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you see my slides? Yeah. Yeah, I can see his side. Yeah. Okay. I think that sounds live. Um, hello, everybody. Thank you very much for coming. Um, we've got a fantastic talk lined up fuel from doctor is, um a new, uh I juba, um, about, uh, careers in radiology. And, uh, it's an excellent title. Why? I chose the 50 deficient life in a dark room. Um, so that's where I do my hand over, uh, to eczema. That's a fantastic. You guys find this very, very interesting. Uh, radiologists apparently a bit in limbo because I just finished a post ct worship guys. And I'm going to be starting a consultant job in Liverpool next Tuesday. So I'm being a TV a consultant in my title, but a sign the contract. So assuming, um and I'm also the founder of a a a. An organization called Reclast, which I'll tell you about it later, so yeah, that's not this implementation. Hopefully I'll be able to convince you that regularly is the best specialty. You should come into it. So we'll cover this evening. Talk about my personal journey into radiology, how you go about radiology, which broadcast And how can we help you and then answer any questions you may have at the end? So how do I go into radiology? Um, well, I mean, no one really goes into medicine and wanting to be a radiologist. I think that's a fairly a fair statement. I'm giving this talk to the girls go undergraduate, regular society. So you're already added the game and maybe a bit with. But for the most part, people don't really want to Radiology to start with a radiologic success, all their boxes. So in medical, I wanted to be a surgeon very so difficult. This is an investment is actually a foundation. Um, starting with my brother, who's a sergeant, and we're here to get his room hospital, So that's pretty cool. Um, he is three years older than me, and he still hasn't seen the light. So he's just finished a PhD, and it's for three years after training, where, as I'm about to start a consultant job next week, So we know who's winning in that apartment, Um, and then of the Medical Science Foundation. And my first F one job was actually in anesthetics, and I had a really great time. There is a really big department, very friendly, just really enjoyed my basement. So I was really set on applying for anesthetics throughout the whole of F one and stuff, too. But then, as I approached applications, I sort of had a real crisis of my confidence. And I thought to myself, and I really want to give the anesthetics. Um, was my experience as an F one representative of what it's like to be a full trained in these tests. And so I thought the things I like about anesthetic to, uh um, So the variety is very multi system. You get to get to be involved in procedures with involving all parts of the body and also the camaraderie. So you got a nice big department and a lot of colleagues to chat to. You don't have as much working anesthetics. They don't walk around. You don't have somebody to sort of worry about, get to sit around a lot in theater and how regular coffee breaks. So that was in the right department. But in this State Department was sick patients crash calls, you awards frequent, like carrying a bleep and actually, um, my life was about 20% of the anesthetics. And what I didn't like about 80% of anesthetic. So and at that point, I had to treat myself and decided that I didn't want to do anesthetics. Sorry. And so I had to think what else I can do. And I think if you look at some of these, um, these, um, things in the right column what they sound quite familiar to, um, so radiology and trying to find a friend who's cousin was doing radiology and said it was he really enjoyed it. And so I applied to radiology instead. And the rest is history. So I did my training in my S t 1 25. Then I finished training last 2021 summer, and it's just did a year post CT fellowship guys in London, and I just finished that. And I said, I'm going to be starting a consultant job in Liverpool next week. So, um, what I think makes radiology great. Um, definitely the variety and flexibility, Um, and that comes as a result of both the range of imaging modality to get, um, you get get exposure to and also the fact that you can, uh, you get exposed to pathology from all over the body. So, um, you get a CT, MRI, ultrasound, nuclear medicine studies, philosophy, studies and neurology cardiovascular, your dental fantastic and G I cases you might be doing the range of those in a single day. Um, and radiologists there said to be the last true generalists, Um, in that you can do anything with a report studies from a range of different body systems. Um, and stay very general. Um, and it's also a lot of flexibility. So if you do decide that you like one particular area more than others. So, for example, I learnt head and neck some specialist dermatologist. Then you can spend more time question on that area and become a real expert in that one month that it's in that one area but part of the body, um, and maybe give lessons the