takeAIM Blog

For FYs and IMTs planning specialty training applications, data is both a blessing and a curse. Physician Specialty Recruitment publishes competition ratios on their website, and these numbers attract a lot of attention on social media. This year’s numbers – once again – generated a lot of anxiety for a lot of people. This is…

Last week was Celebrating Acute Medicine Week – I’ve included some highlights from xformerlyknownastwitter below. Next week, the takeAIM team are off to Brighton for the bi-annual Society for Acute Medicine conference. Excited to catch up with colleagues from across the UK and hopefully convince a few more interested resident doctors to pursue a career…

Next week is Celebrating Acute Medicine Week, which some of you may remember from previous years was called Acute Medicine Awareness Week. From 23rd September, we’re using the hashtag #CAMW2024 to celebrate the specialty and all the great work being done across the UK. This year the theme is sustainability, and we’re particularly keen to…

This week’s blog is all about POCUS. Since I started scanning seriously about a year ago, point-of-care ultrasound has become something of an obsession. When it comes to patients with undifferentiated shock or respiratory failure – or those with difficult IV access – it’s just such a useful skill for an acute medic to have. That…

For medical students, postgraduate training can seem horrendously long and complicated, a maze of hoops, hurdles and hidden traps that would be enough to put off even the most enthusiastic of aspiring physicians. I remember how daunting the road ahead looked on my first day of FY1, but I’ve been lucky – I’ve loved almost…

It’s that time of year again. For most people, August is a quiet month – a restful summer break without urgency, stress or systemic upheaval. But not for us. August means a new influx of junior doctors, many of whom will be finding their feet for the very first time on the Acute Medical Unit.…

*taps mic* Is this thing on? My name’s Zack and I’m one of the new takeAIM fellows this year. This is the first of what I hope will be many blogs about life on the Acute Medical Unit (AMU).  I’m hoping they’ll give those of you interested in a career in Acute Medicine an insight…