Dr Nav Sidhu Profile picture
Kairehu mātanga (Anaesthesiologist) at North Shore Hospital, Auckland, NZ Sector 2814. Chair of @ANZCA Educators Subcommittee #MedEd #GastricUltrasound 🇳🇿🇲🇾
Apr 15, 2023 17 tweets 7 min read
1/ Spent the last 30 min on the phone with a UK junior doc and family friend, giving advice on whether to move to NZ or Aus. They suggested I write a 🧵 .... so here goes.
#JuniorDoctorsStrikes #JuniorDoctorsStrike #juniorDoctorStrike @BMA_JuniorDocs 2/ Firstly, agree that the term 'junior doctor' is not perfect and is misconstrued to mean young. A lot of junior docs in UK/NZ/Aus are well into their 30's and have families. All are qualified and trained doctors, who happen to not be consultants
Nov 8, 2021 13 tweets 8 min read
1/
Some recent chatter about single-moment-in-time high-stakes examinations. Let’s call them #SMITHSEx for short.

Here’s why I think #SMITHSEx is dirty and should be consigned to the rubbish bin, as far as postgraduate / specialty medical training is concerned.

A thread 🧵 2/
Been ruminating on this for a while, and a recent #ICRE2021 thread on #SMITHSEx got my attention. @ICREConf