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Divided like into different regions. So if you can think of dry as like different regions in the country could be in England, it could be in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, but just think of it that way. So in England, I've listed um the number of the dries that we have. For instance, you have the East Midlands, you have east of England, you have Kent and Sussex, you have your London Dry North East Diary, Northwest, which is the dry I'm from and the list goes on and then you have um I think for Scotland, Wales are not an island when I checked. It's not necessarily, they, they don't have as many um training regions as England. So the posts also will be quite a few. So these des like would actually publish. I think there's actually a list on the website. They'll publish a list of the post, the available post possibly that they will have for the year. Um Sorry, just doing a house check just cause I was looking at the charts. How is everyone following me? Is there any issue at the moment? OK. I will just continue. I can't see a reply. On the chat board. I just need to be sure that we are actually following. Ok, fine, fine. I'll continue then. Thanks. So this dinners, like I said, would show like how many trainees they will take for the year that can really be modified or be changed during the office period. So don't really bank on it. Just have a rough idea actually of what exactly um how many trainees they are going to take. And then there are some dedicated IR posts. So nowadays are they are actually dedicated interventional radiology posts which if you get on to, you are basically on the interventional radiology pathway. The training is still pretty much similar to the other trainees. But in that one, you know that what you are going to c is like pure interventional in whatever aspects that you eventually choose. So the training scheme is like could be an academic system or a traditional system, academy system means that they are like dedicated schools, I would say. So it's a an academy, it's like a classroom setting, not in the main hospital where group of trainees go, you are taught um things that you should know that you should learn as much as possible. It it's like simulating being in a hospital environment. And then the traditional one is, yeah, just in the hospital. Now, the reason why or one of the main reasons why they started the academy from the RCR website was to basically fill the gap of having more trainees within dinners. So I'll give an example for our ST one currently were divided into three blocks at every unit time. So one third of us will be in the academy, which means there is less pressure on the hospitals. The hospitals have a fewer number of trainees which they can actually accommodate to train properly and then you keep rotating amongst yourselves. So I started with the Academy for instance, and then I'm in the hospital now and then another group is currently in the academy so that frees up space for more trainees potentially. Um It's actually very good learning in, in the academy environment. You, you taught a lot actually. And then the traditional, the purely traditional style I would say is there is no academy, but there's push now to actually have these academies. I think in a lot of the regions across England, I've listed the current ones that we have um just given a list for information sake. But yeah, I think that's, that's a summary of how I can describe it. So what's the actual structure itself? So for those that may have trained here in the UK, you know, there's the foundational training doing your fy one year fy two year, those that may have trained in other countries can also have like a foundation equivalent kind of training. Now, the whole idea is you have a re form which if you've applied and been able to write the EM sary was, I assume was accepted already for the sake of um, specialty training. So that's the fy one fy two part of it. And then if you get the job, the training itself is five years training from ST one to ST three is focused on core radiology training. So it's like you need to know everything. Basically, I would say like a general radiologist. So emergency and the various subspecialties, you have a good knowledge. And then from ST four to ST five, you start like gravitating towards your specialty interest. So for instance, let's say I want to do gastro, I want to be a gi radiologist from ST four. I will spend like 40% of my time doing gastro and 60% doing general. And then ST five can switch it or they switch it 60% doing gastro, 40% doing general. And then you see, sit here and become a consultant. If you are going to be doing like pure interventional radiology, which could be vascular radiology. Um Neurointerventional radiology, you would need an extra year. It's like a, it's kind of like a fellowship year, but basically an S six year um where you would sub specialize like into um the interventional aspect. So it could vary between um 5 to 6 years. Basically, that's how the training goes. And this is from the RCR um website. Are there any questions at this point or should I continue OK, fine. Now, to the meat of this presentation, I put the competition ratio here. I was just having a look at it actually from some of the official sources and it's basically change from about 3.6 applicants to one post to 11.9 last year, which means it's, it's getting quite heavy, it's very competitive. However, I think you should just take a deep breath. It's, it's, it looks this way but you need to like not be focused on that. You need to be focused on your own self and your own preparation. And the reason I say this is, I think the MSR exams actually skews this competition ratio which we will not, II don't want us to debate on the pros and cons of having the MSR exams, but it does skew the issue because if you get invited for an interview, for example, last year, I think probably, I don't know the exact number, but let's say 800 was or 700 plus were invited for the interview and they were like shot maybe below 350 positions. So that, that actually reduces the ratio. If you look at it that way, if you always look at the positive part that reduces the ratio to roughly two point something candidates by post