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perfect. OK? Yeah. It's just I couldn't really find a quiet air paste with, uh hi, everyone. We're just live again. It's on you here. We're with, and we're going to talk briefly about emergency medicine in Australia. I'm just gonna check. Everybody's coming in. Yeah. They are always gonna talk about emergency medicine in Australia. We've got Doctor Victoria Connolly here, a medical education fellow with myself in the Southern Trust. And she's a late phase advanced emergency medicine trainee. Doctor Connelly. Thank you very much for speaking to us today. Hello. Uh, let me know if the signal, Uh um, So, um, I yes, Emergency medicine journey in Australia. Um, which is great. I am has come back for you to do medical education, which is also great. Um, the best things I think my emergency medicine are that every day it's totally different today before you have no idea what is coming in. Um, and it's just so variable. And you get a lot of very, very interesting pathologies coming in to get people falling off canyons. You got people starving. You get all in wonderful presentations, and particularly in Australia as well, where you get a lot of out back injuries and Aborigines who have quite severe health problems and just it's quite interesting medicine. Um, I guess the other good thing about medicine in general and what particular emergency medicine is that's really good career to, um, to travel with so you can do lots of different things you know, worked as a ski medic for four months on ski fields in Australia. Um uh, I've worked on a path New Guinea. I've worked in South America. Um, so it's just loads loads of opportunities. And I think it's gonna be was saying before that sometimes you can't walk down and NHS and it sometimes feels a little bit like a treadmill that you're on. But there's lots of opportunities with any career with the medicine or particularly emergency medicine. Um, I think the bad things are, I guess, again, with the most jobs. It's very, very busy, and often you have multiple unwell patient's at once, which can be quite stressful. Um, but you've got a really good support team. Um, that's a great thing about emergency, and I guess the big comparison to GP where I suppose you're dealing with multiple patient's, but At least it's an emergency. You have a team to work with you. Um, so you always feel really supportive? Supported. So there's always someone to ask and someone to get come and help with you. Um, so, yeah, I feel I don't know if there's any questions or what else they should speak about. Doctor Connelly. How did you end up in Australia? Um, so I guess I just got influenced by everybody else. Um, and I wanted to go over and try working in Australia for a while, and then, um, their program is very flexible, so I ended up just working as an S H O for a year and then getting onto their provisional training scheme. Um, and you get four hours of teaching a week. Um, you got a lot of hands on practical experience. It's I guess it's quite a different job in Australia is in the UK. Um, you get to a lot of education to do a lot of chest Reines. You do a lot of procedural situations and fracture. Relocation. Um, so I just thought but it was a good career to keep doing to get a qualification in, Um, I guess I ultimately don't know what I want to do. Long term, you know, Probably part term term, part time consultant. Um, but I would also like to do some maybe more alternative medical careers. So, um, I thought it just give you a wide range of skills. You can apply to lots of other things. Um, lots of the consultants in Australia have a lot of the retrieval medicine. Some of them work for the airlines being doctors on those, um, just such a wide range of of other job opportunities you can get from having a, uh, you know, a generalist qualifications such as a GP or a any? Um, so I think that's one of the big benefits. Brilliant. Doctor Connelly. Um, sounds like keeping keeping the options open for sure. Gotta we question in there from from Lauren thinking similarly similarly to myself for going to Australia was what was that process like? Was there any extra exams qualifications you had to do in order to open that door? So the one thing you address is complete your f i two in the UK that makes things a lot, lot easier if you've only got f I one. It makes it a lot harder to get general registration with the medical board in Australia. Um, but apart from that, completing FY two is really the only requirement. Um, the visa itself, getting that, you know, as any country and a skilled worker Visa is a bit of a Hammond and day about six months, maybe. I think to get the visa. Um, but really, the hospitals sorted a lot of that, and that wasn't really much to do with me at all. But in terms of medical qualifications, they recognize UK medical school and and the foundation program is very high standard. And that, therefore, makes it really easy to transfer over. Whereas other countries such as South Africa got quite a lot of South African friends, they have to jump through a lot more hoops. Um, so going from the UK is very easy. There's no grams to do, which is ideal, brilliant. And folks would invite you to put any more questions in the chat. But I suppose just on the reverse of that Doctor Connelly, I know I've been with you a bit of conflict, of interest on placement for a few weeks. there but had any challenges reverting back to the UK side of things. Sort of flipping the flipping things, right? Uh, not really. I guess it's just kind of some technical things where it's, you know, the brand names of drugs are a little bit different and even, you know, all like the cannulas are slightly different and things like that. But actually, even when you go from hospital to hospital, they're very, very different and even state to state and in Australia very different. So you kind of have to every time you rotate right and you have to learn new things. So you find that you start to become very easily adaptable. Um, I guess the, you know the any here is it's even busier than it is in Australia. And I find that a little bit more difficult to cope with. But apart from that, no, they're quite similar. And, um, you know, everyone. Everyone speaks English, so that makes a lot easier than other places that work. It's a flex flexibility factor. I'm doing human factors this week, and it's all about being flexible, folks. Any other questions for Doctor Connelly? We still have about three or four months, Dr. Coley, Tell us about the time you're on that ship. Yeah. So I worked a little in Papua New Guinea, which was great. Um, it was like an old cruise ship, um, and a medical ship, And we would speedboat out to different island, uh, islander communities, because Papa New Guinea is mostly like, I don't know whether it's between three and 600 islands or something and so very difficult to get around, but it was great seeing a lot of tropical medicine. Um, and seeing a lot of of how and basically trying to manage conditions that you wouldn't be able to refer to. Tertiary hospital, um, and someone on the boat. But American indie jellyfish sting. And then we were having to think about transferring or off the boat in case you went into cardiac arrest. And then it was a three are ambulance from where we would reach land. And it's a lot of logistical things from being on the boat, but, um really great way to see a country that is I probably wouldn't go by myself, do safety issues, but being with the supportive team, um, and meeting, um, happy new Guinean people who were amazing. Um, and yeah, so I think, you know, just lovely. Lovely, like, lots of great opportunities like that. Excellent. Excellent. So we've got about two minutes left. That's or two minutes warning for for this session. But Jessica's in there with a question. Another bit of an elephant in the room. What's the work life balance like compared to the UK. So, unfortunately, I have to say that it is much better, Um, in any specifically, we work four days on per week. So you worked on our shifts? Um, which often are are longer than 10 hours. But you work four days a week, and therefore you always have three days off unless you have an, uh, an on call interspersed which is only normally about once a month or something. So, um, yes, you always have three days off to recuperate. Um, and the pay is a lot better. So there are two things that are are are, unfortunately, a lot better than the UK. Um, but obviously, is what you have to just factor in that your family and friends are very far away. Um, and a little work life balance is better. You know, you're still missing out a lot of things back home. I feel like we're on a life in the sun where we got to wait words up here with the Australian flag and they were trying to say between them Brilliant, brilliant folks. Any last questions for Doctor Connelly? Doctor Calley? That's brilliant. Thank you very much. Thank you. Him for helping there. We're going to go to our break now for five minutes. We'll see you back in five. Everyone see you back in five. Thanks.
