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You can’t escape it. Social media has become part of everyday life. We engage with it daily. You probably haven’t let go of your phone for a while, have you? People consume a considerable amount of information from it. Whether it’s breaking world news, new songs or the latest cottage cheese recipe. We hear about these things from social media first. I wouldn’t be surprised if searching Instagram or Tik Tok is the equivalent of ‘googling’ it. If used well, social media is a

If there was a time to avoid eye contact this is one of them. You’ve had a busy day, a list of stuff to do awaits after work and something ‘interesting’ happens during the handover and the consultant thinks something is so interesting that YOU should plan a short teaching session for everyone’s benefit. Been there yet? The natural thing to do in a rush is to google the condition/guideline/clinical sign and ‘COPY & PASTE’ STOP! Please don’t do that. You won’t understan

Wherever you are in your training, you are going to hear about developing and demonstrating leadership. You can’t hide from it. It is in every form for every speciality and you are going to talk about it in some capacity in your interviews. You may be thinking you’re not interested in leadership roles or you have other interests you’d like to develop like teaching or research. Regardless of what your interests are, you will need to demonstrate leadership skills in some way.

Preparing for the postgraduate clinical exams can be stressful, costly and time consuming. So, I will bestow some advice to help you be economical with both your time and your finances. We all hate being watched whilst we talk or examine patients. Brings you back to those horrid medical school OSCE’s. I don’t know about you but I hated them and I always felt they never really demonstrated how good I was. Unfortunately, love or hate them there is no escape. So let’s make i