other stuff. So you can say quite broad and generally if you want or you can be very self specialist. And certainly with the medicine nowadays has become more complicated, more complex. There is a drive more towards specialization. Um, people focusing on one part of the body part um, if you work in a small TDH or then you can definitely say that if you want. Um, then we have the lifestyle aspect of it. So, radiology, Um, it's quite a large department, like anesthetics is there are loads of radiologists in the hospital. Um, so you have lots of colleagues as well be comfortable with and chat with them and they basically being with my head and my colleagues guys and you can change our happy international economics, Um, you working is quite nice. Generally you're in a quiet, air conditioned office or reporting you can listen to music when you're reporting. So I tend to put on some five beats or some classical music. But I'm reporting because it helps you just get in the zone. Other people might listen too heavy metal or listen to podcasts. It just depends what you what you like. But as long as you're doing the reporting, no one has an issue with things like that. You can have unlimited coffee breaks, so no one's sort of the colonial shoulder, and you have the flexibility to sort of come and choose and breaks essentially throughout the day. And then you also have teleradiology, which is another thing which facilitates a good lifestyle. So teleradiology you guys may or may not know is where you basically have a work station in your house. Or just ability to access images from the hospital from the hospital remotely at home, whether that's through the work station on your laptop, and so that means you can report scan remotely. You can do on calls from home, um, or even from abroad. So when I was in Chester when I was training in Chest Hospital, one of the consultants from Chester left and went back to Croatia, Um, and continue doing work for Chest Hospital from Croatia using the radiology, and it's also used for private work. So, um, when you if you sign up to report for teleradiology company or install a workstation in your house, and then you can just choose when you want to do some extra reporting. So it's not like even medicine and surgery where if you do private work, you know during the evening so we can try to go over to a private hospital and see patients in the clinic. In radiology, you can just be like a moving. I want to report, and then we'll need and pay for dinner and just like, on the computer and report them and then be done with it. So, um, I think that's really useful for that as well. Um, sorry to interrupt. Um, we're getting a bit of a bad connection. Um, from yourself. Um, I just asked fill the best way to solve this, and he said it might help if you refresh your browser. Okay. Refresh my browser. Yes. All right. Sorry about that. Everyone will just wait for the asthma to rejoin the call. I am back. Uh, let me just check. Uh, Am I still showing my screen? Uh, no. Uh, it's, uh it's whatever it is. Yeah. Okay, let's see. Um, I am sat right by my return to avoid any, uh, to get the best life. Um uh, because it seems to me for now, it seems to be a lot better now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I can get Where was it? Where were you losing me from? The whole thing It was It was It was a point throughout, but I think we could hear what you're saying. It was just it would pause for a second, and then we would catch up with what you were saying. Okay, um, do you want me to just continue from where I was? Or do you want me to repeat any bits? I mean, I think if you can continue it from where you're from, it was more of, like, a annoying thing rather than not be able to hear what you're saying, Okay, No worries or hopefully that sorted out. So training. Um, so another really appealing part of radiology is a training, um, To start with, it's run through training. And what run free training means is that once you get into radiology, um, there are no more sort of interviews or competitive stages until you finish and you apply for a consultant job. So generally in radiology, where you do foundation, and then you have to go through the radiology specialty application process. But if you get through that, you become a trainee and the training last from ST 1 25 or 26. If you do interventional radiology and then after that, you're done, and you can just apply for a consultant job. I chose the fellowship, which is an extra year, which is some people choose to do. Others don't. It's not essential. But after that, after you finish training, you can apply for a consultant job. And the good thing about radiology is that because there's such a high need for radiologists and there's really an imbalance in the number of radiologist compared to how many are needed, there are loads of consultant jobs. So when you finish training, you are going to get a consultant job. If you contrast with state surgery, you do foundation. Then you have a competitive