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Thank you. Uh, Joshua, we've got next Joshua Clements, who will be speaking on Northern Ireland's application for course physical training. And he is currently the Association of Laproscopic Surgeons asset representative. And he's a past assets executive member and general surgeon Registrar. Fantastic. Thank you very much indeed. Ran for the introduction. Um uh, thank you to Connor. Forgiving such a comprehensive overview of the process in the Republic of Ireland. I'm going to try and keep this as brief as possible, and a lot of this largely will just be signed posting. Um, and I'm more than happy, obviously to take questions throughout to keep a close eye on the chat as we go. Um, so in Northern Ireland, um, well, for those that that have never been or or come to Northern Ireland before, the benefit we have really is in enlarge the process. Although it is local recruitment. And what I mean by that is that there is a separate application process specifically just for Northern Ireland. The actual pathway and process is identical to that of those that are playing applying from Scotland, Wales, um, and England, through national recruitment in terms of Northern Ireland Northern Ireland is dictated by just a single greenery. And what I mean by that is that for all those trainees that are training throughout Northern Ireland, you are being managed by the Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency in India, and they have a fantastic website. It's extremely comprehensive, and actually, it really does cover and a really, really nice lady out fashion the exact steps of how you will apply not just to surgery, but for any, um, subspecialty of interest and in each of the application rounds for those that are social media minded again, a lot of the recruitment or the recruiters of which it's health education, cancer suspects for those that are applying nationally. But for those that are hoping to apply locally, Namenda also have a Twitter page. And again, often you will find nowadays. This is where a lot of the information is in really quite nice format for you. The links are often there, Um, and it's sort of are certainly as professionals now, the easiest way through to getting up to date news on most things. So in terms of this is the actual overview of what the actual um Nimda Web site looks like and for those that will be applying to surgery in Northern Ireland, at course, surgical training level. Right on on the home page, you will see specialty recruitment, and if you click on that, you know there is a wealth of information as to the the actual application process, how you will do it and the competition competition ratios, etcetera, etcetera. But like in the rest of the UK, the process is performed through Oriole, and it's very straightforward. The Oriole website, and you click on to it. You click on vacancies, and then you will search for course surgical training in Northern Ireland. So for those that are actually applying, this is exactly the place in which you do it. And as Cano outlined that in the Republic of Ireland, applications have already opened and it's really the start of this are so it's a Thursday of this week is the opening time for applications to Northern Ireland and the closing date. They usually give you a round about a month to do it. But what I would say is this is a process that does take a little bit of time organizing a lot of your portfolio into the correct format. What I would advise and probably one of the biggest things I took away. Not just for course, surgical training, but for higher recruitment is that if you can go on essentially, as and when, if you plan to apply to Northern Ireland, there's a lot of just demographic information. It's about you, your address, a lot of demographics that if you can almost there's no reason why you can't go on their pre populate that in the first day or two, and then all that information is largely there, and there's quite a quite a bit of information to get through, and that doesn't really require any additional sorting or organizational skills to do. And then that leaves you, then a number of weeks prior to the deadline where a large majority of the information that you've already input is saved, whereby you you just have a little bit more time on your hands. And then ultimately it doesn't necessarily become just as much of a rush. You'll see when you go on to click on to this page, the benefit is it gives you a little bit of overview of what you have said in terms of how the recruitment processes, you'll see that there are some links. Um, and also you will find that this area here of documents, it gives you just an idea for those that will be using the Crest Form or the certificate of readiness to enter specialty training to apply through to the Northern Ireland. Greenery can download that and look at it specifically. And then those that will be coming out of largely from found the foundation program or those that have gone through the foundation program. There is a formal personal specification. As you know, most of the time, there will be those that for your portfolio there will be self assessment scoring that hasn't just quite been released yet, and also the dates of when the interview is likely to be have not been released just yet, from from all of the information that I have cleaned. But largely national recruitment will take place in the first couple of weeks of March, usually in my experience, often in Northern Ireland, they will, uh, came to recruit, usually in the weeks, either usually not overlapping, but a week or two afterwards. Um in terms of again because there is so much crossover with national recruitment, health education, England and then re redrafted. Um, they're