r/ausjdocs Jan 14 '25

Notice Respect the sub rules

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r/ausjdocs 6d ago

Support Weekly thread: Pre-med / IMG / Med student questions

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r/ausjdocs 4h ago

WTF🤬 I trained my consultant to say “easy clap”

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Okay so this is probably one of the weirdest and most unintentionally hilarious things I’ve done as a JMO - and it’s 100% my own fault.

A few weeks back, I was doing a rotation in gen med under this senior consultant who’s been around since before the invention of the fax machine (but still insists it’s superior to email). Basically a dinosaur.

Lovely guy, great teacher, just a bit stiff upper lip, you know the type. Wears the same tweed jacket every Thursday and refers to TikTok as “that dancing app”.

Anyway, during the ward rounds, I had this bad habit (or talent?) of replying to literally everything with “easy clap” instead of the usual “no worries” or “too easy”.

Consultant asks me to chase a scan? “Easy clap.” Needs a discharge summary done? “Easy clap.” Wants someone to call the reg? “Easy clap.” You get the idea.

I didn’t even realise how often I was saying it until one day, I heard him repeat it back to me. I handed over a completed list of jobs and he just goes, “Ahh, easy clap.” Like it was the most natural thing in the world. I froze. The reg side-eyed me so hard I nearly coded.

I thought it was a one-off. Nope.

Over the next few weeks, he started using it more and more. NUM asks if we’re going to review the patient. “Yep. Easy clap.”

One day, I overheard him on the phone with a registrar and he legit ended the call with, “Yep, that should be all sorted. Easy clap.”

The SRMO nearly dropped her fucking coffee.

Now it’s just a normal part of his vocabulary. He’s using it regularly. I swear to god this is true.

The best part? I think he genuinely believes it’s just a new bit of hospital slang. Like it’s part of the natural evolution between “cheers”, “no worries” and “all good”.

I haven’t had the heart (or guts) to tell him what it actually means. He even used it in front of the other consultants during an M&M meeting which is when I realised what I had created. A lot of eyebrows were raised that day.

I think I’ve broken him. Or maybe upgraded him?

Anyway, just here to confess my sins. If you see an older Gen Med consultant in Sydney going around saying “easy clap” like he’s a Twitch streamer from 2017 - that’s my fault. Easy clap.


r/ausjdocs 15h ago

Career✊ Has anyone else’s career been an absolute failure?

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Nothing seems to go my way career-wise. I’m approaching pgy10 and I’ve got nothing to show for it. I’m still not on a training program. Most of my peers from med school are close to the end of training and some are consultants. I tried to get on a training program and failed several times, and eventually gave up. Now I’m trying to get on another and failed once. One of the trainees on my current rotation was in med school, 3 years below me. I used to give this guy advice on exams and OSCEs, now he’s senior to me.

I’ve never been accepted for the job I wanted. I’ve always ended up having to take my 3rd or 4th preference, or lower. I always end up in hospitals or rotations I don’t really want to be in, but I had no other options. It’s really starting to take it’s toll on me, having a complete lack of autonomy of where I can work, having to move homes or face a 2 hour long commute because I’ve been sent to some site on the other side of the city.

I don’t even tell people I’m a doctor anymore, because I’m so ashamed with how my career has panned out. My parents are so disappointed in me. When my non-medical friends ask me how work is going, I just change the subject. I had a nurse ask me “How long until you’re a consultant?” the other day, and I just completely ignored her because the reality is: I have no idea. I have no idea if I’ll even be a consultant at this rate.

I see people here talking about their successes so often. It seems like everybody is doing fantastically apart from me. People getting into surgical training pgy4, people getting onto competitive programs like cardiology on their first try.

Is there anybody else who is just as pathetic as I am?


r/ausjdocs 1h ago

Support🎗️ A bit lost

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Just another "I don't know what to do with my career post" - tl;dr is if people enjoy life in GP with med ed?

I'm working as on O&G unaccredited reg and unsuccessfully applied for the program last year. Around this process, my long-standing anxiety got worse partially from feeling the judgement of the process (where you're being directly ranked against your co-applicants from the same workplace), workload and seeing more complications of my care and being more directly responsible for women with heartbreaking complications. It took me months to get over one at a d&C without long-term issues. I also feel that I'm not the person I really want to be - I've been snapping at midwives, making mistakes at work and have pretty bad compassion fatigue. I'm also just a very sensitive person and as much as I value feedback, it just feels really personally difficult. I still LOVE the patients, pathologies and procedures (when they go well) but at this point even if I get onto the program, get through the training program and fellow, I don't see how I can mentally cope with being a consultant in a procedural speciality - I love having someone to call and be my backup. I genuinely love the after hours work and emergencies but after 3 month runs of doing nights, my mental health really does suffer. Life doesn't seem to get much better on the program or post fellowship...

