DublinInternDoctor

2019 Dublin Intern Doctor, anonymous for a reason. Views my own. #carecantwait

[Irish Medical Organisation @IMO_IRL]

"We must ensure that doctors at the start of their career enjoy a better work life balance, and the key to this is to firstly accurately measure doctor working hours and bring those hours into compliance with the law". IMO President Dr Padraig McGarry https://t.co/JLTgkliudR

[IrishHealthInsider @health_irish]

A colleague is getting married in December. They notified the hospital far in advance, requesting the time off. Rota is out and guess what?

Scheduled for nights the date of the wedding.

But hey, at least there's mindfulness courses and free yoga for doctors.

[DublinInternDoctor @DoctorDublin]

This 👇 #carecantwait

[IHCA @IHCA_IE]

.⁦@ProfPayEquality⁩: ‘I don’t need yoga, an apple or meditation, I need enough consultant colleagues to allow me to do my job’ ⁦@SimonHarrisTD⁩ ⁦@LeoVaradkar⁩ ⁦@Paschald⁩ ⁦@FineGael⁩ #CareCantWait

[DublinInternDoctor @DoctorDublin]

@DrABurke @IHCA_IE @SimonHarrisTD Or is he a ‘safe’ person to send because he won’t have to follow up on any promises as he’s retiring

[DublinInternDoctor @DoctorDublin]

@re_keogh @Ocionnaith @IHCA_IE @SimonHarrisTD More important than the health service, when he’s minister for health 🤣

[DublinInternDoctor @DoctorDublin]

So disappointing for everyone trying to improve our health care system every day. Leadership is key to changing a broken system, but the health minister isn’t even turning up #carecantwait https://t.co/jYToKi6FtB

[DublinInternDoctor @DoctorDublin]

This 👇

[DublinInternDoctor @DoctorDublin]

@iwantakittennow @Antcon7062 Doesn’t happen in most wards in Connolly.

[DublinInternDoctor @DoctorDublin]

What the actual #carecantwait

[DublinInternDoctor @DoctorDublin]

@juniordoclife Currently the honest answer would be no. But the positive is that there are lots of options within medicine including non-clinical specialties so I’m optimistic that after intern year opportunities will open up

[ScratchpadMD @scratchpadMD]

Medicine inpatient team doing their rounds.

[DublinInternDoctor @DoctorDublin]

Unsafe #carecantwait

[Katie Maher @KatieMaher89]

431 bed acute hospital, 1 Med Reg, 2 SHOs, 1 daytime on-call intern & NO intern after midnight (so 1 SHO doing intern duties leaving TWO medical docs for all 431 inpatients, all acute overnight admissions, thrombolysis & cardiac arrests) Totally unsafe (2) @HSELive @NDTP_HSE

[DublinInternDoctor @DoctorDublin]

Brutal #VaccinesWork

[UK Health Security Agency @UKHSA]

The @WHO has confirmed the UK has lost its ‘measles free’ status. Measles is one of the most infectious diseases known to man and lots of work is underway to combat the rise in cases. Our blog explains the current situation: https://t.co/99jBUnfJiz #ValueofVaccines @DHSCgovuk

[DublinInternDoctor @DoctorDublin]

@SeanArmsostrong Of course not. But it’s more important than that. If we don’t raise awareness of current issues/barriers they will never change for anyone. Nothing will have changed in time for me but it’s still worth trying to improve things for the doctors coming behind us.

[DublinInternDoctor @DoctorDublin]

@aissparkle @MijkBoyle @SeanArmsostrong @drdhanlon @IRE_FJD @HSE_HR @RCSI_Irl @RCPI_news I’m not suggesting the wheel be reinvented. But making more training schemes accessible for doctors with families would just make good sense, especially seen as there are now huge numbers of graduate entry junior doctors who actually want to stay in Ireland.

[DublinInternDoctor @DoctorDublin]

@aissparkle @MijkBoyle @SeanArmsostrong @drdhanlon @IRE_FJD @HSE_HR @RCSI_Irl @RCPI_news 100% agree with all these benefits, even as a student the benefit of moving for placements was obvious. However it would still be possible to make these specialties ‘family friendly’ with simple changes - eg: could move yearly rather than 6monthly and or geographically commutable

[DublinInternDoctor @DoctorDublin]

@SeanArmsostrong @drdhanlon @IRE_FJD @HSE_HR @RCSI_Irl @RCPI_news Great to hear progress is being made. The dialogue sounds slightly incorrect to me to be saying ‘prioritising family friendly’.. Its a fact that people have families and shouldn’t be a hinderance to have one and want to do higher training in Ireland.

[DublinInternDoctor @DoctorDublin]

@SeanArmsostrong @drdhanlon @IRE_FJD @HSE_HR @RCSI_Irl @RCPI_news Surely there’s a better option than eliminating the entire family bearing cohort of junior doctors from the scheme? It can’t be that hard to consider regional rather than national based schemes.. Not ever graduate entry med student wants to be a GP

[DublinInternDoctor @DoctorDublin]

@drdhanlon @IRE_FJD @HSE_HR @RCSI_Irl @RCPI_news Ironically paediatrics apparently amongst worst for being family unfriendly on scheme. When I asked the dept at an information day I was told by an SpR representative to ‘go be a GP’ if I wanted a job that didn’t move me around the country every 6months/was family friendly!