application process to go into course surgical training. Then you have another competitive application process of going to a specialty surgical training, and then at the end of that, you get your life consultant job. But there are There are no consultant jobs and a lot of surgical specialties because there's just there's just too many consultants, Um, and too many trains and not enough jobs. So you get to the end of training and you end up doing two or three fellowships waiting for someone to die basically, so you can then get a consultant job. So radiology, much short training, Um, and lots of jobs at the end of it. Um, the actual training, um, is the training is is you're you're actually learning rather than service provision. So radiology is a specialty is very consultant lead, which means that a lot of the the responsibility, um and the formal reporting is done by consultants. And as a trainee, you don't really have much official responsibility. So you basically spend all your all of your time and learning and learning from the consultants doing supervised reports doing supervised procedures. So it's not like being on the ward's where you spend probably 7 to 20 of your time doing terms provision like war drowned and discharge summaries. And then, if you're lucky, you might get to sneak out the theater once a week. Radiology is not like that. And certainly when I was training a lot of the time, I just felt like a well paid medical student because there's nothing really expected of you apart from learning, don't have to carry a BLEEP that's a great part of being a radiology trainee. Um, and yeah, it's generally quite pleasant experience existence compared to other other parts of medicine technology. It's also massively, massively important in radiology. So for those of you who are very technical savvy or interested in technology, this should be something that makes radiology more appealing to you. So you'll you'll have heard of artificial intelligence. Um, this is something that really started being talked about a lot of the year after I apply for radiology. And certainly the initial tone of the conversation was about how Artificial Intentions was going to replace radiologists. I'm not going to lie. I was originally scared. I'm thinking, Oh God, why? Just as I go into radiology, this technology comes out and I'm going to be obsolete in, like, 10 years. But that's as as we know, more and more about the technology and its limitations. Um, it's evident that it's not going to replace. Radiologist is going to help with, um specific tasks like spotting things like spotting nodule, for example, and quantifying them. But radiology is not just playing. Where's Wally? Um, we call clinical radiologist for a reason, and a lot of your image interpretation requires that background, medical knowledge and clinical knowledge in order to arrive at the proper diagnosis. So the computer is not going to be reporting a complex post surgical abdomen in a patient with inflammatory bowel disease any time soon. So certainly artificial intelligence is not going to replace the radiologists. Um, but it's a technology that is, um, definitely exciting. Um, so it's in the embryonic phase. But it's something that, as you guys go into radiology, you can maybe play a role in developing Radionics. That's another sort of exciting new area of radiology, essentially seeing beyond the pixel. So the the idea is that when we look at an image, we're only seeing the grayscale, and there's more information beyond that that we can't do of our own eyes. Um, almost like the genetic makeup of, say, a particular tumor, which can help in terms of assessing treatment, response and prognostications. So these are all things which are going to sort of promote precision medicine and make radiology even more pivotal to diagnosis and prognostication. Um, so, yeah, if you're interested in tech, you can. It's definitely a good specialist specialty to go into, and you can play a role in developing a lot of these technologies. Um, you have the fact that we're the doctor's doctor, so radiology is really central to patient care. Um, and it's become increasingly so. I mean, it's very rare that a patient now goes through a hospital state without having some form of medical imaging. Um, and therefore we're really important in terms of providing advisor conditions. They always come and ask about the most appropriate imaging for patients, or what, what is on a scan and how it influences management, and they really value radiologist input. So, um, you do provide that really important sort of consultation service to other doctors? Um, And then you have one particular format, like multidisciplinary team meetings, which some of you will have heard of. Maybe some of you will have attended where a large group of clinicians and we'll get together and discuss. Complex case is often the active cancer cases, and there will be, uh, the surgeons there, the oncologist, the dieticians and the radiologist. And it's often it's usually the radiologist