Welcome to our "Prepare for FY1" course

Thank you for booking to attend our course!

  • Timetable & Venue details: See below – this will be kept up to date if any changes so please check before you leave!
  • Dress Code: Dress smartly as though it is your first day of FY1. No scrubs please. 
  • Equipment: Bring a pen, water bottle & stethoscope

You’ll be allocated to small groups. The leads of your first group will explain the course & be your mentors for the day. There will be 6 stations covering core aspects of FY1 (e.g. documentation, prioritising jobs whilst on call, managing unwell patients, communicating with families) with lunch halfway between. We strongly recommend you read the course materials in advance to allow you to focus on applying content rather than learning theory! At the end of the day, you’ll meet your mentors again to discuss through any further questions and get final top tips.

This event has been cancelled. 

Course Materials

Discussing Treatment Escalation & DNAR
Discussing Treatment Escalation & DNAR
As an FY1 you should not be expected to make decisions regarding treatment escalation...
FY1
Preparing for FY1
It is common for FY1s to feel anxious & feel like they’re not ready to...
Pre & Post Operative Care
Pre & Post Operative Care
As a junior doctor, you will frequently look after patients prior to and after their...
Mental Capacity
Mental Capacity
Mental Capacity is the ability to make your own decisions at the time at which the...
Palliative
Palliative Care
Dying is a natural process and unfortunately, something that we all come across in...
Falls
Falls
As an F1, you will quite frequently get bleeped to review a patient who has had a...
Delirium
Delirium
Acute confusion, otherwise known as delirium, is very common in hospitals: 20-30%...
Handover
Handover
Handover occurs between shifts to ensure everyone is up to speed with patients. The...
Upper GI bleed
Upper GI bleed
These patients have the potential to become haemodynamically unstable extremely quickly;...
Cannula
Cannulation
Cannulation is a procedure regularly undertaken which involves threading a plastic...
Performing Arterial Blood Gases
Performing Arterial Blood Gases (ABGs)
Thanks to Geeky Medics for an excellent video demonstration EquipmentGloves Alcohol...
IV fluids
Prescribing IV Fluids
There are certain situations where you need to prescribe IV fluids which vary from...
Ward Round
Surviving Ward Rounds
It takes time to get used to the ward round. Particularly, when patients are being...
Self-Discharge
Self-discharge
Frequently patients wish to self-discharge from hospitals. This article pertains...
ePortfolio
e-Portfolio
Your e-Portfolio is an online tool to gather and store evidence of progression throughout...
Scans
Requesting Scans
Requesting scans can be a scary daily occurrence for new doctors. It is one of few...
Maximise Points for Specialty Applications
Maximise Points for Specialty Applications
With the recent removal of additional degrees counting for points towards all specialty...
Insulin
Hyperglycaemia
Hyperglycaemia is something you will encounter frequently. In this article, we focus...
Writing SLEs
Writing SLEs
SLEs are supervised learning events that includeMini-CEX (mini clinical evaluation...
Prescribing analgesia
Prescribing analgesia
When assessing pain, ensure you begin by taking a history to characterise the pain...
Common Prescribing Errors
Common Prescribing Errors
When I supervise and teach FY1s, prescribing is among the top three things they are...
Hypoxia
Hypoxia
As an FY1, you will be called to review patients who are hypoxic. Here we will discuss...
Blood Tests
Venepuncture
EquipmentGloves Hand sanitiser Alcohol wipe Tourniquet Cotton wool/ gauze Needle Syringe...
Prioritising Jobs
Prioritising Jobs
I’m going to try and be as generic as possible so that hopefully these tips work...
Sepsis
Sepsis
Sepsis is an infection with evidence of organ dysfunction. Septic shock is when a...
Hypotension
Hypotension
Expect many bleeps about hypotension from concerned nursing staff. It is a useful...

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