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Hi, Doctor. Mohammed, That's you with Laura There. That is it. Yeah. Perfect. I was going to go in, Uh uh, looking to see if a dodgy as a speaker. Um, so welcome to the emergency medicine breakout room. Everyone, our next speaker is Doctor Mohammed, and he's working in emergency medicine in the UK So the stage is yours, Dr. Yeah, I see it right now. Ready to our level. So high, mo. Uh, I'm gonna be ready. Trainees here in Northern Ireland. I would just give you a brief description about my career before before I start talking about emergency medicine. I used to be a plastic surgeon back on the days, and I changed to emergency medicine. And I will tell you in a second why I did that and why I ended up in Northern Ireland. So, uh, when I went back from from surgery to emergency medicine, I used to be a staff grade in emergency medicine back in England, and I've applied for training, and I got a training number back in England and over here in Northern Ireland, and I choose to, uh, to take the Northern Ireland one. Uh, I'll tell you why Northern Ireland is a lovely country. And, uh, the people here are so chatty, so friendly you will feel like home, even though her home is so far away from me. But I still feel home here. And I never regretted the decision to do my training in Northern Ireland. Uh, now, I will just tell you why. Emergency medicine, uh, emergency medicine is an overwhelming, uh, specialty. You get to know a little bit about almost everything, rather than knowing a lot about one thing. So it's never boring. Yes, your next case would be a broken fake nail, but the one after that would be a sick patient in grace us. And you get to deal with that. So, uh, you'll never feel bored. And you will never walk alone in emergency medicine. So we work as a team. It's never a one man show. So you always get help. You always get support, and you always get somebody to ask you How are you feeling today? Which is brilliant. I didn't get that in surgery. Fair play to surgeons over here, but I didn't get that. So yes, you feel the atmosphere of a team. Uh, one more thing is the self satisfaction you get when when you deal with emergency, uh, patient's, because you get to help them immediately and you get to change. Maybe they're, uh, mood. When, when? When? When you are able to fix them. So you get that, Uh, thank you. And the look of gratitude in their eyes, Yes, we see the bad side of it. We see, we see the sorrow, we see the pain. Uh, we see the loss, but it's just part of the job. So you get the two sides of it, and that's a good thing about emergency. One more thing is the, uh, the variety of cases we get to see everything we get to see, uh, UPS and guiding cases. We get to see beads, we get to see orthopedic cases and the mixture of skills. So, uh, I believe we know how to fix a broken bone or how, at least to reduce it. And we know how to put a chest drain. We know how to suture. Uh, we know how to read any CJ. Okay, which is the thing, by the way. So we need we the the variety of his goals is really, really overwhelming in emergency medicine. Uh, and one more important thing. Which is one of the main reasons why I left surgery. We don't do ward rounds in emergency medicine, so we see the patient's once and that's it. Okay. Are they either fit to go home or someone else would be looking after them? So it's never boring, Never tedious. We don't do those long hours of, uh, ward rounds, which is a personal preference for me. Uh, just like changing the momentum and and just the dynamics of of the the care of patients'. So that's why I changed to emergency medicine. Uh, and also you get to know everyone, uh, like starting from GPS all the way down to other specialties because we work as the police system of of patient's care. We are the wheels who are designed to support the movement of, uh, of patient care or change the direction these patient's know they cannot go home. They need to come in for other specialties to look after them. So you get to make really good, uh, personal relationships. People will get to know you for the good reasons, and sometimes for the bad reasons. It depends on who are you referring? And who are you speaking to? So when I raise the phone and say hi, is that the surgical on call and mow, they will be like, Oh, not again. He's the one who's deflating every acute abdomen resurgence. I'm only talking here, but yes, you get to know all the other members of, uh of the team and you work with physiotherapist to be work with occupational therapist dietician sometimes. So we get to know everyone in the hospital, which is good. So you always feel positive and the atmosphere is always positive in emergency departments. Uh, also you get the flexibility of working hours, so, yes, everyone would say, uh, most of the hours of emergency medicine are unsocial, but I would say no, they are social because we don't do 9 to 5 or days of the week. Sometimes we have to do late shifts. We do night shift. Uh, not as, uh, uh, maybe slightly more than other specialties. But at the end of the day, you get the time in the morning, maybe to take your car to the garage or help your nanny who is her shopping. So we get all go to your politician or hair saloon. So we do. We do have that flexibility of hours. I will tell you a little bit about the downsides of of it. Yes, We have high rates of burnouts, which is which is established. And we know about that that there are a lot of ways to deal with us. Uh, so we have support groups. You will have your mentor and just try to chat to somebody. And you know when When you see that patient and you will be like Oh, my God. I don't know what to do with this. I don't know how to fix them. I don't know what's wrong with them. You just find someone and yes, you can just share your opinions and you will always get that kind of help. So you never walk alone here? I'm not quite sure if there is any questions on the chart. And there was one question there from Lauren. Uh, but you just answered it, um, mo there. So she's happy enough there? She just said thank you. Um, yeah, I suppose like in comparison to like when you were in surgery. Um, you know, what do you feel? Are you know what? What has attracted you to, like what? What makes you feel emergency medicine is better suited for you? Yeah, it's the case mixed. Yeah, it's the case mix. And the team atmosphere, actually. Yeah. So I see a lot of different cases and, uh, different, uh, subspecialties. So that's really the kind of of of specialty I would like to work in rather than just doing one category of patient or one type of patient. It's never, never was self satisfying to me. So yeah, it's just the case. Variety mainly. And the team atmosphere which made me choose emergency. Any other burning questions there? Uh, if anyone has any questions, pop it into the chat box. Very quiet. You've answered all the questions, Moza. Yeah. Uh, I suppose, um, at the minute and we're talking about burnout, like, you know, how long did you say you've been in in emergency medicine at this stage, then? Right. Uh, in training. Um, I mean, the third year, but I've been doing emergency medicine for more than eight years now. Uh, and like, have you seen many changes? in that time in emergency medicine? Yes. Yes. There are a lot changes in terms of what we can do or what we can't do. And in terms of, uh uh, What facilities we have in emergency? When When we started, uh, with emergency medicine were basically saying maybe just the medical side of it, every other specialty were, uh, dealing with their own emergencies. But now we see almost all kind of, uh, emergencies. So that's the thing. And also the multidisciplinary team. Now we have in in emergency. We we never used to have physiotherapists and occupational therapist in the emergency department. Now we have that we have pharmacist. We have pediatricians in emergency in the emergency department. So yes, incorporating so many, uh, members of the team is the thing which has changed recently. That's nice. Is it? Making it more like a multidisciplinary team. Yeah, it's not. It's not so heavily medical. Yeah, thank you so much. Um, no, that was really, really insightful. Um, it was really interesting talk, especially how you've come from a surgical training specialty, So thank you so much for your time. Thanks a lot. Thank you. Um, and if everybody wants to move to the next breakout session