who really leads these mutts, presents the imaging and informs the management plan based on the imaging findings. So I'm just gonna take a swig of water, actually bare with me. So, um, what are some of the misconceptions about radiology? Lack of patient contact. So there are lots of parts of radiology where you have more than enough patient contact. There are practical imaging. Um, modality. So ultrasound and fluoroscopy. And that's before we even speak about interventional radiology. Um, so this is a picture of me. Um, that guy is doing an ultrasound guided needle procedure. So if in a probably I'm sticking a needle in this patient's neck on the ultrasound guidance to sample of thyroid nodule, um, and certainly, um uh, for me, a couple of ultrasound lists a week is more than enough patient contact. The novelty of speaking to patients does wear off. Trust me. Um, if you're someone who really, really derives joy from having regular patient contact May may be radiology isn't for you, but I think for most people, there is more than enough patient contact in radiology and certainly interventional radiology. Another misconception is that basically all radiologists do is sit in a dark room and report all day. Um, so, um, that's not true. So part of the press, This is my job plan for my consulting job next week. And you can see in yellow. I've put a reporting session, so we've got some heavy. Not reporting on Monday, Tuesday, all day. And then Friday, um, Friday morning. So that's four sessions out of 10 in a week where I'm reporting. So less than half the week, I got three sessions where I'm either preparing for diabetes or delivering mg. Th This is the head and neck one. This is the chest one. Um, I have. And then I have one session Wednesday afternoon when I'm doing ultrasound. And finally, the aspirations and core biopsies. I'm actually often Thursday, so I only work four days a week and the man down from home, because it can all be done via home teleradiology home reporting and preparing the m E t. S. I don't need to be in for that. Right? So, yeah, in a week, I actually spend only less than half the time reporting, Um, and the other time doing m e t preparation and practical procedures. So we certainly don't just report all day. Um, And radiology antisocial. Definitely a misconception. As I've said, you have big department with lots of colleagues to chat too, So, yeah, that's not the case. Um, just a little bit specifically on interventional radiology um, so intervention radiology is minimally, um, minimally invasive. That's meant to say, um, image guided procedure. So basically, as a radiologist in particular, interest in interventional radiology use image guidance to perform procedures. So you're sort of combining your expertise of image and interpretation and also practical skills. And generally, this would involve gaining access to a part of the body, often the vessels by a small incision, perhaps in the groin, and through they put in various wires and catheters and can do all sorts of amazing procedures. Just buy a small point of access. Um, so I mean, you've got vascular intervention, So this is, um, an endovascular aneurysm repair. So this patient access would have been going to this patient's, um, I iliac vessels and femoral vessels via the groin. And then you put wires up into the aorta and slide various stents over them and expand them. Be an aneurysm. You can probably see the excluded aneurysm sack around there and, yeah, manage an aneurysm. That's vascular intervention. That's one type intervention where you'll often work with vascular surgeons in hybrid joint procedures. Um, interventional oncology is an exciting area of interventional radiology. Um, that is really, um, developing very rapidly. And it's way use, um, interventional radiology to perform to treat oncological diseases. So this, for example, is probably a liver metastasis. And under CT guidance, you insert a probe, um, and oblate lesion using radio frequency waves or using heat. So intervention, quality, very exciting part of interventional radiology, which is growing. And then for the real sort of adrenaline junkies amongst you, interventional neuroradiology, um, is really sort of the top end of of tertiary tertiary, uh, doing things like coiling, um, aneurysms or, in this case, from vasectomy. So you can see this place is probably got an emcee, a infarct, a lack of filling defect here and by inserting wires, um, you can put out the clock and then you can return, um, circulation to that part of the brain, which was which was under perfused. So the procedures can be very, very satisfied. And you have patients who come in completely unconscious, unable to speak. You go in, do your procedure, put out the clot, and then they open your eyes and you're able to have a conversation within 15 minutes. So certainly, if you want to make a big difference. Um, something like interventional radiology. Um, it might be for you. Um, so if you do, I are. There's an actual year of training, so it goes