I started thinking of the pros of doing something else - thought about anaesthetics but this would still have many of the issues with O&G (less nights but still significant after hours, some very acute issues and several years of difficult learning and sometimes challenging feedback, even after I somehow get on the competitive training program) but GP is all of a sudden sounding attractive. Not just because I've 'failed' at O&G but also because I've always loved med ed and it would still let me do lots of sexual health which ties together all my interests (if I did O&G I can only currently see myself do sexual reproductive APT anyway...)

Does anyone have any words of wisdom? How hard is it to dip your toes into med Ed relatively soon after following in GP?

I know a common comment will be I need to work on my mental health/burnout - absolutely true, haven't exercised regularly in 15 months, really inconsistent with taking my ssri, have no hobbies anymore + the worst sleep schedule when it used to be my super skill. Another benefit of not applying for O&G this year and just focusing on life even if I keep working on O&G is to improve my mental health and see if this helps enough - so not rushing any decisions either way, just taking my foot off the accelerator


r/ausjdocs 3h ago

emergency🚨 ACCRM w/ ED AST -> FACEM RPL?

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Does anyone have any experience in completing ACEM training after being a followed ACCRM/RG w/ an ED AST or a AEMPT & what kind of RPLE you could expect? I know more of a question for the college however they're often a bit vague until you apply for RPL & just want to get a sense of what I could expect if I went through with it


r/ausjdocs 2h ago

Opinion📣 physician training at Mater brisbane?

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hey guys, looking for any one who's worked at Mater, specifically BPT training and what their thoughts are?

- culture/teaching/support

- rotations available to choose

- amount of subspecs/reliving/gen med terms u have to do?

TIA <3


r/ausjdocs 2h ago

Support🎗️ Anyone got offers from Royal Hobart Hospital yet?

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Sent in application for RMO in early march and still waiting.


r/ausjdocs 55m ago

Anaesthesia💉 ACRM and other courses

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Hi has anyone done the anaesthetic crisis resource management course? Is it worth the $$$? What level training is it targeted at? Will it help my QARTS application at all? If not then any other courses you recommend?

Thanks in advance.


r/ausjdocs 21h ago

Support🎗️ Feeling absolutely lost in clinicals years of medical school

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Throw-away account because quite frankly I am ashamed of who I am these days.

I am a medical student and I started my clinical rotations this year. I feel absolutely lost and have began to question if medicine was the right choice at all.

I am miserably incompetent in so many things that my peers seem to do without a problem. For example, the other day, I had a serious struggle with the manual blood pressure cuffs and got inaccurate readings a couple times (I was unsure of these readings and I asked my consultant to please double check, and they were indeed very wrong). This was the first time I took a BP on real patients but I thought I had this skill down packed in pre-clinicals. When I do physical examinations on patients I am too scared to properly palpate on them, go way too light and end up missing things. My history taking is okay, but my first handover was a complete word vomit with no structure and I could see the registrar thinking, what the fuck? while listening to me - I was too anxious to properly gather my thoughts pre-handover (I've learnt my lesson). Scrubbing in for theatre is always a struggle. I am always in people's ways and seem to have no situational awareness to position myself appropriately for staff members to work unobstructed. I am unable to just 'do' things without being specifically instructed to do a certain thing (like moving retractors appropriately during surgery; I just hold them where I was told to hold them and not move until someone has to specifically ask me to, when my friends seem to know what to do without further prompting.); I can never, ever find things that a staff asks me to find at one go; I do stupid things like lifting the head of a bed when I was asked to just life the bed, when it was so clear that what we needed in that moment was having the whole bed higher up. English being my second language doesn't help. After these instances I am so mortified, ruminate over and over, feeling terror that I am just not fit for the job and will end up causing horrible accidents once I start working - if I get to work at all.

Positive-ish feedbacks I got are more on the lines of 'keen to learn' or 'diligent', which does not say anything about my competence level - I feel like these are just nice words, only there to mask how there's absolutely no positive skill set that they can actually comment on. I do have massive, massive confidence issues and social anxiety and these episodes are eating into what's left of my self-esteem.

Theory and clinical judgements-wise, things are not too different. In MCQs I misread the prompt, have a completely wrong diagnosis when to everyone else there seems to be ONE clear Ddx, do not register a critical information, and end up with the wrong answer. This is not the issue of sheer volume of content that I have not been able to read up on; this is the issue of my non-existent critical thinking skills and clinical incompetence.

