I work as a doctor in the UK and decided to make this site due to a huge asymmetry of information when selecting medical jobs in the UK. In the UK postgraduate medical training is long (10+ years is standard). During this time recruitment is generally done nationally. Everyone does the same interview (for their given programme, e.g cardiology) +/- exam and is given a score. This score is used to rank applicants from 1 to N, and applicants in turn rank jobs from 1 to N. The highest ranked applicant gets their first choice job, the second highest ranked applicant gets their first choice (unless it’s the same as the top ranking candidate, in this case they get their second ranked job). This cascades down until all the jobs are filled. As this is a national process people often end up in jobs far from where they know. Unfortunately only the bare minimal information is given for each job, often just the name of the hospital and even this can be subject to change (they can move you to another hospital in the same rough area with minimal notice). Doctors are also very much temporary workers at a given hospital and are treated as such. It’s normal to only be at a hospital for 6-12 months. This makes doctors prone to poor conditions and harder to raise concerns. This along with a asymmetric power dynamic (if you raise a fuss in a small speciality the consultants in that specialty may make it harder for you to find a job once you complete training) can perpetuate a bullying culture and general poor work conditions for junior doctors. As such I created this website for doctors to write anonymous reviews for their posts.
It’s a bit janky in places and the jobs feature is broken while I update it. Regardless it’s now widely used and is hopefully helping people who are now going through the same struggles I did (my training is now complete).
I work as a doctor in the UK and decided to make this site due to a huge asymmetry of information when selecting medical jobs in the UK. In the UK postgraduate medical training is long (10+ years is standard). During this time recruitment is generally done nationally. Everyone does the same interview (for their given programme, e.g cardiology) +/- exam and is given a score. This score is used to rank applicants from 1 to N, and applicants in turn rank jobs from 1 to N. The highest ranked applicant gets their first choice job, the second highest ranked applicant gets their first choice (unless it’s the same as the top ranking candidate, in this case they get their second ranked job). This cascades down until all the jobs are filled. As this is a national process people often end up in jobs far from where they know. Unfortunately only the bare minimal information is given for each job, often just the name of the hospital and even this can be subject to change (they can move you to another hospital in the same rough area with minimal notice). Doctors are also very much temporary workers at a given hospital and are treated as such. It’s normal to only be at a hospital for 6-12 months. This makes doctors prone to poor conditions and harder to raise concerns. This along with a asymmetric power dynamic (if you raise a fuss in a small speciality the consultants in that specialty may make it harder for you to find a job once you complete training) can perpetuate a bullying culture and general poor work conditions for junior doctors. As such I created this website for doctors to write anonymous reviews for their posts.
It’s a bit janky in places and the jobs feature is broken while I update it. Regardless it’s now widely used and is hopefully helping people who are now going through the same struggles I did (my training is now complete).