>>11815180You're only a 2nd year mate, I doubt you have even seen much surgery let alone had enough experience to want to do it for life. All the mongs in 1st and 2nd year want to be surgeons then realise they are brainlets and burnout. If you really wanna be a surgeon in UK:
Look up the CT1 self scoring potfolio document for core surgery and go from there.
1. Join the surgical society at your uni and work your way up from conference rep or year rep shitty posts to core commitee (President,Treasurer, Secretary). This is how you get to arrange teaching sessions which give good points on self scoring. Ask the speakers after the talks that are put on about projects.
2.Make sure you intercalate and try and go for a research based degree that you can get projects from like an MRes.
3. Go to a surgical conference if you can afford it. Talk to surgeons there and mention that you are interested and would do work for them. These can somethimes count as courses but only last 5 years so book them early for 4th/5th year.
4. Straight up ask consultants that you like about projects (audits, pubs)
5. Young surgeons gunnning for decent ST3 or consultant posts will have projects you can get involoved in.
6. Submit a pitch to student BMJ for an article every week, you will eventually get one. Make it fluffy mental health tips shit.
7. Arrange any student selected placements and your elective in surgery.
8. Go on surgical skills course ran by the royal colleges.
9. Project Cutting Edge is a good youtube channel and website ran by a guy who was a massive gunner for surgery.
10. Start a elogbook to track everything you see in theatre, even as a student.
You have to be a bitch and do the grunt work to get your name on shit as you are just a student. No one will publish you without a consultant or regs name next to yours. You don't need to get published in the surgical field for it to count.
After all that realise that surgery is shit in the NHS and gun for anaesthetics like me.
