Hi all, appreciate a lot of people go through this and this is posted a lot but would like to hear some thoughts from everyone.
Current FY2, ranked poorly for CST and resigned myself to not getting a job. Managed to receive an offer yesterday through clearing which was quite surprising! However, for a job on the other end of the country - Gen surg for CT1, with CT2 to be decided.
With the competition for CF interviews being so high, I’m torn between staying to try for further CFs or take the CST number. I want to do plastics preferably but would be more than happy with ortho too. I feel I could perform better next year but who’s to say that I would? The hospital I’ll be based in doesn’t have a plastics unit.
Especially with ST3 applications punishing you for time since graduation, would I be better with the chance of doing a CF and reapplying next year for a themed CST programme, or doing CST then CF after that in desired specialty for applications?