sort of central hub for information, although it they'll say, medical specialties there. This is applicable to every medical speciality rather than than than just medicine alone over surgery. And again, there's an incredible amount of information really around the logistics of the process. Um, that is readily available, but it's often where people fall short, as it's often they're just not signs posted appropriately to it. And the more time that you have to review how the process works, the better so that it is no longer just as much a rush towards the end. In terms of the interviews again, they're going to be online. This year, Um, Microsoft teams is the modality that is used for national recruitment through health education, England. However, a lot of the Namenda Drift recruitment process is delivered on Zoom, and as I mentioned before, the process is matched to the health education England National recruitment. So, in terms of the format, the stations that you will be put through often portfolio clinical management stations are largely the same in the content is largely the same as well. In terms of just one other thing, it's it's often something okay for those trainees that have trained or done foundation program in Northern Ireland, and it's sometimes just as a as a rite of passage to to train again in Northern Ireland or equally to train in in in the UK Republic of Ireland as well. And but there are some definitely there are some benefits to training in Northern Ireland. Obviously, it's local recruitment, so it's a slightly different process. I know. Last year there were 30 38 posts available and there were 363 applicants, of which then 115 of those were then shortlisted and brought forward to to interview. And all of those posts were filled and other benefits. You know, it's a single employer, so historically, we used to have to do different forms every single time. We changed hospital the hospital, which obviously plays havoc for paychecks and because often you get emergency tax every single time. You changed and it often did create just a lot of headache and a lot of paperwork, but now you have taken over the financial side and the payment side for trainee so often. When you sign on at the very beginning with Linda Linda and they will, then you just do the forms once and then every time you change your pancreas, it just goes up as as you progress through training. And it seems to be a very, very, very full, full proof. And certainly for the last four or five years that I have used it in higher surgical training. It's been really, really, really good. It is a smaller degree, you know, there's 40 give or take 40 court trainees, largely in in CT one and similar C. C. C T two and then, depending on what subspecialty you may be interested in in training in Northern Ireland, it is a smaller place, and so you often find that there's good camaraderie. There's a good network between all of the trainees and peers that that work in the various different grades. We certainly have an excellent training record. I know certainly for me as a general surgeon I have come through. I went although I trained in Liverpool and then my undergraduate degree there, that foundation and then core and then similarly higher surgical training in Northern Ireland. Um, and certainly by computer. And okay, this is just anecdotal training with with other colleagues from right across the country. And certainly, um, I feel as though we do get trained and brought up to standard very, very, very well, not just operatively, but also just our own clinical experience. And the other benefit is, you know, you're largely from Belfast. It's an easy place to commute, too, from anywhere in the UK and further field, but also, um, in terms of just your commute the the the public transport network, but also that for for those that are driving, you're really only in our away at the absolute most from all of the major hospitals. And if your training in Belfast and living in Belfast, you know, you're you're only five minutes drive from from most places, so it is often compared to some of the larger sceneries in the UK, and the travel, which often can be, you know, can be significant. And geography is important for a lot of people, and that as well, um, is also one of the fringe benefits of of training somewhere smaller. So just finally there are. So those are some of the key links for those that are here today. You know, it's potentially worthwhile taking a snapshot of it. Um, not just from the Twitter feeds for places, things like Nimda, the J. C. S T. And those people that are in control of the recruitment process, but also, if you want to find out a little bit more about Northern Ireland, which certainly am biased, too. But I would say it's there's, there's not many places I've been to, and I've been a lot of places in the world better than Northern Ireland. So I'm happy to take any questions unequally, though, if you're moving on to the next presentations, if there are some feeds in the chat, I'm happy to answer those questions as well. Thank you very much, Joshua. No problem. We'll keep an eye out for questions on the chat box. But if yeah, there was one question earlier, just about MRSA for the Republic of Ireland. Certainly it's not required for this intake. I'm not sure what it was like for future intake, but for the quarantine take, it's not required. Practice it as I said, in terms of those that will be applying to Northern Ireland on the basis that it is an identical process to those that are applying nationally, the M S R A. Which is new for this year, is required. Um, as a as a. It's really as a short listing tool for those that are applying to the core surgery in Northern Ireland this year. Thank you very much, Joshua.