FY1, SHO, Registrar, Consultant - Doctor Titles Explained | UK NHS Junior Doctor

[@antohosm43]

An absolutely excellent review, Ollie. I thought I knew 'all about it' since our 2 sons (now senior consultants) went through the 'old' system of training. How wrong I was! This'll be a great help since our grandson is about to enter his sixth (having intercalated) and final undergraduate year at Bristol. Best wishes for your future career. 😀

[@krystalannrowan8531]

Thanks for clearing that up! I’m one of the new international nurses working in the nhs and I was terribly confused.

[@OllieBurtonMed]

Pleased to help and welcome to the NHS!

[@alicemuchoki1019]

I love that you have a patient monitor in the background 😊 been following since the days of explaining Graduate entry in medicine

[@JD-kp6ev]

I would add that pharmacists are generally not considered to be allied health professionals and the term pre reg has been replaced with trainee. Pedantry aside, great video.

[@OllieBurtonMed]

Fair enough, I wasn't aware of that distinction! I still hear the term pre-reg all the time in hospital, must be a similar situation where the older term still persists!

[@dac8939]

Salary is so Bad in UK. Brother was a junior doctor but up brother did a maths degree and masters in Finance and after 3 years was making £130k in London. Medicine pays poor in UK

[@tanmapoy6687]

most of us don't do it for the money pal. we can live comfortably and enjoy practising medicine like we went through med school and a lot of loans to do

[@rosep5502]

This was so well explained, thank you

[@Mwah5800]

Another really informative and clearly explained video, thank you Ollie!

[@vasilisgiannatos1319]

Since you need 2 years for fy training and 2 years for st for most specialties, isn't 4 years the minimum post graduate experience for registras?

[@Sadat56]

Wonderfully explained in simple terms

[@guisilladedino9165]

I love this guy! Great content

[@henrygingercat]

I’ve never understood the term “internal” medicine. Is there external medicine?

[@yvefrancois5928]

dermatology/cosmetics would be considered external in your comparison. The skin is the largest organ of the body and it protects all the internal organs :) Internal medicine focuses on body systems (e.g. gastroenterology [think gut health], etc.)

[@jkiam11]

There's no such thing as external medicine. I think internal medicine is a bit of an old term from a different century, these days it typically refers to specialities like cardiology, respiratory, gastro

[@OllieBurtonMed]

Just means non-surgical! My estimation is that it refers to internal organs but I'm not sure myself where the term comes from

[@henrygingercat]

@@OllieBurtonMed Thanks

[@liv0003]

@@jkiam11 It's funny because in the United States Internal medicine is a medical specialty. Basic training in internal medicine is three years of residency following medical school. Internal Medicine physicians, also known as Internists or Doctors of Internal Medicine, are experts in complexity. They specialize in adult medicine, they are specially trained to solve diagnostic problems, manage severe long-term illnesses, and help patients with multiple, complex chronic conditions. Doesn't the specialty of Internal Medicine exist in the UK as it does in the United States?

[@gcseprep2826]

Hi, Brilliant and encouraging. Can you please tell if a GCSE student can have a placement in NHS to facilitate to medical college entry later? If yes at what age and when & how to apply please.

[@kennedyobiekwe9065]

Hi Ollie , i dont quite think you mentioned Ct1 and St1 , please what are the differences

[@kennedyobiekwe9065]

Thanks a bunch!

[@wolverine8085]

Is LAS ST1 post suitable for doctors who have full gmc registration?

[@drnateyong]

Yes, this post will require full GMC registration. For UK graduates, they would have completed their foundation programme by the time they enter an ST1 post. ST1 or ST2 are very similar to a CST1/2 or an IMT1/2 post; but for specialty programmes like paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, or GP. LAS (locum appointed for service) means that the doctor is appointed by the hospital (NHS Trust) instead of a training post (Health Education England), and they are usually 6 to 12 month contracts and don't count as part of formal training.

[@iandevere6647]

Thank You, very helpful

[@gurbandansingh3195]

Who is your oggy?

[@Coffee_Is_Life_2010]

I think it is medicine but is radiology surgery or medicine

[@OllieBurtonMed]

It's its own pathway that I didn't discuss here - it recruits at ST1 straight after F2. So you don't do either core surgery or IMT, you just go straight into radiology training

[@Coffee_Is_Life_2010]

@@OllieBurtonMed oh ok, thanks a lot.

[@pikusarker1359]

Sir how much do you earn as a doctor? Plz reply. Thanks a lot.

[@Coffee_Is_Life_2010]

He did a video on his first paycheque working as a fy1 doctor working in the general surgery department which after tax came to something like £2500 but he is an fy2 now so the salary has probably gone up.Hope that helped

[@OllieBurtonMed]

Thanks for replying dude - video coming at the end of this week on how much I earned in the first year

[@irenedavo3768]

@@OllieBurtonMed do you know about NHS Complaint System?

[@foal7065]

@@irenedavo3768 PALS?

[@heenasayed7880]

What about a GP training

[@drnateyong]

Full time GP training usually takes 3 years to complete. Trainees are called GP Specialty Trainees (eg GPST1 for first year and so on). They will usually rotate through different specialties in the first 2 years (like O&G, paediatrics, psychiatry), and spend the final year of training (GPST3) in a GP surgery.

[@heenasayed7880]

@@drnateyong thank.you for the detailed reply

[@Coffee_Is_Life_2010]

Is a surgery consultant a surgeon? I want to be a cardiac surgeon so it would be brilliant to know

[@harveersingh9970]

A surgery consult is asking a surgeon for advice. What do you mean?

[@Coffee_Is_Life_2010]

Sorry, I meant consultant

[@geocachingwomble]

What you want to be is a cardiothoracic surgeon known as a CT surgeon consultant

[@Coffee_Is_Life_2010]

@@geocachingwomble oh, ok thanks

[@jkiam11]

A consultant is just the title you get in the UK when you have finished training in a speciality. Surgical consultants are surgeons

[@Coffee_Is_Life_2010]

I am the 8th view, yessss.

[@simongreasley8643]

Fantastic but just a point on presentation skills, bit less handsy.

[@OllieBurtonMed]

Fair enough, looking back I was very handsy for some reason in this one

[@simongreasley8643]

@@OllieBurtonMed you are awesome though.

[@josephe3697]

I wished I had his presentation skills.

[@wentoneisendon6502]

I think he looks fine tbh

[@rosep5502]

This was so well explained, thank you