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in our life. And the thing I was, the other thing I wanted to do was yeah, I think we live now. Can you guys post in the chat If you can hear and see us? Yes. Yes. We'll be good. Hm. It seems not really worrying. No one can hear or see us. Really? Yes. Oh, excellent. All right, fine. Right. All right, Well, try to kick off. Let's start 706. So welcome, guys, to our third webinar out of four that will be running this year for the SFP program. Today we'll be focusing on the academic station and in particular, critical appraisal. And then tomorrow we will be looking at clinical scenarios and how to tackle those in terms of prioritization. How to go about presenting. Um, So, yeah, let's kick off today's session, which is critical appraisal. Okay, so, yeah, I'm Alice. Yeah, Um, I'm f one and done is f t. Um and we'll just be doing today sessions and tomorrow session. Any questions? You can put them in the chat, and we will answer them at the end. This is what we'll be doing this evening. Hopefully, that shouldn't be a massive surprise. So talking about the economic station and we'll talk about critical appraisal, and then hopefully that will be too many questions. But we can go to this. I think it's probably also just really, I guess, useful for both me and Alice to kind of, uh just caveat. Everything we're about to say by saying Essentially all the information that we're giving you is based on experience. Um, from ourselves and other people who have kind of been through the academic or specialized foundation program selection. Um, we're not attached to any of these things and all, and a lot of the information we're also giving is freely available. Like publicly. Um, we won't give you any specific information about marking criteria or in 34 months because we don't we don't know anything particularly more exciting or secretive. Um, I suppose everything says it could all be different. This, you know, it could be completely wrong. Let's hope that's not the case. So just to briefly recap the interviews, So I think this is especially kind of important as well. Um, we've talked very briefly about the interview in the process in more general terms, but just to go over it effectively. Once you've kind of logged in, you'll have 15 minutes of preparation time and that preparation time before your interview gives you time to prepare for both the academic station, which will be talking about today and also the clinical station, which will be covering more on tomorrow. Um, then there's a time gap and that varies massively between people going through the interviews. Um, so myself. I had I did my preparation and I had about 2.5 hour wait until my interview. And I also know people, um, who basically did the preparation, and then they were immediately invited to interview. So that's the thing that is important to be aware of so that you're thinking about what you're gonna and I don't mean just interviewing logistically and what you're going to do that day, making sure that you've like Bintulu, you've got a you know, you've got a hot drink nearby, and so that if you did have to wait half an hour or 40 minutes, that you'd be kind of comfortable and able to do that before going into your interview. And then you have, in my experience, I think Alison as well. You have a first station where you're asked questions, potentially personal questions around motivations for applying for specialized, like a specialized foundation programs. Um, and that also includes a kind of critical appraisal section. And that's 10 minutes long. And then there is, like a 32nd to 1 minute gap, and then you kind of jump into the clinical station. The panel who you will be interviewing for, um, will generally be basically one person who is going to lead the academic station. One person will lead the one person who leads the clinical station and the one additional observer. Um, I can see someone's message say that I might might speakers crackly. I think, actually, if this happens every time, it's probably because I'm hosting the slides and it's recording my slides and I'm talking. I suspect, let me put my headphones and maybe that will improve things. Um, cool while you put your headphones And I just you know, I wanted to emphasize again what Dan said with the time gap, Just be prepared for a very long wait. And don't be too stressed out because, like, it got me very flustered because I mean, we went, You go in and you have the preparation time where you read both the clinical and the academic articles, so they'll both be on your screen. And I think this year you'll still have all the interviews virtually run for us. It was an M s teams, so you'll have your video and Maikon and you can read make as many notes as you want on a four piece of paper. Um, personally, I split my piece of paper up into half so half academic and then half clinical, and we'll kind of teach you or suggest ways that you thought about structuring our clinical and academic sections and, yes, personally for me. After I did the 15 minutes prep time, I was told that I was going to my interview straight away. I mean, I was first person on the list. Um, I was first person on the list to do the interview. Um, but still, somehow I had to wait, like, one hour for everything. And then there was, like, so many tech problems, but hopefully they will have sorted it for you guys this year. Um, but yeah, I just realized that Dan's slides and Dan has also gone. So let me see if I can. I think his internet is not great. So let me see if I can do anything. Sorry about the technical issues, guys. Well, his back, Um I can try and put the slides up, if that's any good, Just give me one second, guys.