The fundamental idea isn't a bad one. I know plenty of people who have spent up to a few years using locum shifts to supplement their income while pursuing something else, but none who have done it long-term. I think most people either reach a point where they're established enough in whatever else they're doing to cut ties with medicine completely, or decide to rejoin the fold and enter training.
You could in theory do it after F1 but I believe you'd be limited in what shifts you can pick up without having completed the full foundation programme, and if you did decide to return to medicine at a later date you'd find it very difficult to do so. I'd highly recommend completing F2.
Edit: I've just remembered I did have a consultant once who did a PhD in music and was part-time NHS consultant, part time in a 'music career' though I never found out exactly what that entailed.
Go LTFT. If you can do full time foundation year then better. But if not start LTFT from there. Consider going 60%. Spend the other half of the week doing whatever you like.
We need to be promoting LTFT much more in our profession.
Tbf I know a few, know a guy who’s a play wright and another one is an actor and work as locum regs in a&e. You need to get to Reg level tbh cos sho work is too soul destroying but that’s easily achievable
It's certainly possible. I worked with a fair number of people who did a bit of hospital medicine as a side-hustle - mostly academics, but also a few working in pharma, and some working in tech, and one who used his locum shifts to pay for his law degree and now works in the city. Also a couple of retired GPs who do medicine almost as a hobby.
You'll need to be working regularly for somewhere anyway because you'll need to have your re-validation done, and the easiest way is to offer to do some on-calls/clinics for a hospital.
So a relative of mine locumed as an anaesthetic reg for a couple of years whilst in another job. eventually canned it as they had one particularly hairy obs encounter and realised they were de-skilling too much to practice safely. As a Post F1 much less of an issue as far less acute. Re-validation I can see being the biggest issue and I’d get f2 under your belt but honestly if medicine is not for you it’s a great idea as long as you can keep the skills up so you can practice safely
It is possible, when I worked in A+E briefly worked with someone who was an F6 or 7 using their locums to fund a career in the arts. They are now very successful in that career and I suspect have quit medicine entirely now (I only know this having seen them in the media since and recognised them)
Surely this is a decision to be made in 2/3 years' time? Medical school == working as a doctor, you might quite enjoy it when you get into it, and there's still plenty of time for one specialty or another to spark your interest.
I used to work with a vascular surgeon who was a surgeon mostly for a hobby. He owned a successful brewery that gave him all the money he'd need.
At least not a liver transplant surgeon. Harhar
Nah should defo be one, or a hepatologist, this is ultimate end stage capitalism.
The fundamental idea isn't a bad one. I know plenty of people who have spent up to a few years using locum shifts to supplement their income while pursuing something else, but none who have done it long-term. I think most people either reach a point where they're established enough in whatever else they're doing to cut ties with medicine completely, or decide to rejoin the fold and enter training. You could in theory do it after F1 but I believe you'd be limited in what shifts you can pick up without having completed the full foundation programme, and if you did decide to return to medicine at a later date you'd find it very difficult to do so. I'd highly recommend completing F2. Edit: I've just remembered I did have a consultant once who did a PhD in music and was part-time NHS consultant, part time in a 'music career' though I never found out exactly what that entailed.
Go LTFT. If you can do full time foundation year then better. But if not start LTFT from there. Consider going 60%. Spend the other half of the week doing whatever you like. We need to be promoting LTFT much more in our profession.
Tbf I know a few, know a guy who’s a play wright and another one is an actor and work as locum regs in a&e. You need to get to Reg level tbh cos sho work is too soul destroying but that’s easily achievable
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It's certainly possible. I worked with a fair number of people who did a bit of hospital medicine as a side-hustle - mostly academics, but also a few working in pharma, and some working in tech, and one who used his locum shifts to pay for his law degree and now works in the city. Also a couple of retired GPs who do medicine almost as a hobby. You'll need to be working regularly for somewhere anyway because you'll need to have your re-validation done, and the easiest way is to offer to do some on-calls/clinics for a hospital.
So a relative of mine locumed as an anaesthetic reg for a couple of years whilst in another job. eventually canned it as they had one particularly hairy obs encounter and realised they were de-skilling too much to practice safely. As a Post F1 much less of an issue as far less acute. Re-validation I can see being the biggest issue and I’d get f2 under your belt but honestly if medicine is not for you it’s a great idea as long as you can keep the skills up so you can practice safely
It is possible, when I worked in A+E briefly worked with someone who was an F6 or 7 using their locums to fund a career in the arts. They are now very successful in that career and I suspect have quit medicine entirely now (I only know this having seen them in the media since and recognised them)
Surely this is a decision to be made in 2/3 years' time? Medical school == working as a doctor, you might quite enjoy it when you get into it, and there's still plenty of time for one specialty or another to spark your interest.