Things I Wish I Knew Before Becoming A Junior Doctor 

It’s worth it in the end tho

Its the best job in the world! FAITH in UK 🇬🇧

@Harry Smith Doctors who do it in the UK rarely do it for money

Harry Smith Doctors in the UK are in it for the patient care and passion for the job unlike the USA where they pretty much only do it for the money!

Harry Smith Completely agree. As an aspiring medic myself in the UK, during my work experience it was obvious they need to be paid more (during lunch breaks a lot of the time was spent complaining about wages 😂), although you can lead a comfortable life with the salary as a consultant. After a minimum of 14 years after med school a wage of 80k a year with it gradually increasing until its capped at 105k isn’t bad. Also you can get extra money applying to award programmes where you are banded and can make extra money (the best get a further 70k added). So the money isn’t too bad in the UK though it’s still no where near that of the USA!

Pal I'M SO GLAD SOMEONE ELSE THOUGHT SO TOO like ew pls no

@@hairspray242 i wasnt prepared and now i cant sleep

help

Me too I’ve had to stop eating and I’m just feeling weird now that was horribly disgusting

Where

So true.

Good sis. Where have you been on these RU-vid streets? Hope all is well

Prestige....

Hello

Badria lol are you willing to pay more taxes then

No that’s a load of rubbish... 1) most football players don’t get those wages, on the best in the top leagues. Looking into the unknown leagues and the lower leagues and there on average wages. 2) following on from that point, it’s like anything in life, you become the best at a certain job and you will get paid handsomely... the best doctors in the world are billionaires! Football players that are on 10K a week it’s because they really good as being a footballer... in fact the best doctors earn wayyy more than the best footballers player by miles. It’s called life. If a doctor wants to earn similar to a football player... become one of the best doctors like how the football players your comparing them to are one of the best. 3) plus for a lot of football fans who have no family, they gain one from football believe it or not... it’s its own community which lots of people really do benefit off.

A. Latiwala In what sense is it personal, the wages some doctors are on are facts and some football players dont earn a lot?

Badria obviously you don’t know how many stupid doctors are out their ruining patient’s lives due to their ignorance. Football players are entertainers who put their health on the line on a daily basis

U are so dumb.

I am too. Except dentists, who in my experience are nothing more than a bunch of robbing 'shisters'!

Full of 💩 apparently 😂

The good news is that you do also get great job satisfaction eventually, and things do get better after the first couple of years. You made the right choice, just embrace the whole thing.

but what did you expect. that s the meaning of being a doctor

Ikr right

Sweeperboy doctors have some of the highest suicide rates...

In which stage are you now?

Not worth it, not with this pay at least. Be realistic

my man has been down bad since 2018

And he was handsomely compensated for that residential on call commitment. The junior doctor who assessed your dad, ran the investigations, called the consultant, and then did the follow up medical management was paid £14 an hour pre tax.

Savannah Nortangle good luck ☺️ you will manage. I believe in you.

Ana Katusic oh my god thank you so much! You dont know how much I need this ☺️☺️☺️☺️

Good luck! It’ll be tough, but you can do it! 💕

Same here lol

how's it going?

Nah. He Chinese.

@@w.k.7277 just leave. He’s cute okay

@@w.k.7277 Disgusting racist

@@jenniferyhu7553 and proud! ❤️

@@w.k.7277 what are you proud of🤔

Haha, yes that was unfortunate terminology. I think what she meant was "educated guesswork" rather than completely random treatment. Young doctors are often thrown into difficult situations they've not met before, and have to rely on theoretical teaching they had perhaps years ago to know what to do. Until they gain the experience in due course, for which there is no substitute. But everyone has to start somewhere.

Thats the life of a junior doctor. You don't regain that luxury until you're a senior really.

@@WahabGoldsmith Very problematic considering when we get less than 6 hours sleep a night we begin to decline in so many ways.

Erection...it's even more awkward when it's a young female doctor trying to catheterise a male patient...often a much older one.

" enjoyed a lot more than I DID"

me too :(

Respiratory and not cardiac though

Mahmood Elnaiem respiratory arrest and cardiac arrest normally happen at the same time. If not, respiratory arrest (similar to Peri arrest in children) will lead to arrhythmia, fibrillation and then cardiac arrest very very quickly.

hahahah

Maybe she 'corrected' her accent so she could be more understood

Congratulationssss. I'm sure it's so rewarding in the end

@@Qurann21 not sure about that, but you will get used to it like how we all do in the end.

I agree, that would be good.

A Nurse once said, "Plenty of water, plenty of roughage....there should be no problems with constipation." 🤗🤗

That's what capitalism gets you

Dont forget ticktokers

unlike tiktokers footballers actually have talent and work really hard for what they do.

Doctors are raking in money in the USA!

@@melbahrami3389 bruh they literally start getting good salary after 10 years so shut up

@@yeontanssmum9321 Anything you say!

That procedure is called Manual Evacuation

Tiffany Rose life as a dentist is tough as well

@QE ornotQE What makes dentistry better?

They are really not paid well espically vets. Average income before taxs 80k U.S. dollars.

Junior Doctors in uk are getting 30k before tax lol. Pulling 72 hour weeks, four 12 hour night shifts in a row, working Christmas and new year, telling people they’re dying etc etc. A lot of them don’t realise until they’re there just how shit it is and then don’t want to have wasted all the years of training.

