have to be signed off as well as further exams. And every year you have to pass a panel to prove you are working to the required standard. Don't pass you are given time to improve but if can't then lose licence."
_Utter utter rubbish - where do you get your misinformation from. Yes exams, yes ARCPs - but you do not lose your licence if you fail.
Mum/ Purple - you both believe that selection to medical school at 17/18 should guarantee you employment FY1/2, CT1/2, ST3-8 provided you can tick the boxes - there are a number of actual medics on here who fundamentally disagree with this concept.
- Medicine is not a science it is an art and intelligent people learn how to play the system make the requirements to continue , scrape past the post. The pressure on trainers to pass people is not insignificant and the threats of HR investigations and discrimination whether true or not are common.
It is a brave trainer who stands up and says actually - stop, this is not for you, you are scraping by.
That does not make for brilliant doctors who have been challenged, faced adversity and go the extra mile for their patients, challenge theories and do research to push science further.
At 17 i wanted to be a pathologist, at the end of medschool I thought dermatology was my calling and now I am something completely different. Run through training that you ardently advocate for does not allow you to step off the treadmill, reassess, try something different and make adult decisions.
When we had run through training in the mid 2000s, there were many people saying I have run through but really want to do this. They knew if they gave up their run through the chances of getting to where they wanted to be were slim.
Those that did struggled for 2-3 yrs to get where they wanted on a different programme and many failed.
Some are now employed as consultants in the run through speciality they chose aged 23/24 and are disgruntled and not as effective as having the opportunity to try before they bought into a life time career.
I have never been against UKMGs but am able to see a bigger picture of training as a whole and one size does not fit all and run through training disadvantages many. Go to australia for a year you will be behind the FY2s for a job - is that fair. Do research for 2 years - you will be a lower priority than an FY2.
Sometime it would be nice on these threads if you actually took a stepabck and accepted that one size does not fit all, that all PAs and IMGs are bad and IMGS can also be British citizens and have as much right to a job and training in their own country than someone who just went to a British medical school.