to ST six rather than just s t five. So I mean, I've given you all the positives, maybe an idealistic view of radiology, but I suppose that's the point of this session. But just to give you some of the flipside, so you can't say I didn't. You go into it. You can go into it with your eyes open. The physics is a part of radiology that people don't necessarily love. Uh, a lot of medicine is about biology, maybe a bit of chemistry. Very few people go into medicine for the physical side of it. So, um, it's often the first visit people have done properly since a level, and they can find it difficult, but I wouldn't let that put you off. Most people are in the same boat and don't love physics, but they get through the physical component of the park. One exam, um, sufficiently to pass. So it's certainly something that people don't love, but I wouldn't let it put you off from pursuing radiology. Um, too many scans. Not enough. Radiologist. So, yeah, we're sort of a victim of our own success in this department. While it's good to be in demand, um, the demand is growing faster than the number of radiologists. So basically, there's never ending workload. You can never actually clear the work list. There's always more scans to report. Um, uncles, you may not be carrying a bleep, but they're not a walk in the park. They can be very, very grueling. High volume of scans being requested, and you have to report while simultaneously taking phone calls. So, um, uncles can be quite crawling, But the way I see it, um, no matter how bad it gets, it's still not as bad as being on the ward. You can still sort of go have a coffee break and just take five minutes to yourself, and you're still in a nice reporting room rather than on a smelly ward. So, yeah, it's busy, but it still could be worse. And yeah, even with mg ts, um, you might have 30 patients to prepare for an M. E t. And you only have one session to prepare those cases in so invariably you end up taking going home and continuing the preparation for that. So these are all things which are not unique to radiology. Really? The NHS is overstretched. Um uh, and so that's the reality. But there are there is sort of hope on the horizon. So the r C are are increasing training numbers, which is good for you guys because it means that when you guys are applying, there will be more spaces for you and also things like a I hopefully, um can actually be useful in reducing some of the burden in the next 10 to 20 years as it becomes more and more, um, able to to take some of those basic, um, image intensification skills off of the radiologist, Um, lack of recognition within and outside medicine. So certainly outside medicine people don't know what radiologists are. They don't know your doctors. You'll frequently get confused with the radiography or radiotherapist, which is fine, um, and in in medicine. And you are sort of in the background. Um, and you maybe don't get as much of recognition as maybe the surgeons do. Um, so if you if you are someone who likes to be the main character in in the movie. Then bear that in mind that maybe you could go into interventional radiology. But if you're someone who doesn't mind being on the fringes like me, then radiology is perfect for you, and then you do the skill in other areas of medicine. Um, and this is something that I was definitely conscious of when I went into radiology, and I like, I thought, I'm gonna have to do a and Elocon's to maintain my skills and just focus on trying to retain some of that clinical stuff. But as with anything you get more experienced in and specialize in, you have to let go of old knowledge. If you speak to a surgeon about a medical condition, they'll have no idea what you're talking about. So, um, it's just the reality that you will lose some skills, but then you're gaining radiology skills, so I would look at it as skills you're gaining rather than skills. You're losing. But yeah, certainly. If I'm on a plane and someone else is there a doctor on board? I lower my gaze and continued drinking on my, uh, my whiskey. Okay, so applying to radiology. So you've you've heard the good, Um, not so good. So assuming you still want to apply, the first thing to know about is it is competitive not to necessarily scare you guys, but just so you go into it with your eyes open. So if you look, the competition ratios are increasing sort of every year. And that's as people realize that it is a bit of a life back, and it's definitely the best specialty in the hospital. Um, now this will be These competition ratios will be inflated by people who just throw in radiology application. You don't really want to do it, and that's that's not an uncommon thing. People might apply for, um, surgery and just check in the radiology application or medicine and throwing a radiology applicator. So, um, it may be half of that of people who really, really want to do radiology, but certainly it's quite competitive. And if you compare it to some of the other hospital specialties, it's more competitive. To