Jacob Foster

Specialty Registrar in Histopathology 🔬

[The BMA @TheBMA]

Doctors have suffered the biggest salary reductions of any profession in the last 20 years, when inflation is considered.

This new research will come as no surprise to our members, but will the Government finally take notice? https://t.co/AbNqQfT5SU

[Jacob Foster @JacobCFoster]

I was told there are hundreds of people waiting in my region alone for uplifts and yet nothing is being done! How much longer am I expected to wait?

[The BMA @TheBMA]

This new research is a sad indictment of NHS bodies and the Government, who collaborated in a headlong rush to expand the roles of physician and anaesthesia associates without first amassing the evidence that the role was safe.

Our press response: https://t.co/rtms9Esajh

[Dr Luke Craddock @DrLukeCraddock]

Issue one - competition ratios

When my cohort started medical school, the average competition ratio was 1.8/1, last year it was 4.7/1.

We do not know the full scale of the damage this year. However, these are the specialties we have number of applications data for.

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[Jacob Foster @JacobCFoster]

@thewelshmedic @NWSSP

[Jacob Foster @JacobCFoster]

@thewelshmedic My understanding is that NWSSP is responsible for managing our employment contract as a Single Lead Employer for all trainees, Velindre NHS Trust is our employing organisation, and HEIW manages the Foundation Programme... I've put NWSSP and used the SLE address 🤷🏼‍♂️

[FFLM @FFLMUK]

Please click on the link below to view the FFLM Position Statement on Physician Associates
https://t.co/MDIUKH7ixC

[Jacob Foster @JacobCFoster]

@dralirobb @RCPath @ACP_Pathologist Thanks @dralirobb - hope all is well with you too!

[Jacob Foster @JacobCFoster]

Would highly recommend the #PathToSuccess event for anyone interested in laboratory specialties! Here's a sneaky peek at what went on last year, from ACP news #P2S24 @RCPath @ACP_Pathologist

[Ali Robb @dralirobb]

Booking for Path to Success 2024 is open! Looking for a different career path? Think about medical laboratory specialties and pathology: book your place now

https://t.co/hE4t0gvRb8

#P2S24 @MADEinHEENE @nhsfyp @RCPath @ACP_Pathologist @ilovepathology @matt83c

[JClinPath_BMJ @JClinPath_BMJ]

▶️ Attitudes of UK pathologists and judicial officers towards medicolegal view and grant examinations
▶️Discover how these perspectives influence decision-making in forensic pathology and the implications for future policies
@JacobCFoster @SamTaylor475 https://t.co/7hC1Et2v9P

[Jacob Foster @JacobCFoster]

The SHAPES study is open to any UK medical student or foundation doctor and measures their perceptions of medical specialists' personality traits using a 5-minute online survey. The survey can be accessed via this link: https://t.co/7CJFCgk2eU.

[JClinPath_BMJ @JClinPath_BMJ]

▶️ Attitudes of UK pathologists and judicial officers towards medicolegal view and grant examinations
▶️Discover how these perspectives influence decision-making in forensic pathology and the implications for future policies
@JacobCFoster @SamTaylor475 https://t.co/7hC1Et2v9P

[Jacob Foster @JacobCFoster]

Thank you also to @ACP_Pathologist for recognising this project with their 2024 Incentive Prize for Junior Doctors - if you're a doctor pre-specialty training and interested in pathology then I'd really recommend this: https://t.co/hxFlwjUwKv

[Jacob Foster @JacobCFoster]

Our research on the attitudes of UK pathologists and judicial officers towards view and grants is available in JCP, demonstrating how social psychology can interface with forensic pathology to understand decision-making by death investigators: https://t.co/lgpIj2mP2n

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[Jacob Foster @JacobCFoster]

@DundeeForensics @dundeeuni @BathPsychology @UniofBath @JClinPath_BMJ @ACP_Pathologist @SamTaylor475

#autopsy #attitudes #death #decisionmaking #forensicpathology

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[Jacob Foster @JacobCFoster]

Our research on the attitudes of UK pathologists and judicial officers towards view and grants is available in JCP, demonstrating how social psychology can interface with forensic pathology to understand decision-making by death investigators: https://t.co/lgpIj2mP2n

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[Jacob Foster @JacobCFoster]

We propose that findings can be understood using the Theory of Planned Behaviour, and that this can be used to model decision-making in forensic pathology

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