Got mine finally, a month after getting my M4 iPad Pro 13. The case is sweeeeet! Price paid was not at all bothersome to me given the value of the iPad it is protecting.
Hi I’m fifth year medical student in Japan looking for clinical elective in London. Do you have any idea how competitive it is to be accepted in ICL as a visiting international medics or any advice on speciality which is relatively not competitive??
I’m just wondering if you’ve tested the case with Paperlike’s pencil grips? I’ve seen mixed reviews about whether the folio case actually works well with them. Thanks for the review!
Sorry here's the scrubs comparison video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-epCNs5wQzl4.html and you can find the custom codes under the second tab on www.doctordevify.com/
Just found your channel and im surprised you're so underrated! Been binge-ing on your videos for the last half an hour 😂 im hoping to become an FY1 soon enough, so def loving your informative videos :) Btw, i think the Scrbs fit you the best!
Haha thank you sm - glad you're finding them helpful! I think my go to pair is also the scrbs! Drop me a DM on Instagram if you have any q about starting F1
Fantastic video. Love the editing. It's crucial for doctors to start understanding their finances and taking charge of their future. Thanks for sharing
its not just the education fee tho, its taking tests, getting advisors to help and flights and living costs, I mean, everything totally foreign for international students who has no clue about the UK or US systems. that's why applying can be so scary
So, almost a year since you posted this and you were so keen on transparency, it would be really valuable and beneficial for you to show any doubters what you actually earned during the last tax year. I'm sure that there will be some overtime in there (something a majority of people in the private sector don't get). Additional pay for doing some of your standard hours at 'unsociable times' and other benefits. Also, it would be interesting to know how much your pension has 'built up' in such a short space of time. Then we can all see the real hourly rate you have been getting for tax year 23/24. Personally I am sure it will be much more than £14 per hour, all while you are still being trained on the job. No need to show any doubters your tax or NI deductions (we all have to pay these, some of us at 40%). Not interested in 'your' student loan repayments, you borrowed that for your benefit so I expect you to pay it back. So it's just a gross income + any other benefits that you may have like, canteen subsidies (basically any thing else you were paid), the amount of employer pension contributions paid and No of hours worked. We can divide one by the other and easily calculate what you actually get per hour.
Sure We've had a payrise since then to £15.50 an hour. As mentioned in this video, on my next jobs I will be getting more if I were to work weekends or nights. However, I do not get paid any extra for working overtime - just the usual base rate. 4 Months in Psychiatry -> 40 hour work week so I only got £15.50 an hour. Month's GROSS Pay £2800 4 Months in Gastroenterology -> 44 hour average weeks so £15.50 an hour. No extra enhancements for overtime. However, I worked 1 weekend a month which I got an extra £162 - so extra £6.25 for a weekend hour worked ie £22.75ish total an hour. Whenever I worked a night which was 4 a month on average - worked out to £21.2 an hour for those nights. Month's GROSS Pay £3200 4 months in Trauma & Orthopaedics -> 48 hour average weeks so again £15.5 an hour. I worked 1 in 3 weekends so I got an extra £269. Hourly rate for a weekend hour was approx £25 an hour. GROSS: £3250 Total Gross Yearly Pay approx £37,000 having worked on average 44 hour weeks across the year. It is not accurate to simply divide gross pay by my hours worked because it doesn't negate the fact that during the day I am earning £15 an hour. If I did a community/GP job that is all I would be getting. It is if I am contracted to work nights and weekends I get more just for those hours. The same way a warehouse worker would. We don't get any work benefits, we pay for parking at work, pay for a staff room, pay for indemnity, pay for gmc fees, pay for bma membership, pay for royal college membership, a few thousand for exams and courses, no canteen benefits etc etc My pension contributions across the year were around 9.8% and employer contribution was about 20% - this has gone up now I believe as you say to 23% but you can't really use these figures to calculate our hourly rate as its disingenuous and our pension is complex. It's a defined benefit scheme based on our base salary. It's complex to calculate. Me being trained on the job is broadly speaking inaccurate. As a newly qualified dr, on trauma and orthopedics we see our patients post op on our own, make our own management plans and carry out the jobs. If I finish my ward jobs earlier, then I can go to theatres to help out and it's then where i am learning on the job so to speak and getting "trained". A lot, if not most of NHS doctor work is pure service provision where you are not shadowing a senior and are left to do the job. If you need some help you can reach out to a senior for advice. Furthermore, on any out of hours shift, on T&O, I am the sole doctor looking after 2 wards of 50 patients. When I was on gastroenterology, I was the sole doctor looking after 270+ patients across 9 wards - half the hospital. So I would be the first person to be called in case of emergencies, access the patient and start life saving treatment if necessary, alone. Again, i reiterate, I did have one senior (who was still a junior doctor) who was managing all the wards who I could reach out for guidance and support if I felt necessary. This is what people refer to when they say we are supervised in what we do. We are absolutely not supervised. Help is there if I ask and deem it necessary. Moreover, why do you think it takes 5 years to become an orthopedic surgeon in the US but 10 years post med school in the UK, it's because most of the time we are not "training" or learning. We are carrying out NHS service provision.
