who knows what to do?
i will admit to feeling some relief when the review announcement was made. relieved that i would have an opportunity to have an interview in my first choice deanery and also relieved that the interview i have already had would still count for something.
but the situation is still absolutely ridiculous. the whole point of this bloddy thing in the first place was to ensure a fair, unbiased, reproducible national application system. now we are looking at a situation where the shortlisting process was judged so flawed it could not be relied upon, and yet we are still relying on it at this stage. scotland and wales have opted out. specialties within deaneries are opting out (the latest seems to be neuro in the south west) and the surgeons are creating some kind of temporary training posts.
so, not really a fair, national system then.
and not one that can be reproduced. i bloody hope not anyway.
some people will have four interviews and therefore four chances of being offered a job. others will have one shot. and that really is literally one shot because it is looking less and less likely that there will be a round 2. or if there is it will be tiny. people will be offered jobs in the first round even if they may not be the perfect candidate because trusts and consultants will need their junior posts filled by august. who will really take the risk of rejecting an ok candidate in the hope that someone amazing will come along in round 2 which might not actually happen? i just can't see it happening like that.
and i'm normally a pretty optimistic person.
this is just getting so hard. at every corner i have hope that this time it willbe put right. then there are changes - changes that make the system more unfair and disadvantage and alienate a whole other sub-group of junior doctor. and so we fight again. and so on and so forth.
is it too late? has it gone too far to put this mess right? i would like to think not. and i would like to thank remedyuk for their unbelievable efforts and fight. thank goodness for them. imagine if we had had to rely on the BMA for anything.
my eyes grow weary and my fingers are cramped from keeping them crossed for so long. i will continue to support the fight. it is after all a fight for justice, for freedom of choice and our futures. a fight for the health service in this country and therefore a fight for all my past, present and future patients. it is a fight for everyone. i just hope other people can see that too.
