Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Having been a teaching fellow I invested in new outfits to be smart, then grew a human so purchased new clothes, now they are all either too big or too small and don’t suit 😂 000
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Do any other anaesthetic trainees struggle to wear smart clothes for the odd clinics we go too? *attempts not to buy entire new wardrobe* 101
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 09/01/2025At what point did councils start actively getting away with leaving pavements thick with ice. Out hospitals are already under pressure. It’s been long enough folk have to venture out for supplies 000
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 02/01/2025It definitely seems to be nasty and eminently spreadable 110
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 31/12/2024If you’ve seen me in the local tesco complete with crocs and Bluey jumper no you didn’t 000
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Work is done, presents are wrapped and the wine is poured… Merry Christmas to you and yours! 030
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Family time with loved ones who live abroad is a great food for the soul, watching my daughter belly laugh with my brother put all the nonsense from this week in perspective. 000
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Anaesthesier was tolerable and the bja ed podcasts/rcoa podcasts offered variety 010
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Thanks, it definitely sucks and it sucks how much more I’ll have to dig to find one more mark but I’ll get there! 010
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 18/12/2024I have been wonderfully supported & sent home early to recoup. I took multiple attempts at my primary written resulting in a new diagnosis that was impeding things, seems the way of the FRCA is that I’m to stumble on the last hurdle too, questions I was happier with and not ill and I’d have passed 110
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 18/12/20247/ Having more model answers available and at no cost, the book has a limited number of older questions but that is it. More flexibility of location would be nice, Edinburgh would be a far smaller faff for me to attend. Every medical school could handle the exam without any issue 000
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 18/12/20246/ There are several things that would make this process easier for trainees, early notice of day of the week we are to attend ( it cost £215 for a mediocre room and £150 for flights near the college due to proximity of notice for exam excluding fees of £700 000
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 18/12/20245/ I’ll get there and I’ll be so proud to take her to my FRCA ceremony but this has put such a dampener on Christmas. I will come back and play the game of FRCA again. 011
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 18/12/20244/ My daughter will continue to miss time with mummy with increasing knowledge that I’m AWOL, revising basic science again and again because life goes on and these exams are all consuming. 000
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 18/12/20243/ I’ve consistently had great clinical feedback and consultants were rooting for me. It’s sucking really hard right now. I am frustrated, upset and disappointed this is happening. 100
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 18/12/20242/? I attended a revision course, picked up some kind of chest infection and had 5 days of fever between the course and my exam. Felt crappy the day of my exam and did my best to miss it by one *****^ mark. 000
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Post grad exams a 🧵 I missed my final viva for the second time but one mark. ONE MARK! I simply couldn’t have given anymore with this round, great feedback in the run up juggling a toddler marriage work and studying took its toll 1/? 000
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 16/12/2024That feeling when it’s been a full moon set of nights in matty and you’re not entirely sure which way is upmedia.tenor.coma fluffy cat is sitting on a wooden table and asking what just happened ?ALT: a fluffy cat is sitting on a wooden table and asking what just happened ? 000
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Meant to be doing lots of studying and note revision for the #finalfrcachat and I’m huddled in bed pyrexic and coughing. Send help, or encouragement 000
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Last weekend before the #endoffrcaquiz and I’m ready for it to be done, feels like the last few weeks of pregnancy, wanting to be on the other side 000
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Flying back up from Mersey and I appear to be all out of cares given, exhausted and ready for home! 000
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 25/11/2024The fabulous @reddyteddy.bsky.social and I caught up this evening, how so much and yet so little has changed 110
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 25/11/2024When online friends don’t see each other in a while and you’re 3 glasses of wine deep setting the world to rights! 😍 000
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Heading to this course is going to be the longest time I’ve been away from my daughter, have done plenty of nights etc but never more than one overnight away #doctormummy #mummy 000
Reposted by Iona CSethina Watson @sethina.bsky.social · 07/09/2024Radial artery when you insert an art line with a senior watching 073
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Fellow gas trainees are fab humans, asked if anyone fancies an uber share to the airport after Mersey and two offfers of a lift have come through in 5 minutes! 000
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 24/11/2024How times have changed, 4 day trip to Liverpool in one backpack 010
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 24/11/2024I do still use it especially out of hours for quick cases and when the iv access is 😬. We are a TIVA heavy institution though 011
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Have done this for a while but now have to remember to turn flows down when using volatile 🤦🏼♀️ 111
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 23/11/2024So blessed that my mornings get to look like this, jammies and dog and toddler watching Bluey 010
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I similarly seem to attract a level of obstetric related chaos. It makes for an exciting but exhausting combo 000
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Don’t mind me studying Rupert. Just ignore the choice of comfy sofas at your disposal 🙄 terrier logic 110
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Think I’m starting to reach zero order kinetics, my brain is saturated with all things viva, 2 weeks to go! (I’ll return to my pharmacokinetics quietly at a constant rate…) #finalfrca #soe 000
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Anyone got any recommendations for west end shows on Thursday 5th December, went to lion king in June. 000
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Tell me you have a tiny human and fur baby in your house without telling me you have a tiny human and fur baby 010
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 19/11/2024This time next week will be night one of the Mersey course 🙌🏻 I remember seeing trainees sitting their final FRCA as a med student, hard to believe it’s come round so fast 000
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 18/11/2024This week started better toddler didn’t announce that I wasn’t daddy when I walked into her room this morning 😬 000
Reposted by Iona CAnaesthesia @anaesjournal.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Sterile gowns for spinal anaesthesia – environmental cost without clinical gain: a reply A local survey of 202 anaesthetists found that 88% would consider omitting a sterile gown. There was 95% face mask compliance (elective). #AnSky #MedSky buff.ly/4fBaPU0 buff.ly/3Ze85F9 22411
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Thank you! Have definitely got myself more sorted this time with more study time away from work, was close last time too annoying and reassuring simultaneously 000
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 17/11/2024There’s company in this misery, grateful for fellow colleagues doing vivas at 8:30 on a Sunday because it’s the only time and trying to revise at the park whilst the littles tire themselves out but unless you’re in it or have lived it post grad exams are such a challenge 010
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I know this is my choice to sit the exam post kid but life cannot wait. It’s missing bedtimes and being tetchy in the house and missing social things (as much as toddler parents get) and I keep reminding myself how proud I’ll feel taking her to my FRCA ceremony when it comes 000
Iona C @scotgaslass.bsky.social · 17/11/2024#finalfrca prep for #soe a second time round is tough, add in an offshore husband and 2 year old and it is tough. Hopefully I’ll get it this time and look back and think this was okay. It’s not, it’s tiring and it’s frustrating but, it too shall pass. But I need a reminder it was hard 310
