We are treated like a bunch of idiots

Just finished sitting an exam at a Pearson Vue centre

I’m just livid at the treatment we receive as doctors in general

Having to sit serious career defining exams in the same room as someone sitting their driving test or crane theory tests - every 5-10 minutes sighing and reading their answers out loud and even the noise cancelling headphones don’t do anything. Sorry mate I don’t care whether you can fit 1 or 5 brick crates on your crane. Yes I know I sound privileged. I don’t care. Everyone in their respective career should be looked after by their examining body. For all I know the crane guy was probably frustrated at me for my heavy breathing.

Second of all, the horrible PC quality. The poor images. Having to squint to see an xrsy or ECG. Is it a pneumothorax associated with a fracture? Or isolated fracture of the ribs? FUCK KNOWS RCEM, fuck knows. I can’t see it

Is it u waves on the ECG? Or am I just fucking seeing things at this point? I don’t know

Then you decide I’ll take a break and go to the toilet and are met with watered down handwash with no working hot tap ..

Anyways, rant over.

I’d rather go back to sitting the exams in a hall with printed out paper. Give me a xray film even and I’ll take it

EDIT: 99.99% seem to understand that I’m just frustrated and ranting after a stressful exam. To the few that think I’m being horrible - yes, I still think as doctors we need our own private exam centres. Yes, I am equally frustrated at the woman who sat some sort of accounting exam and was going at it with her calculator as I am to the crane exam sitter