Hoping to apply for the an internal medicine HST (Neuro) next year and am looking at ways to boost my CV/application.
For the Medical Education & Qualifications section, (10 points) would a Profession Diploma in Healthcare Leadership count towards extra points?
Thanks in advance!
I genuinely hope this strike goes ahead. If it gets cancelled again because of some rubbish deal, then maybe it’s time for all of us to leave the IMO en masse. Let’s see how they’re going to fund themselves when the membership starts walking out.
They already stood down a strike that had been voted for by members not too long ago. If they do it again, what exactly are members supposed to think?
And it’s not just the strikes. Look at study leave. The contract supposedly guarantees it if you apply at least six weeks in advance, but it’s still ultimately subject to “service needs” — a deliberately loose and vague clause that teams can use to deny study leave whenever they
want. How is that a meaningful guarantee?
And IMO deserves criticism for this. If they negotiated and accepted a contract with such a weak, open-ended clause, then they helped create the problem.
The same thing happens with pay issues across different hospitals: problems drag on and on, people wait to get paid, and eventually it gets sorted. This happens so often that you’d think there would be a proper system to deal with it by now.
These are not exactly obscure or unforeseeable problems. They keep happening but our union is still so inept at dealing with them.