course. Surgical training, anesthetics, medical training don't want to be a medic these days, Um, but not as competitive as some of the more niche areas like ophthalmology. Obviously very competitive. Um, so with that in mind, what does the perfect radio radiology portfolio consist of? So these are really taken from the scoring criteria of the most recent specialty applications. Um, so they want you to show commitment to a specialty. Um, and that includes doing a taste a week, which you have to do, um, in f before you apply. And that's just spending three days in the department may be doing a radiology elective and doing some radiology focus courses. Um, now, as we have a lot of these things you don't want to be getting, don't don't worry about these things too early in med school. A lot of the stuff you did in med school won't even count. So it's just to sort of bear in mind the things you want to be thinking about doing in foundation. I wouldn't stress if you're elected, doesn't have radiology in it. And mine didn't. The only thing that's a real requirement is that you do a taste a week before applying for radiology, which I'm sure you all do. If you're interested in radiology additional degrees. I've got that highlighted in yellow because certainly in the medical, Um um um, specialty application process, which has been released earlier than radiology. They removed this, um, this as giving you extra points because they said it wasn't fair, because have easier access doing additional degrees and others, which I don't necessarily agree with because the medicine is an academic and competitive issue. So what's the point if you stop giving people points for extra academic abilities, But anyway, um, I imagine that probably it may not score your points by the time you guys are applying for radiology. Quality improvement projects and audits will be the bane of your life once you start, Um, so once you start, once you qualify, you'll have to do once a year at least just to just for your portfolio. But for applying for radiology, you get points. If you've done, um, at least one or you get points. You've done at least one radiology focus, audit a year in foundation, and you've done a full cycle audit. So that's something to just bear in mind, but not something that you need to worry about while in medical school, um, publications and presentation. So you get points for these being a first offer is good has to be radiology focus, and this could be you can present a national or international conference. Presentations are much easier to come by then. Publications, um, can do presentation on any sort of thing would be maybe an audit and submit that to a conference. Generally, you have to pay to go to the conferences, and so they accept anything because it's just more money for the conference. Um, publications are quite difficult to achieve, and certainly when I was in medical school, I thought I had to start the publications. Everyone's in publications. Then you realized that actually, very few people have publications, and it's difficult to do a good publication. I'm about to start consulting job, and my only publication is on podcasting in radiology. So that's not even real, and that I didn't have that before I applied for radiology, so I wouldn't stress too much over that. But if you can get publications, then that's always good, Um and then teaching. So delivering regional National international teaching that's radiology focused. It's good because it develops you as a teacher, and it's also important to always get feedback when you do teaching. So these are just some things to bear in mind, but definitely don't stress. You have plenty of time even knowing that radiology is a specialty means you're ahead of the game. The scoring criteria changes every few years, so there's no point working towards going criteria now, which may not even be the case when you're applying. But forewarned is forearmed. So it's just going to have these things in your mind. Um, so on to that class. What is that class and how can you help me? Um, so podcast is a radiology initiative that, um I set up along with two other radiology trainees in 2018, Mohammed and Jamie. Um, and we had a number of reasons we set it up, but one of the main reasons was because we just thought that exposure to radiology both within medicine but especially in med schools really sucks. You don't get talk about radiology. You don't get talked about the importance of radiology allergist and get exposure to any sort of radiological radiological anatomy. So we wanted to We wanted to address this. And certainly doing like this is basically goes back to the roots of why we set up broadcast, so that's very, very good. Um, so what do we do? We have a number of different activities. The thing we started first and it's still sort of our one of our main activities is a monthly podcast, which we do. Um, we talked about various topical issues in radiology, whether that's to do with technology or the workforce crisis. Um, and it's