Im a trainee surgeon. Ask me anything!

Have you forgotten how to read an ECG yet?

Approximately how much rotational force must be applied in order to hyperextend the cervical spine to ensure a clean despatch?

No idea

A rather gruesome one I suppose, which doesn't actually have an answer so that was a bit mean :P

So what's your end goal for your career?

What were your A level Grades like? Did you do any work experience to get into Oxford?

Will you specialise in adult or child surgery when you have finished training?


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Ever get worried when going into theatre to do an operation?


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Is this you?

what gcse grades did you get

Best

1. The feeling you get when you do a dynamic hip screw operation (newbie operation) and in the trauma meeting the next day, the bosses are like 'good work, you're making our senior trainees look bad'.

2. When you, and I mean exclusively you, do something that actually results in a patient's life being made better or even saved. Very rare for this to actually happen. But for example when you realise that a patient has a certain infection and you pro-actively start Antibiotics and they make it off the ward alive whereas if you hadn't and some dodgy locum doctor had found them two days later, they would have died.

3. There's this girl...sort of in love with her.


Worst

1. Pay :P
2. Night working
3. Managers

Well I had all these dreams when I was younger of starting my own hospital and having a staff of 30 surgeons working for me and discovering something so tremendous that I would pitch up to a conference and people would be like 'wow, its him'.

Then I was introduced to e-portfolio, ST3 job applications and, I guess, the real world!

My current goal is to secure ST3 training in trauma and orthopaedics and make it to consultant level.

Then ill go from there I suppose.

What sort of things are you doing to try to "stand out" at the ST3 selection?

First and foremost, trying to fill up my logbook with as many operations as possible.

Im preparing a poster with another trainee to present at a national conference.

Ive done two audits in three years and I'm currently working on one.

I teach medical students and have been involved in a regional teaching program.

Ive got two publications so far; I doubt ill get another one before I apply though.

Then just interview practice.