‘I survived. I achieved fellowship. They told me last week.’
Dr Ruyi Yuan is one of the thousands of GP registrars who have emerged the other side in a year like no other
No cohort of registrars has faced more upheaval, more turbulence than the 4250 doctors who were in the GP training program last year.
Here Dr Ruyi Yuan, one of the trainees caught up in the fellowship exam fiasco, tells of a career in lockdown limbo and how she came through.
I started out in radiology training, not general practice. But it wasn’t the right fit for me.
While I loved the camaraderie, it felt strange to spend half an hour with a patient biopsying their malignant-looking pulmonary nodule and then sending them on their way, never knowing the outcome beyond a histopathology report.
