Medicine and life, Life and medicine

I was lucky enough to be involved in the interviewing panel in my trust. It was such an interesting experience to see things done from the other side and on what basis selection or points are being awarded. I am mainly going to be talking about medicine but it might be applicable to other specialties, also I have to say this is for non-training jobs which generally are less competitive and more flexible. The tricky bit is to have your application shortlisted. There are obviously some requirements that are out of your hand as an applicant as having GMC registration, it is going to be more difficult in the meantime to get the job and the reason is understandable, the trusts want to appoint doctors for rota gaps and it doesn't make sense to take a gamble in the COVID time and then risk having issues later. A way around it is to email the HR person mentioned in the application and express your interest in the job and the city, be honest and tell them why your registration has not be...

I was trying to compile a list (and hopefully their meaning) of medical jargons that are used day to day in the NHS. Some of those words might not be really weird to people in the system but for me they were all new. TTO and Discharge summary TTO means To-Take-Out and it refers to medications that are dispensed from the hospital with the patient when s/he is discharged home. Obviously, this is accompanied by the discharge summary MFFD Medically fit for discharge. This means the patient doesn't require any acute medical input or don't need to stay as an inpatient from the medical point of view. That still doesn't mean the patient can go home, he/she might need physiotherapy or rehab or care to be put in place or restarted ...etc but no medical management OT/PT occupational therapy/physiotherapy. When that is requested for a patient, the OT/PT team, will come and assess the patient's needs and put that in place or at least start the process for that to be put ...