Iona C

FRCA? Completed it mate 💪🏻🙌🏻

Having been a teaching fellow I invested in new outfits to be smart, then grew a human so purchased new clothes, now they are all either too big or too small and don’t suit 😂

Do any other anaesthetic trainees struggle to wear smart clothes for the odd clinics we go too? *attempts not to buy entire new wardrobe*

At what point did councils start actively getting away with leaving pavements thick with ice. Out hospitals are already under pressure. It’s been long enough folk have to venture out for supplies

I wish you good luck upon your wife’s return

It definitely seems to be nasty and eminently spreadable

If you’ve seen me in the local tesco complete with crocs and Bluey jumper no you didn’t

Work is done, presents are wrapped and the wine is poured… Merry Christmas to you and yours!

Family time with loved ones who live abroad is a great food for the soul, watching my daughter belly laugh with my brother put all the nonsense from this week in perspective.

Anaesthesier was tolerable and the bja ed podcasts/rcoa podcasts offered variety

Thanks, it definitely sucks and it sucks how much more I’ll have to dig to find one more mark but I’ll get there!

Me to pal, one mark off 🙄

I have been wonderfully supported & sent home early to recoup. I took multiple attempts at my primary written resulting in a new diagnosis that was impeding things, seems the way of the FRCA is that I’m to stumble on the last hurdle too, questions I was happier with and not ill and I’d have passed

7/

Having more model answers available and at no cost, the book has a limited number of older questions but that is it.

More flexibility of location would be nice, Edinburgh would be a far smaller faff for me to attend. Every medical school could handle the exam without any issue

6/

There are several things that would make this process easier for trainees, early notice of day of the week we are to attend ( it cost £215 for a mediocre room and £150 for flights near the college due to proximity of notice for exam excluding fees of £700

5/

I’ll get there and I’ll be so proud to take her to my FRCA ceremony but this has put such a dampener on Christmas. I will come back and play the game of FRCA again.

4/
My daughter will continue to miss time with mummy with increasing knowledge that I’m AWOL, revising basic science again and again because life goes on and these exams are all consuming.

3/ I’ve consistently had great clinical feedback and consultants were rooting for me. It’s sucking really hard right now. I am frustrated, upset and disappointed this is happening.

2/?

I attended a revision course, picked up some kind of chest infection and had 5 days of fever between the course and my exam. Felt crappy the day of my exam and did my best to miss it by one *****^ mark.

Post grad exams a 🧵
I missed my final viva for the second time but one mark. ONE MARK! I simply couldn’t have given anymore with this round, great feedback in the run up juggling a toddler marriage work and studying took its toll 1/?

a fluffy cat is sitting on a wooden table and asking what just happened ? ALT: a fluffy cat is sitting on a wooden table and asking what just happened ?

That feeling when it’s been a full moon set of nights in matty and you’re not entirely sure which way is up

Meant to be doing lots of studying and note revision for the #finalfrcachat and I’m huddled in bed pyrexic and coughing. Send help, or encouragement

Last weekend before the #endoffrcaquiz and I’m ready for it to be done, feels like the last few weeks of pregnancy, wanting to be on the other side

Flying back up from Mersey and I appear to be all out of cares given, exhausted and ready for home!

It was very bomttu esque and just amazing!

The fabulous @reddyteddy.bsky.social and I caught up this evening, how so much and yet so little has changed

When online friends don’t see each other in a while and you’re 3 glasses of wine deep setting the world to rights! 😍

Heading to this course is going to be the longest time I’ve been away from my daughter, have done plenty of nights etc but never more than one overnight away #doctormummy #mummy

Radial artery when you insert an art line with a senior watching