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Oh...and I once got a *******ing and was marked absent becuase my signature was too messy! WTF!?! My signature is always fairly messy but sometimes I just scribble becuase I get fed up of signing register after register. I got pulled up becuase they'd compared the signatures and it was too 'scribble like'! I was not amused!!!!

For the following few weeks I put my name, address, telephone number and ID number in the signature box! *is *****

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randdom

20

Daveo

Oh...and I once got a *******ing and was marked absent becuase my signature was too messy! WTF!?! My signature is always fairly messy but sometimes I just scribble becuase I get fed up of signing register after register. I got pulled up becuase they'd compared the signatures and it was too 'scribble like'! I was not amused!!!!

For the following few weeks I put my name, address, telephone number and ID number in the signature box! *is *****

Thats ridiculous, my register signature can be so variable I am surprised I have never been called up on it.

Reply 2842

RetiredAccount89

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Revenged

I have a question about the MTAS form... We had a 10 mins talk from the clinical president about this form today... He was telling us that we should prepare for this form now (wtf?)... i have no idea what he was talking about... he told a story of a friend who spent every tuesday and friday during pre-clinical years seeing neuroscience operations and kept a portfolio of everything he had seen... and then suggested that this was the reason he got a surgical post...
...

Indeed, it was rubbish. There isn't anywhere really on the form to add this stuff, plus thew whole thing with the MTAS is that it removes anything like this.
He's just another surgical **** with his head up his arse.
Plus MMC/MTAS means you won't get a 'surgical post' for f1/f2. you HAVE to do a certain amount fo medicine and a certain amount fo surgery in those 2 years. and the majority is general. plus at f1 level the closest you will get to theatre is if you are 'lucky' enough to sticka needle into someones abcess.

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naturally, i didn't believe a single word of this nonsense and i'd rather die than be a surgeon... but when i was in dissection, i started talking to one of the demonstrators - i didn't actually learn anything but he did tell me a few interesting things... he was a retired surgeon and he told me that his son failed his surgeons exams and was left unemployable and so had to re-train himself as a GP... what was that about?
...

failed his MRCS - specialist exams done after 2/3 years of SHO in order to become a surgeon. He failed, obviously couldn't carry on in the career path he wanted, didn't want to stay an sho/staff grade, so opted to do specialist training as a GP. Remember, GP isn't a fall back position.

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so because these two things happened today... it got me thinking a bit about the future and stuff... i don't know anything about the form and i'm not going to do anything about it at this stage... but i was just wondering does it matter what BSc i've picked... and does it matter if you don't do lab work for your BSc dissertation... may be a stupid question but I don't want to do my BSc and then to think that I've made a mistake two years down the line... cheers...

if you do a lab based/research BSc you chances of a publicationa re much higher. theres still some kudos attached to this...

Reply 2843

Revenged

15

thanks for the info... i'm a bit naive when it comes to the future and stuff... genuinely have no idea about what i want to do as i've basically had next to no clinical experience yet and have no idea about how the process works... but maybe that's a good thing atm because i'm going to have to spend another few hundred years in clincs...

i don't know if it's just me... but i can't imagine spending another 4 years at uni and so the idea of having to train after this seems ridiculous to me... i mean, what other kind of job do you have to spend like 10 years training for... jesus, i can't believe i'm going to have at least 8 years of doing endless 'training' and exams and long days and stupid pointless 'personal development exercises'... meh... i wish doing medicine was a lot easier and more fun!

Reply 2844

Fluffy

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Whooo! Our results are up from our first clinical placements ("Intergrated Clinical Sciences 1 = 6 weeks medicine; 5 weeks sturgeon-ary").

I'm a very happy fluffs :biggrin:

Reply 2845

gyrase

3

You guys are ACTUALLY very sad and no nothing about the happenings going on in the real world. Medical fools.

Reply 2846

randdom

20

Decota

You guys are ACTUALLY very sad and no nothing about the happenings going on in the real world. Medical fools.

I know lots about what is going on in the real world what are you basing that on?

Reply 2847

Fluffy

15

randdom

I know lots about what is going on in the real world what are you basing that on?

Feedeth not the trolls, for they cometh back for moreth...

Reply 2848

gyrase

3

randdom

I know lots about what is going on in the real world what are you basing that on?

Excluding you :wink:

Everyone here is an ignorant medicine-obsessed moron.

Reply 2849

Sarky

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Decota

You guys are ACTUALLY very sad and no nothing about the happenings going on in the real world. Medical fools.

Totally wrong place to say that considering this is the thread for medical students/doctors.

Are you aiming this on the school leavers or actually at medical students?

Reply 2850

Philosoraptor

18

Did this guy get rejected from medical school or something?

Reply 2851

RetiredAccount89

18

look at his past posts. the guy has spent the last week going around the site being a universal tool.

Reply 2852

Philosoraptor

18

Ah, good point. :smile:

Although I think there were some actual serious posts in there too...

Reply 2853

Daveo

16

Jamie

look at his past posts. the guy has spent the last week going around the site being a universal tool.

I banned him anyways.

Reply 2854

Saffie

11

i dont think i want to be at med sch anymore.

this might just be because i havent had a decent night sleep for days (fire alarms) and i dont have tonnes of friends here, and a friend dying. but i'm not so sure.

Reply 2855

Revenged

15

don't worry about it saffie... tomorrow is a friday... and the day after the friday is the weekend... and the weekend is going to be brilliant... :-)

Reply 2856

Saffie

11

hmm.. sure... :frown:

Reply 2857

randdom

20

Saffie

i dont think i want to be at med sch anymore.

this might just be because i havent had a decent night sleep for days (fire alarms) and i dont have tonnes of friends here, and a friend dying. but i'm not so sure.

I don't know exactly how you feel but I think I might have some idea, there have been times when I have considered giving up when there have been problems with my friends. My mum has a terminal illness so I know how hard it must be to be loosing your friend and how much you probably want to spend as much time as you can with them. I know thats how I feel about my mum. However the feeling that I want to drop out of med school always passes eventually and things get better. Try to keep your head up and power on through, make sure that the medical school know about you friend so they can support you, bsms have been really great about offering councilling etc.

Hope things get better. :smile:

Reply 2858

Revenged

15

Saffie

hmm.. sure... :frown:

sorry that came out completely wrong saffie... i honestly didn't read your post properly :redface:

... i really didn't mean to sound like i heartless ****... i'm really sorry...

the best thing you can do is talk to someone at barts about it... we have walk in sessions were you can go and talk to someone about things - it's very informal and so it may be a good idea to go to something like that if you have something similar... i know it is hard to deal with things when you have real life problems when you are under pressure at uni...

Reply 2859

Sarky

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My friend died nearly a year ago. It was very sudden and i'd just come of hospital so it felt like a double whammy. I don't know exactly how you're feeling, but i know i considered suspending my course for a year to deal with how crap things were. In the end i didn't need to, but it took me a while to come to that decision. I'm not suggesting that you might! Just saying how i felt.

I miss my friend so much, and i find it hard sometimes. It must be very raw right now and med school doesn't stop when you're ill, so it doesn't help the pressure.

Just be kind to yourself and don't push yourself to hard. :smile:

I've been thinking about my friend a lot recently and its still very painful, but i try taking it a day at a time.

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