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Happy for you to start. Oh, nice. Hello. Um I don't know if I can see people at the same time or not. Let me just have a look if hello, I think we're just, we were just waiting for one or two people to come. I'm just double checking. If I can. Can you see my screen? Can you message on the chat? Who do we have today? Uh If you don't mind just putting your name and what year, what year of like maybe training or med school or wherever you are in the medical pathway that would be useful. Cos for some reason, I can't see um who's on this or not? If not. That's right. In the meantime, give it one more minute and then we'll start. Oh, nice. Hi. You King. Thanks so much for joining third year. Which university are you at? And what are you cul in? That's an exciting year, right? Nice UCL. Brilliant. So I went to UCL two and so did Nicole organize this. So that sounds, that sounds pretty cool. Women's health is a very difficult PSE um from what I remember with my friends doing it. But um it's a great area of medicine to be in. She's great. Nice. Ok. Well, I'll start because this, um, this session is gonna be recorded as, as it is. Um, and maybe we can, what I'll do is I'll go through my presentation ie um, kind of my med school journey, um, for those who tune in who are, um, maybe, um, looking at this in terms of before, before getting into med school and applying for that. Um And then those that are in med school for opportunities that they can look out for and those that are in foundation year um F one or two or three plus, um if they want to have a look at what's uh what opportunities there are outside of clinical, um maybe loing or just a normal um clinical fellowship. Um This is maybe something a little bit different and those who are in training, um Hopefully, the leadership aspect of this and the program that I'm on will help help. Um in terms of um it may be if you want to take a year out and do the fellowship that I'm doing um or opportunity similar to this. I it's a, it's a good way to kind of put your foot in the water, I guess in that stuff. So to start off with a little bit about me. So uh right now I am technically in my f four year. I am the, my official title is I'm the National Medical Directors, clinical Fellow to the C QC. What that means is that the national A director who was and is um prof Powis, he is the top medic in charge of NHS and NHS England, which has now been disbanded. However, um he has a fellowship program for um lead in terms of leadership for, for medics, about 20 or 25 of them each year. Um And you end up being seconded, which means you'd be, you're sent to another organization in and around healthcare. And I'm be, I've been placed at the CCC. So I applied for this role last year um through an application process um with interviews as well as like a written thing and showing kind of your leadership experience that you can maybe build on. Um And then I've spent the year in the leadership team in CTC, working on projects, working on policy research and meetings with stakeholders and kind of seeing the side of things that isn't as medical and clinical on the day to day wards, but looking at um healthcare from a bigger picture and hopefully I'll talk more about that later in the presentation. I'm also a resident doctor at hospital in Essex. So I spent my F 12 and three year there and I'm still seconded from that hospital and I normally pick up four or five shifts a month at least to keep up my clinical practice um on or weekends A&E and medicine Um, and I've been, um, lucky enough to get into GP training. Um, and I will be going into GP training in August as a GP registrar ST one in East London. That's the good thing about me. So, um in terms of my journey for those that are interested, um and those who are already in medicine, obviously, you do your work experience over the summers, you, you go to a few lectures and this is more out there for those who are applying for medical school. Um The work experience was part, was really important, definitely look around to the hospitals that are local to you to see if they have any programs on volunteering in local hospices, care homes, pharmacists. Um I even volunteered at my school's autistic Youth Club. Um and that was really valuable experience. Um and something I really enjoyed, although something that you wouldn't particularly think of has to do with medicine itself, I also went to like kind of some lectures that Kings used to put on um do some reading around the subjects and um made myself aware of what was healthcare in the news. Um And that, that made sure that I was um up to date with current affairs in terms of healthcare and scientific discoveries. Um And then introduces you to that lingo as well and I did weird wacky things like during the air cadets and have those extracurriculars. And one thing that really helped me out was um going to the unique Oxford Summer school um which was really enjoyable for me to and made me realize as someone who has come from a state school in East London that I can fit in um to environments that are um maybe quote unquote elite. Um And going to university for such a um such a difficult degree, maybe is something attainable for me, even though those around me I didn't see do that. So I think that was really important as a stepping stone for my widening participation journey. Um And um do look out for these type of opportunities when they come around. I know I remember there was a certain trust that used to do some schools at the time as well. However, um II went to the Oxford one and said, and then my time at UCL. Um so I was at UCL for med school um very like happy and proud to have spent maybe at that point a quarter of my life there. So six years. Um So that's, yeah, that's me and my friends kind of having like a good time. And I think that's what it is. You build a community, you have your friends, you kind of go through all the firms together, you go through all the undergraduate lectures together, like you go through all the exam stresses together to then um to then get, get on to the other side of things and you take it year by year. Um And I enjoyed my time at med school because I tried to make the most of my university life. So I got involved in loads of different things from um this being the charity that I um was part of the founding team of ma of which I'll talk a little bit about later on. And I did my BSE in global health which tied in very closely with global maternal health that I would did research work on. Um I was the head of the academics team at art for about seven years. And I'm now on the executive board. Uh I also um joined uh as a mentor in Target medicine, the widening participation program that myself and NICO know us know each other from um from year one and then became a team leader and then interviewed um UCL medical um prospective students as well, which was really insightful and even started my old start up um to do in med ed and tech um something which we, I no longer have anymore. But um that was more in my early years of med school. And um yeah, and now I'm on the wall of med school as well. Thanks to all the kind of work that I did on the side, which meant that it was really my full time job rather than, rather than medicine, which ended up being kind of on the side, which was very tricky at the time. To balance but also lends me to where I've ended up right now in wanting um to have my medical side and practice, but also wanting a little bit more in terms of either. Um in this case, extracurricular when we were at med school, but also in my case now is have a career um in and around health care, not just on the wards um but outside of it as well, looking at things from a big picture. Um I think I've seen some talks um before about life as a junior doctor and how tricky it can be. Um Well, I think I was really lucky in that. I had a lot of good friends around me when I was at um the hospital, I was in F one and F two. I was actually before I joi had the placements or got into the hospital. We at the, at that time had a choice to like rank where we wanted to go and I actually spoke to some people I knew in the years above and the best to um the best kind of advice they gave me was go to somewhere that you enjoy has a good working environment, has good, like culture and people who are like, who are friendly, who are approachable, who aren't kind of um maybe, maybe as cut throat as what I or competitive as I