certainly an easy and hopefully entertaining way to find out about radiology, and I could and I would definitely recommend that as medical students is easy thing you can do. Just listen to our podcast. So you got well received. Got five surgeries on iTunes. So some people like them, and this is just sort of selection of some of the stuff we've. We've, we've we've talked about the podcast, so we generally get a guest on. So this was a I in clinical practice with the CEO and co founder of a doctor, that one of the biggest a I radiology companies in the world. So it's good to speak to their CEO. Um, did a podcast on elite sports imaging with Dr Gadget Man. It's Warren who is one of the top, um, SK radiologists in in London and basically reports for all of the Premiership football and rugby teams in London. Um, did a podcast on humanitarian work in radiology with Doctor Liz, you guys who is the founder of a charity called Worldwide Radiology. And they were doing She spoke about all the stuff they're doing in Africa in terms of, um, like, increasing access to a basic radiology services. Obviously, we spent some coated misinformation that podcast. Um and then this is one we did recently with guys from a company in America called Level X, who, basically trying to revolutionize medical education by incorporating gaming into it. And they got some really cool games, which is an educational sort of, um um, uh, spin on them. So they're actually fun games to play. Um, you can download them on on your on your mobile. There's a mobile app for leveling, so, yeah, I'd recommend those, So yeah, these are you can see. It's just like a variety of topics we talk about and we try to keep it nice and light hearted. Um, there's a background sort of educational element to it, but it's really not snooty. and boring. The emphasis is more on sort of the easy listening and entertainment Rather than trying to bore you about radiology facts, we also put on a number, of course, is so we've got radiology application course. So when you go to apply for radiology, give us a shout and we've got a medical education course. And then we've got a course on teaching the fundamentals of audit and quality improvement projects and the radiology crash course about sort of basic radiology interpretation. Um, these are paid four courses. I know students. I mean, I was broke, so I I wouldn't go breaking the bank to do any of these necessarily. And then not relevant for you guys. Um, if there was, if there were a couple that you were interested in, Um, certainly this audit course, I think it's only 10 lbs, actually. And it just if you don't know, we created this because you're getting asked loads of questions about audits. So we just made a quick course. Um, and my co founder of my hand was the guy who did this one, and I don't know how he's doing. He's actually managed to make an audit course entertaining. So he spent a lot of time making it quite funny. Um and so, yeah, if you're interested in doing one of them, that would be relevant. Allergy crash course as well. Teaching radiology theory. But that's 99 lbs, so it's probably too expensive for you guys. Um, we also do competition. So this year, we're very proud. Um, we did the first international competition on radiology Anatomy. Um, called the competition. Now, most of you should know that there was a guy who created who discovered x rays. So it's a fitting to call it after him. Um and yeah, we did this back in August. It was open to medical students and non radiologist doctors. Um, and we had about 80 people signed up. Um, and the winner got, I think, like 50 lb Amazon voucher and a certificate to say that, but an international price. Everyone who who did the competition got a certificate of participation. So it was really, really successful. And we'll be doing this again in 2023 so next year, so keep a look out and you would all be eligible to to enter that social media, and we're not the most active on social media. We generally just put out about our podcast and competitions and so on. But we do sometimes also just tweak out some opinions or teaching. So definitely give us a follow up on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. It's all broadcast academy, and you were also on hand to offer general radiology advice. I think on one of our trust, pilot reviews were described as being the radiology family, so we're very sort of open and approachable. If you have any questions about pursuing the career in radiology and future, the best thing to do is email us hello at broadcast the code, the UK and we'll be happy to sort of speak to you in the in our in our emails. And you can mention that you that you attended this talk this evening So you know how you found us. Um and also you can send us a d m. On social media or just visit our website www dot broadcast code at UK. So thank you very much for listening, guys. That's all from me. Thank you very much. Uh, that was a really, really fantastic doc. I really enjoyed the uh, sort of listening to