I'm an FY1. Not a secretary.
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I'm an FY1. Not a secretary.
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After 5-6 years of rigorous academic and clinical training, scores of fresh-faced Doctors enter their FY1 ready to apply the so many hours of blood, sweat and tears they have shed through medical scho
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Re: I'm an FY1. Not a secretary.
posted at 22/5/2012 8:59 PM BST
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First: 27/3/2012 Last: 5/6/2012 |
I am definitely an admin monkey. I do find it frustrating sometimes, especially when someone says "can you just....." which leads to 3 hours of desperating ringing a teriatry centre in London trying to get them to accept a patient. But then I see it as just one of those things I have to go through. One day it will be someone elses role! |
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Re: I'm an FY1. Not a secretary.
posted at 22/5/2012 10:55 PM BST
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First: 3/4/2012 Last: 31/5/2012 |
i personally cannot wait to get out of med school and actually do something that involves patient care! I agree with all the points made, positive and negative. i know i will find all the paper work frustrating, but i completely agree with the post about how important discharge summaries are and knowing what information a GP needs to know to keep the patient safe. In addition, knowing blood tests and why you're ordering them is so important. I don't get it now!! May be that's why i'm an eager beaver to do them on wards as a student with an fy1. I feel these "boring" tasks are the core of medical practice.. without ordering investigations we wont come to a diagnosis or rule differentials out... without a clear discharge summary, a patient may not be given appropriate care in community. I think everything is important in medicine... i hope i think like that on the job though. I hope fy2 is better for you, and i really believe that in any job, especially medicine, it's what you make of it! :) goodluck |
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Re: I'm an FY1. Not a secretary.
posted at 26/5/2012 11:07 AM BST
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First: 7/5/2009 Last: 2/4/2013 |
@ JJA: I think you got it all wrong. Please don't compare writing notes on a patients bedside or a discharge summary for him/her to a secretarial job. If this is a secretarial job than we should probably consider stopping writing patient's history on admission too. As for the knowledge being less than a final year student is concerned, it is because at the undergrad level you only need to know more facts ( Theory) and do less. While at the post med school you not only need to know, retain , refresh but have also to do paper work. Good (patient ) work helps you in the long run too. i learned taking a good history, documenting all findings of my patients and their lab reports when i was a house officer many years back. This habit helped me, my colleagues and my patients all these years even when i am working as a consultant.
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