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uh, so our next speaker and is Doctor Kelly Reilly, who is going at the minute and 67. And am I right in saying, Dr. Reilly, you're doing a PhD study in fetal and maternal cardiac biomarkers and preeclampsia? Is that correct? Very good. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so, yeah, The stage is yours, Doctor. Really great. Thank you. Um, so thanks very much for having made a chat today. My, me and focus is just going to be telling you about how great option guy knows and why you should all do it. Um, So, um, at the minute, um, as we said that I'm currently s t seven and I'm doing a PhD and field medicine. But if I chat you through, um, sort of my career journey from the start, um, and then let you know how things go and how you guys would be best fitted to try and apply for absentee any and why it's so good. Um, so did my F one f two. And then, as is fashionable now, the F three year, Um, where I did a little bit of locum in, um and try to figure out what I really wanted to do because initially I thought I wanted to do surgery locum doughnuts and gaining and actually found I really loved it. Um, so then applied that year, um, for the ST one post. So at the minute, I think it's quite competitive. There's 12, um, spots per year. It had originally at one point been a UK wide, but it's back to Northern Ireland. Um, I think, um, selection. So you interview for one of those posts again? Very competitive at the minute, Um, and the same as all specialties. You know, the main most important thing is showing your commitment to the specialty and that your hard worker, um, nobody really expects you to have the exams or have all the relevant cautious and things because you've lowered the time in your seven years of training to do that. Um, so you your first two years arrest you on an S T. Two or your S H o years is such, and that's really trying to get your basic skills. So your clinical and history exam taking, um, some people won't have done anything since Really, fourth year medical school, um, learning how to do some scanning. So part of obscene guinea, which is great, as we, um, are doing a bit of medicine, do a bit of surgery and do a bit of radiology and probably insulting all specialties by saying that, but, um, we get to do a little bit of it all, which is great. Um, and you must do your part of one of your exam, which is the same as all the other part ones. You're sick sciences. Um, and then you get a sort of, um well, an ercp, same as everything. But your step up from your essay due to your originals again is quite a big deal, as we're probably more average heavy, um, specialty than some of the other ones. So, um, when it comes to out of ours, you're on your own. Um, you do have a consultant alcohol? I don't mean to make that sound scary, but it's actually really, um, it's really great because you're giving a lot of autonomy. You're making a lot of decisions by yourself. Um, but obviously, if you're not ready for that or you're you're nervous, it'll is always really, really good support there. Um and I think it tends to be moving more towards consultants being on call. So they are in the hospital, but you're doing most of it. Whereas I know in some other specialities. If you have, for example, an emergency, your consultant will be called in to do it, and you'd assist. Um, so that's one of the really great things I loved about else. Again. Um, your S t 3 to 5 years is sort of your middle training. Um, so that's when you get really good at labor Ward, um, delivering babies, cesarean sections, instrumentals and guy knee surgery. Um, and then your last two years. So you're six and seven is where you decide if you want to be a really good generalist, if you want to branch and go one way or the other. Um, and there's there's a nice sort of area of labs again. You can do that. There's what's called subspecialty training, where you can go down one right? Only. So my aim is to go down the fetal maternal medicine, right? There's also your organic allergy. Um, gynecology, Infertility. Um, so you can do what's called a sub Specialize in where you are. The expert in that area and you stick to that or you can have a special interest and still be a general gynecologist. Um, so there's General Obstetrician Gynecologist. Sorry. So there's there's a lot of scope for lots of interest in things and ups and gaining, and it's great, Um, in terms of the day to day job. So you have your 9 to 5, um, which are your clinics? Your theater lists? Um, and that could be antenatal or gynie, um, or cesarean section lists or gaining, uh, gynecology or general gynie theater lists. Um, and then you have your own calls. So depending what hospital? Generally 8 to 8 or 9 to 9. Something like that. And that's where your own call for mainly labor ward. But you also feel a lot of the acute gynie phone calls, so that will be, um, create topic pregnancy. Someone with abdominal bleeds, um, different bits and pieces. Um, and it's I will tell you. It's one of the most interesting