"The hospital jobs were fantastic and well supported under an umbrella of the tiered structure that is followed in secondary care.

General Practice though is much more challenging as although as a GPR there is excellent cover, the variety of patients and the appearance of the unknown is probably the most challenging."

"Patients do trust their GP’s and maintaining that trust and doing the best for both the patient and myself was what I most enjoyed."

"As a practicing GP today, the experience I have gained has laid strong foundations for my career ahead. "

"The GP scheme allows one to move from specialty to specialty. This has the benefit of not only increasing knowledge but also becoming extremely familiar with how the NHS functions"

"The most challenging aspect has been changing from speciality to speciality. It may sound rather obvious within a GP scheme, as this is how we as potential primary care physicians train. The difficulty arises from becoming competent at one speciality and then having to enter another new speciality with minimal knowledge. The reward, (after a few months) is that this confidence then returns within a new speciality. One then can reflect back and realise that ones knowledge is increasing amongst a large breadth of medicine."