I am now deleting all the tweets. You know why and where to find me.

I know I’m harping on about this, but you seriously need to come with me to the cerulean place (I’m being obscure because Elmo is absolutely using the algorithm to stop these tweets getting to your feed). I think I’m going to delete my tweets today if I can figure that out.

What do you want to know?.

Context: I had to do this because the ICM programme mandates 12 months of medicine experience (6 can be ED, I’ve never been closer to quitting my job than working as a cog in the ED nightmare-contraption so that wasn’t happening) and I didn’t do ACCS.

Take an old person if you have one. Be cynical. Why is this room weirdly shaped? Is this room too small to fit a double bed? How many rooms do we have to renovate on day 1 versus over a few years? Take a billion photos. View at different times of day.

Viewings are weird. They last about 10 minutes because you feel pressured. Ask the agent to leave you alone, or if you're a couple split up so one of you can really look round. Go for a second viewing, either before offering, or if you're thinking of increasing.

RT @Hrushworth: There’s an investment London could make that would provide the same capacity as the Elizabeth line for a tenth of the cost.….

For the viva I used Masterpass's books. Book 1 is better than book 2 and they don't contain any anatomy, which I went back to eLFH and just googling stuff from the curriculum for, but they did me fine. I had Graphic Anaesthesia as well but I'm not sure how much it helped me.

Primary Viva/OSCE: Important to note I failed the OSCE first time round, which was partly bad luck but weak spots were mostly equipment and physics. The one book I got later that I realised would have saved me was Mendonca/Balasubramanian's, strong recommendation.

I ended up relearning so much for the next part of the Primary so the more you're able to actually absorb stuff the better, I just don't think that's reasonably practicable for most people. Skim, scrape together a basic understanding, practice the questions, move on.

I also had PasTest which was OK, I think it's helpful to have another question bank of some sort to point out what you don't know. I wish I'd been able to actually learn the curriculum for the MCQ but the weight of all the topics was too much, so tactically this worked for me.

Primary MCQ: Injected eLearning for Health questions into my veins every day, you learn quickly that there are things that need to be rote-learned. So I copied out tables hundreds of times (usually pharmacology ones about drug properties, structures etc) in a jotter.