specialties because there's there's not many that you will have seconds to minutes to make a decision. Um, and if you're a bit of an adrenaline junkie, it's a great one for that. Um do. You also will have a lot of support because I know a lot of people worry about often. Get any, Um, What I will say as well is a lot of people have told me, Why did you pick up some guinea? It's not got a great work life balance. And I don't believe that at all. I think like everything, Um, you have to pick and choose. And I've probably made some great great friends and have great life experiences from being part of obscene guinea. And we're really lucky with the Royal College that, um, you know, there's there's such a great focus on world health, um, and Global women's health. So I've been able to travel to ballet to Africa and get involved in loads of different projects. Um and yeah, I think it's I think it's phenomenal, especially in field medicine, which is a newly growing specialty. So, you know, we've got the new twin twin transfusion surgeries. We've got the, um we've got the obstructive balloons for babies with congenital congenital diaphragmatic hernia. So I can't even say that, Um, so there's, you know, there's a great wide range of of things to be done, Um, in terms of the cons of the job, Um, I suppose you do need to be a bit resilient. Um, there are some very hard things that you're gonna say. You're gonna see miscarriages. You're gonna see babies that die. You're gonna see mommy's that are very unwell. And hopefully very, very rarely mummies to die. Um, so but you do You do learn that we are all there for each other, and we all have a really good support network. And I will say that, um what I find and what some of the other specialties and trainees have said to me is that we all seem to be a really close knit group because we've all been through something, and you realize that everybody is there for you. Um, so I think if you want a specialty that feels like a family, um, it's it's a really good one for that. Um, obviously, I'm doing something a little bit different now, going down and off doing the PhD right. Which enough? Think any isn't as common as some of the other specialties, but it's becoming more common. So there is the route. If you want to go down in academia, um, etcetera and, you know, staph grades, um, specialty doctors. They're all available as an option, gaining weight training as well. So, um, yeah, it's a great job. Thank thank you for that doctor. Really, there's no questions, but I was just wondering, like, Is there anything you would recommend to medical student like they what they should get involved in, You know, if they were thinking of going down the tubes and any right. Yeah, Well, as I said, it's kind of the same as every specialty. It's just really important to show that you're keen. So I think there's a woman's health module that you can do and fourth or fifth year medical school. I know Queens definitely offer it, but, um, if you're not going Queens and there's other things that you can do to try and show that you're committed, you can try to get involved in audit projects. Um, I other things that you can do so this prompt or obstetric emergency courses so that when you do go into herbs and any, you know it's not all brand new because, as I say, we are very separate from other medical specialties. So sometimes it's a wee bit overwhelming for people. And if you kind of get your foot in the door, go into some, um, of the obstetric emergency training courses or, um, do you taste or week even. Um, it's great. I just think there's a couple of questions. Um, maybe I said no. I didn't go straight in between after. Actually, I didn't know what I wanted today. I thought I wanted to do surgery. And so I took a year, and it wasn't didn't change how? Um I didn't the interviews at all. If anything, it gave me more time to try and direct my CB towards OBS and any and I think most people are kind of drifting towards taking an F three year from what I can see. Um, Claire, Claire Sentinels wants to know. Do you need to do the MSRA exam to get an interview for ST One posts? Um, I don't know what the MSRA exam is, so probably not, I think Laura it said wasn't that the like course, surgical training? Um, a surgical trainee exam. They just adopted it this year for Obscene Guide. Have they okay? Yeah. Yeah, I think it's more to replace the self assessment. Oh, like the estate tax? Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I am. I'm away. Bit up here, but yes, apparently you do. Um, questions. Yeah. Clare and Alexandra. Just thank you there, Doctor. Thank you so much. We're into our last minute now anyway, so that was really you just fit in perfectly. Thank you so much for your time. And thank you for giving us such a great insight. And Dobson Gainey and know showing it's a great career choice. Uh, it is a promise for not all, uh, people who stay in hospital forever. Thank you so much. And if everybody, if everyone wants to move to the next breakout room Thanks, Kelly. Thank you.