that. Um, Thank you. Yeah. Thanks. Thanks again. Um, I suppose. Yeah. Um, worth seeing if there are any questions, feel free to put me in the chat and questions are not compulsory. If you don't have any questions, I won't be offended, but, yeah, if you have questions and going to trap. I had one question, um, about your fellowship. I was wondering, what is that? And what did you do? Uh, so a fellowship is where, um, when you finish your training, you do an extra. It can be a year. It can be longer. You do some extra training, usually in a very focused on specialized area. So I wanted to basically focus more on the head and neck Radiology. So I went to guys, which is sort of quite, uh, well known and a prestigious head and neck center, and spent a year doing more tertiary, higher level head and neck reporting, which I got some of at in in Liverpool. But it's just the experience to go to a different department, learn some different skills from different radiologists. Um, and because I technically finished training, um, it means that I had a bit more independence. Um, and you sort of, uh allows you to transition from being a trainee to a consultant, but also with some support and learning along the way. So, yeah, basically, as you saw in that picture, did a lot of ultrasound lists and procedures. Did a lot of head and neck reporting CT and MMR, Um, and just learn more high level head and neck stuff. It's in a lot of fields, a lot of specialties and surgery. It's almost essential because it's sort of adds to your CV, and it makes you more competitive in the consultant job market in radiology. Because there are so many jobs available, it's not really compulsory. A lot of my consultants said that I didn't need to do it, but I wanted to do it to get a bit more experience. Yeah, yeah, I know you're interested in. I are so certainly and I I it's more of a sort of. You're more likely to need to do a fellowship in interventional radiology just because it's a practical thing. And in order to really become an expert and develop the expertise often is beneficial to do a fellowship but yeah, so that's That's ir ir. It's more fellowships are more of a thing in I r than in diagnostic radiology. Let's see. Thank you. One question. Um, may I know what has been your favorite experience in radiology? My favorite experience in radiology. I know. Mhm, mhm. My favorite experience. Probably problems What it's probably doing, um, probably doing, like, some of the procedures. So my specialty is head and neck. You can do core biopsies where you take some samples from tissues in, um, under ultrasound guidance, and they're really fun. Um, it's sort of a bridge between the diagnostic, but also the practical elements. So I really enjoy doing those practical procedures, but then not going the full I are sort of That's not necessarily what I want, but I like doing a bit of practical procedures. Um, yeah, off the top of my head, That's, uh and yeah, I mean, there are so many you do. You do come across so many fascinating, um, pathologies. When I'm reporting. I've always got my hard drive on hand, and I feel like ash from Pokemon. I've actually got I've actually got a spreadsheet called Got to Catch more showing. My You guys really don't know about Pokemon, But yeah, I've got so many really, really fascinating pathologies, um, from across the different body systems, which you just don't get that exposure in in other in other specialties it's. Or if you're a general surgeon, you're just doing colectomies and college vasectomies like forever. Whereas in radiology, you do really get to see the full breath of of of medicine and some really interesting pathologies. So yeah, that's that's cool. Thanks, Don. Really, I don't Fantastic. Well, it doesn't look like there's any more questions unless there's any last minute questions. Um, I suppose I also have to say is thank you so much for such a fantastic talk. Um, really enjoyable. Um Well, good. Thanks. Thanks for inviting me. This was a pleasure. So, yeah, I hope you guys find it useful. And if you want to find out, just if you want any advice, just email. Said hello. And I had a class to go to the UK, and we'll help you out. Fantastic. Um, I, um I should say, um, if you're a Glasgow university student, uh, and you're interested in being coming a member of the Glasgow University Radiology Society. Then please do give us a message. I'll put a link up to our Facebook page in the chat. Um, we have spots for 2nd, 3rd and 4th reps. 2nd, 3rd and 4th year members, uh, and also general members. If you'd like to be in the loop with what we're what we're up to, Um and what else also do is I'll put out the the feedback form, Um, which you can fill out to get a certificate to show that you You came here for your portfolio? Wonderful. Yeah. Do it. Do it. Show your commitment to, uh, radiology. And it's something to talk about in your interviews. I can't actually message in the chat, but yeah. Thank you guys for saying thank you. It was a pleasure. Okay. Uh, right. I'll just