Underfloor Insulation Glasgow if u don't wanna do this then go out people are competing

@@tsubasa123ist Every competitor will feel exactly the same one day or the other. Don't judge if you have not been there

if this doesn bother you at all and you can deal with it and still feel good become a doctor, but if this yikes you out please look for another profession

susuilu I mean, being a doctor is quite a vague thing to say, because there so many things you could do within medicine.. you could specialise in stuff too. The video isn’t common occurrences for all doctors

@@nothingreal7137 ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH YOU. but if you work as a surgeon , you shouldnt be yikes out when seeing blood etc

as doctors?

@@fatimab6064 Yeah. I'm an acute med registrar and she's a gen surg registrar.

@@weipu93 Good luck to you. Im from Pakistan and lots of people here aspire to pass plab so they can work in the uk due to lack of infrastructure in our country. One man's meat is another man's poison I guess. Are you guys going to be doctors in canada or taking up some other job?

I think an intern is not certified yet, but junior doctors are in the UK. So in terms of US vs UK terminology a junior doctor is probably closer to a resident, as they are fully qualified and registered, but still report to a more senior doctor. Then again, a first year junior doctor may be more equivalent to an intern competency wise?

+koisty01 thanx for helping me understand...this CANADIAN appreciates it very much...cheers!

+G thank you for helping me understand this better...much thanks...cheers!

"Junior doctor" in the UK can be a bit of a tricky term to understand. In a way, any training grade hospital doctor who isn't a Consultant (similar to an Attending) is classified as "junior", but that can include fairly experienced doctors who are some ten years post-qualification. Having said this, these guys in this video are quite junior, probably pre-registration house officers (or the new term, Foundation Year 1 doctors). They are qualified doctors but not fully certified by the General Medical Council, and are in their first year of working in the profession. They are, essentially, the "green P" plate drivers of medicine (people in the UK will understand the difference between a red L sign denoting a learner driver who hasn't passed their driving test yet and a green P denoting someone who has just passed but not yet experienced). So actually, Foundation Year 1 doctors are roughly similar to Interns, yes.

Nope that’s a foundation doctor, a junior doctor is a resident.

Oh boo hoo hoo. What were you expecting in a piece about the lives/work of junior doctors? Sunshine and rainbows?

I see I triggered you a lil, I'll mark that in my "things to not give a fuck about" list.

You cared enough to make your cry-baby post. Nice use of internet buzz-words by the way.

Nah, I just get enjoyment in how mad you're getting over an online comment. Cheers.

Changedma Name yeah, as long as no specifics are given

Yes, they can as long as no patient can be identified by the description.

You can't become a jr doctor without a degree in medicine, which you are not qualified to apply for without sufficient A level grades and a decent UKCAT score

Hey, you can either take your A-levels and apply for medicine (undergraduate entry) or medicine with a foundation year. Or, you can otherwise do an undergraduate degree, doesn’t have to be limited to science but of course would be helpful if it was in the scientific field, and then apply for graduate entry medicine. The journey is long and tough, but if medicine is truly what you want, never give up! (I’m currently a medical student)

Xaverius 1 well wanting to do it for money is kinda dumb, considering in the UK doctors barely classify in the "average" salary till they're about 38.

We don't get paid as much as you think.

ask an ethnic parent and you'll get a lecture 🤣

John Doe Nurses are absolutely vital and amazing, but no, their roles are completely different, even on a junior level

They are interns

Nurses and Doctors have completely different scopes of practices. Nurses preform more holistic/ practical care whilst a doctors scope is more scientific based. Although Doctors and nurses do have some shared responsibilities. I'm a nursing student lol

They are far from nurses 😂

valiant Othello i know what a doctor and a nurse are. The issue i'm having is yall cal them junior doctors and they show them doing the same exact practices as nurses here and nurse practitioners. The title makes zero sense if they are actual doctors and a low level of experience gaining their knowledge through their entry level it is called a residency in the states. They are doctors like anyone else with the degree but are simply graduates going through their residency program. Literally everything they have shown is what nurses would typically do in a day working in the ER or trauma unit in the states.

e.p the beginning Of COURSE nurses are involved in cardiac arrests. Every single one I've ever seen. What do you even think a cardiac arrest is? Do you think we just stand there watching our patients die while we wait for a doctors to come from another place on site to do it for us? No babe. Nurses are 9/10 the first people doing compressions (and continue to do so throughout the whole arrest as well, we don't hurry right off once the doc shows up). And yes nurses do surgery too, including on feet I'm sure. You will be hard pressed to find a single surgery where a nurse is not required and there a plenty of nurse practitioners that perform surgical procedures independently. I am not taking away from the exceptional hard work that medical staff put in nor the great challenges that junior doctors face in their first few years. My point was merely that nurses have to make extremely similar sacrifices regarding sleep and their social lives for less play and less respect. Do doctors have greater anatomical knowledge? Absolutely, but there are by no means more skilled (it is embarrassing how poor some of their practical skills are given the great emphasis placed on their theoretical knowledge during their training). Talking about how dirty their job is? "feces, urine, blood, sputum, snot on a daily basis"... I have never met a doctor that took a sputum sample, a stool sample, a urine sample, etc themselves. Nurses catheterise patients more often than not. Nurses do wound care. Do they avoid getting their hands dirty completely? No, but I'd hazard a guess that except for surgical/emergency doctors they manage to avoid about 80% in not more comparative to nursing staff (and even if they come into contact with it, it's not like they have to stick around to clean it up).

Of course nurses do a lot of that too. But it's not a competition between nurses and doctors, is it?

Madi NP ....this is a programme just for foundation doctors and it wasn't aimed to compare nurses and doctors.

ok, but this is a video about junior doctors tho lol. not saying nurses dont work hard too, but the comment sounds extremely bitter....like its not a competition

This video is in no way putting down nurses, it's just that these people are in a series about junior doctors so that's what they are haha.