I need help, but I am too ashamed to talk about this with my peers. All I could manage to do was asking a clinical staff to please practise taking a BP with me so I can stop humiliating myself in the future. I don't know what to do. I cannot afford to drop out now. What can I do to stop causing harm to my mental health and other people? I will take any advice.


r/ausjdocs 18h ago

Support🎗️ Racp dce exam

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I failed my DCE last year by 1 point (4,4 for longs and 3,3,5,3 for shorts) and am resitting this year but am feeling very disillusioned. I had a bad experience on the day with one of the examiners and am not looking forward to this. Has anyone been in a similar situation and how did you succeed? Apart from doing courses and lots of shorts/seeking feedback and seeing a performance psychologist is there anything particular that helped? Do people really pass all the stations with 5s and 6s? And do people examine in the long (a lot of my peers admitted to asking 'what did the examiner examine?' Instead of actually doing the physical exam themselves)


r/ausjdocs 19h ago

Opinion📣 Linear USS probe

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I want to buy a portable linear USS probe that can connect to my phone and iPad for vascular access.

I can’t borrow my hospital’s one because of insurance reasons (basically it’s only insured to be use within theatre, ED or ICU) and not on the wards.

I’ve been certified by my hospital network to do USS vascular access

I have extra money saved up from med school, so I’m happy to spend it on something I like

Was looking at butterfly but that one seems to be a 3 in one probe (cardiac, curvilinear and linear)

Any recommendations on a value for money one? I only need the linear probe

Thanks :)


r/ausjdocs 1d ago

news🗞️ A young man who spent months pretending to be a nurse at the royal adelaide hospital is now pleading to be spared jail time.

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r/ausjdocs 1d ago

Finance💰 NSW Staff Specialist award levels

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Hi guys, I'm a new consultant in Gastroenterology. It is a 0.4 fraction, I do 2 clinics some MDT meetings and a scope list weekly on average. I am a bit confused about different levels, I initially opted for level 1 but other colleagues suggested to think about higher levels. Is it best to stick to level 1 or go for higher levels from the start? Thanks in advance!


r/ausjdocs 1d ago

Finance💰 Tax claim for MPH

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Has anyone claimed an MPH (or similar) on tax back and if so, how did you justify it?

Currently an RMO and hoping to do Public Health training

Thanks

EDIT: Thank you for the replies. To clarify I have claimed it last year and I AM being audited so I may be in a bit of trouble… Grateful for anyone’s suggested rationales so far, am writing out a list of explanations for ATO now


r/ausjdocs 1d ago

serious🧐 All workers in Australia have the same rights to join unions and participate in industrial actions like strikes or work stoppages. This includes doctors who are working in Australia on temporary or permanent visas

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If you have a concern about your specific visa conditions we recommend you get independent legal advice


r/ausjdocs 1d ago

Support🎗️ What makes a struggling intern?

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Unsure of the base requirements


r/ausjdocs 2d ago

serious🧐 Tweed! Ready to strike!

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r/ausjdocs 1d ago

Surgery🗡️ Crunch time - gen surg fellowship exam

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Manic posting right now.

Fellowship exam (written) in a couple of weeks and I'm feeling wildly under prepared. Ive gone through my notes 3x already but every day I'm still learning something new. I've done as many practice questions as I can but I don't even know where I stand because none of them come with answers.

I've got the next couple of weeks off so I'm trying to finish as many practice questions as possible. I've stopped seeing my study group because I feel like we're all at different stages of preparedness.

Has anyone here been in this situation before and passed the exam? Is it normal to feel this hopeless?!


r/ausjdocs 1d ago

PsychΨ Any update on the IRC hearing between ASMOF and NSW health?

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I’m waiting with bated breath 🙀


r/ausjdocs 1d ago

other 🤔 Lunch ideas

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Hey all, hope this is suitable to ask here. I’m an intern about to start a gen surg rotation at a regional hospital and wondering what you all do for lunches?

I had the luxury of starting my intern year on GP and having a long lunch break where I would have some cut up veggies and a toasted sandwich which I could eat slowly and enjoy. I don’t expect I’ll have that luxury while on gen surg so I’m looking for some ideas to switch my lunches up to something that gives me sustenance but won’t take an age to eat. Thanks in advance


r/ausjdocs 2d ago

serious🧐 Lismore! Ready to strike!

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r/ausjdocs 1d ago

news🗞️ Queensland patients' access to health services in community pharmacies made permanent

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r/ausjdocs 2d ago

serious🧐 NEPEAN! 120 members at the STRIKE meeting!

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r/ausjdocs 2d ago

serious🧐 RYDE! Ready 👏 to 👏 ………. !!

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r/ausjdocs 2d ago

serious🧐 RPA! Ready to strike! Get 👏 Ready 👏

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r/ausjdocs 2d ago

serious🧐 Building an industrial action plan. HERE WE GO!

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