I think the comments about pay verus job are a bit unfounded given the hours junior doctors work..an 80 hour week on site on call with minimal sleep is the usual.
How would trainee DF boctors fit in with that and the NCHD rotations that follow, given they would have to be transfered from brigade to brigade evey six months for a bout second year to get to SHO status which would be practically useless in the DF any as 99.9% of medical / surgical decisions are made by consultants.
The army could not pay consultant so every time an army doctor has to make a descison it has to be cleared by a consultant. So the army has bought in private consultant time....and there isn't a fit military facility to carry out day to day proceedures such as acute hospitals can.....
having been a victim of the army medical system and ended up in the hands of civvy doctors as a result..off load Army Doctots and replace them with RDF doctors who you can deploy when needed.
Here in Kilkenny the guys just arrive in the Hospital as if it were sick parade..and cut out the middleman.
How would trainee DF boctors fit in with that and the NCHD rotations that follow, given they would have to be transfered from brigade to brigade evey six months for a bout second year to get to SHO status which would be practically useless in the DF any as 99.9% of medical / surgical decisions are made by consultants.
The army could not pay consultant so every time an army doctor has to make a descison it has to be cleared by a consultant. So the army has bought in private consultant time....and there isn't a fit military facility to carry out day to day proceedures such as acute hospitals can.....
having been a victim of the army medical system and ended up in the hands of civvy doctors as a result..off load Army Doctots and replace them with RDF doctors who you can deploy when needed.
Here in Kilkenny the guys just arrive in the Hospital as if it were sick parade..and cut out the middleman.
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