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What do you need to know?. Who am I? Where it is? What is it? What’s it like to work there? Will I like it? Is there anything else to do?. Who am I?. PCMD What I wanted from F1 Why Barnstaple How’s it been. Where is it?. 1 hour from Exeter
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What do you need to know? • Who am I? • Where it is? • What is it? • What’s it like to work there? • Will I like it? • Is there anything else to do?
Who am I? • PCMD • What I wanted from F1 • Why Barnstaple • How’s it been
Where is it? • 1 hour from Exeter • Good connections to London/rest of country from Tiverton parkway • By the beach!
North Devon District Hospital • 340 beds • 300 beds in community • Serves 413,000 people! • 21 F1s • PCMD, Imperial, Kings, Barts, Southampton, Cardiff, Bristol, Keele, Brighton & Sussex, HYMS, Birmingham, Poland • 16 F2s
Highs • Friendly, supportive, approachable staff (including seniors) • High level of responsibility (but supported) • Opportunity to develop practical skills • F1 teaching – 2 hrs/wk • Good broad rotations – most med/surg/MAU • No night shifts! • High banded jobs – (medicine & T&O 40%, surgery & MAU 50%, paeds 5%) • Bun-run lady! • Great lifestyle outside the hospital
What the current F1s say… • “The only place in the UK with a functioning Wimpy!” • “Very good consultants that are approachable & keen to teach” • “The moneys good! – most jobs are banded” • “Fun, friendly working environment” • “Great opportunity to develop practical skills – I got to do an LP in my first week” • “Amazing part of the country to live and work in” • “Good rotations” • “Friendliest hospital I’ve ever experienced!” • “Its been a brilliant year – I’m choosing to stay for F2” • “Great surgical rota – 3 weeks on 2 weeks off!”
Is there anything else to do? • Dr’s Mess • Payday party – last thurs every month. FREE BAR • Amazing surroundings! • Beach BBQs • Surfing • Tarka trail • 2 “clubs”, numerous bars & pubs
F1 Top Tips • Get a clip board • Nurses are your best friends • Buy a wetsuit • Always (claim to anyway) answer your bleep • Don’t be afraid to ask • Drink loads on the wards (of water) • Beware the Christmas party