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What's wrong?

I had to officially give up my job - bad times but not the end of the world theres always next year. Ive still got my Dr Title and degree and no one can take that away from me.

I need to go kick bum on the situational judgement test.

Now what job do I want for a year (48 weeks and one day exactly). Ive never had a back up choice, abroad maybe??

Hey, so you'll be a FP2013 applicant? Woo, another one! When are you taking your SJT?

I'm working on a paper and generally studying until the end of this year, then January to June will be working here in Portugal (oh the fun...). Then off to honeymoon and - hopefully - a Foundation placement...!

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So have you had to re-apply this year? I have not a clue whats going on. I saw your 2 weeks of im going to have a stroke mood. I have had 4+ months of that and I have a feeling its only just beginning. Ive got into this really bad habit where I think that if I dont check my e-mails three million times per day and/or venture outside im going to miss something big.
How do you book a SJT?

Nuts fact of the day: Clinical coders, far from being a typical admin job, requires three years training with exams. Three years!? To have a career of flicking through patient notes trying to decipher doctor's handwriting!?

Nuts fact of the day: Clinical coders, far from being a typical admin job, requires three years training with exams. Three years!? To have a career of flicking through patient notes trying to decipher doctor's handwriting!?

Seriously? I thought that loads of med students did this for GP surgeries as summer jobs a couple of years ago!

I thought that was summarising? That's what my friends did anyway!

It's different?

I kind of thought that coders were just another sort of medical secretary. Nobody ever told us anything different, despite the multiple lectures on just how important filling in your discharge summary nicely is so that the coders can code things and the hospital gets money.

What decent coding does
1) Allows improved staffing allocation
2) Allows funding to be directed where needed
3) Makes large scale research and audit possible
4) Allows disease incidence to be tracked better


An example

Jamie is working in a busy ED. He needs to make a new rota. But he doesn't know which staff skill mix he needs and when.
By looking at the quality coding information he can see that on sunday morning he has a huge increase in minor ailments which can bebest dealt with bya GP, a large increase on sunday pm of minor injuries for which an ENP will be more effective, and that on a monday afternoon large numbers of medical type admissions appear an extra F2 will help.
Jamie can ask the IT bods to pull up all patients presenting with codes of alcohol and head injury in the last 12 months to audit.
He can see what percentage of patients on each day are alcohol related. Or when there are spikes in diseases, time of day etc.
Prof M on a national scale can collate data from various regions and find a surge in cases of disease x - a non-HPA reportable illness.
And a hospital like Chase Farm can get extra funding to compensate for the fact its coding data shows it has far more dementia inpatients than neighbouring hospitals so needs extra HCAs and nursing.

I can see how the coders would be ****ed off that you would denigrate them so much.

And a hospital like Chase Farm can get extra funding to compensate for the fact its coding data shows it has far more dementia inpatients than neighbouring hospitals so needs extra HCAs and nursing.

I can see how the coders would be ****ked off that you would denigrate them so much.

Hate being at that place. Please God if I get NCT do not place me there.

Also a little bit of resentment from the whole discharge summary bullying thing.

*is glad Jamie isn't my boss*