Just to be clear, before I respond, this is not done out of hate for you or anyone in your profession. Junior Doctors, keep striking due to pay and I have taken an interest as a tax payer. This is my opinion. Although you mention the pension and, like any young person would probably like the cash now as all young people generally do, including myself when I was your age. You will be glad of it when you are 55 and after a successful career you will have plenty to retire on if you wish to do so at that age. This is part of your salary package and cannot be ignored just because you don’t get it yet. A professional in the private sector when looking for a job will look at the package, salary, days holiday, benefits etc and will decide on whether to take the job based on these things. I expect you knew the package prior to joining the profession. ‘Yes the starting salary isn’t great but the incremental pay is very good and the pension is phenomenal, also could be a pain but the potential to earn more than the ‘standard salary’ is there but will require some work during unsociable hours’ These terms and conditions could be considered bad, but in my experience, in most professional jobs your salary is your salary and rely once a year on a review to increase this amount with no flexibility. If the company you work for says they have had a bad year, that is it for the next 12 months. This can happen even if you do 10 hours unpaid overtime weekly to try and further your career. I say this because many companies do not pay overtime but expect you to get your work done regardless of the additional free hours you put in. You compared your additional pay to that of a warehouse worker, you have suggested before like for like comparisons. If you are a professional, computer scientist, actuary and you have just started out on your career and want to get on, the majority of these professionals start early, stay late for no overtime or additional pay. It is expected that these ‘high achievers’ do this to get on. Overtime really isn’t common place for these sort of people, and these sort of people don’t expect it. They believe their hard work, ‘free time’ given to the company will be rewarded with pay rises and promotions over time. You mentioned training, I realise that training isn’t full time but gaining knowledge through much more experienced people than yourself is, in my experience the best training you can get. Nobody with a degree/ masters or phd gets employed and are expected to know everything, they all get ‘on the job training’ but are expected to work alone a majority of the time. My point is you get trained as part of your package. In five years when you are far more knowledgeable than now, a lot of that knowledge will be down to the experienced colleagues who ‘trained’ you on the job. Therefore, in my opinion… An actual salary of £37,000 for 44 hours work. Additional £7,500 paid into your pension for the year. Option to increase your salary monthly if you do more unsociable hours. 27 days annual leave a year. Good yearly incremental pay and regular promotion guaranteed with hard work. On the job continual training. …Is a very good package. Increasing this by 30% increases the starting package to over £48,000 with a pension of over £11,000. Which I believe is too much. I think it is very disingenuous for ‘junior doctors’ to claim they are only on £14 an hour and strike based on this. Especially when only 11% of junior doctors are in their first year of work the other 89% are on more, and in many cases, a lot more than the above. In comparison (cannot be disputed as it is a close family member). 3 years Law degree Employed at a law firm (22k a year) while studying the LPC over 2 years at a personal cost of £13,000. Contracted to work minimum 40hr per week with a clause stating ‘you must do as many hours as necessary’. Lectures every weekend for 2 years, required work 22 hours per week on the 2 year course. That’s a minimum of 62 hours a week. Once all exams passed, a further 18 months on a training contract (if you are lucky/good enough to get one) on 26k a year. 22 days holiday a year. Company pension conts. 4% providing you pay 3%. Six and a half years, fully qualified, expect salary of 35k outside of London. Believe it or not qualified solicitors generally have to work long hours with no overtime, that’s what comparable professions do. Your friends, at your age, who are on double your salary, 74k are the exception not the rule. Also, just to answer another one of your points, and I can send you links if you like, from accounts of consultants from the 70s and 80s. Doctors regularly work 90 to 110 hrs per week and had to sleep on the job. Restorations is also not a thing, in my opinion, if most professionals who have worked for the last 15 years looked at their pay rises and compared these to inflation we would all be owed 30%. It’s not a race to the bottom, but it is pie in the sky to believe that everyone should get this which you obviously do as this is the argument you use when your profession is compared to something comparable. If you believe it is only you who should get it, then I disagree completely based on all the above.
@@mickkelly8153 The 30% figure is based on the outdated Retail Price Index measure of inflation which was ditched by the government circa 2011 for the purposes of calculating increases to the state pension, welfare benefits and presumably public sector pay. When the correct Consumer Prices Index is applied any “real terms pay cut” to doctors pay is significantly lower than the BMA claims.
My answers as a med/surg nurse for a couple of years. This was fun! 1. Heart attack? 🤪 2. COPD! 3. Something with the thyroid 4. Mono? Idk. 5. An aspiration risk (I know that's not a diagnosis but that's what first came to mind LOL) 6. Diabetes-related for sure This was fun! Thanks for sharing.
