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2 years ago today, I couldn’t walk.
Today I walked across the stage at St Paul’s Cathedral to collect my medical degree with honours.
Grateful to the village it took to get me here to Dr Catherine Dominic🫶
Here’s to the next chapter!
Catherine Dominic retweeted
It’s MS Awareness Week 2026! 📢🥳🧡
We’re launching our campaign, #MSThinkAgain. We want people to understand more about MS. And to challenge misconceptions.
We asked the MS Community to share the assumptions others make about them.
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Catherine Dominic retweeted
On World Chagas Disease Day, Unitaid highlights the importance of screening for Chagas disease. Too often, people are diagnosed late or not at all, limiting access to timely care and increasing the risk of complications.
Learn more: unitaid.org/uploads/Unitaid-…
Life really comes full circle - I sat my PACES exam on 28.03, after a tumultuous year of 3 hospital admissions and everything that could go wrong going wrong.
Only to be sat in the same Neuro infusion department when finding out I’ve passed PACES with near full marks!
MRCP ✅
Catherine Dominic retweeted
Again, public needs to understand this. These training places are how you get the specialists that patients require for clinics, operations and cancer care. They should not be anything to do with a scrap between unions and politicians - they're necessary.
The UK health secretary, Wes Streeting, has vowed to withdraw promised extra specialty training places unless resident doctors call off their next strike
bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s608…
Catherine Dominic retweeted
The Medical Training (Prioritisation) Act has officially become law.
This is a first step in tackling the jobs crisis for doctors, something we’ve long campaigned for. And after extensive BMA lobbying, we understand that the Government will be commencing the Act tomorrow.
We recognise the impact the Act will have on non-prioritised doctors already working in the UK. We’ll continue to push for longer term contracts and proper protection for them.
Find out more 👉 bma.org.uk/advice-and-suppor…
Catherine Dominic retweeted
✅ The Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill has received Royal Assent.
🇬🇧 An essential step towards ending the fierce competition that's stifled UK medical talent.
Supporting a sustainable NHS workforce that meets the health needs of patients.
More: england.nhs.uk/long-read/med…
Catherine Dominic retweeted
On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we empower women to take on leadership roles in the field of infection, creating strong role models to inspire the next generation. Read about our leaders and how ESCMID supports them: escmid.org/about-us/the-soci…
#WomenInScience
Pleased to share this paper written by our team @ukchagashub in @PLOSNTDs which sheds light on clinical phenotypes, reactivation patterns & outcomes in this high-risk group — crucial for improving care & outcomes
journals.plos.org/plosntds/a…
#HIV #Chagas #GlobalHealth #NTDs
Catherine Dominic retweeted
There is now no living person using an iron lung
That's because vaccines work
Had the pleasure of presenting posters @FISConf (PCP) and @BTSrespiratory (Pseudomonas) in the past week
+ our new Chagas screening paper from @ukchagashub now published @BMJPublicHealth.
Grateful to brilliant collaborators. 🙏
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4118…
#IDTwitter
Catherine Dominic retweeted
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Most people don’t realize how unusual the UK’s doctor-training model is until they compare it internationally.
France, Germany, Australia, the Netherlands — all move doctors to independent practice years faster.
The UK isn’t the norm. It’s the outlier.
Catherine Dominic retweeted
Most people have no idea how bad the UK doctor training system really is.
It demands double the training time of other countries, pays doctors less at every stage, and then often keeps them “junior” even after they finish all their training.
Look at the numbers.
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Additionally, which I thought was obvious but clearly isn't, DON'T USE CHATGPT TO WRITE YOUR WHOLE WSQ 😥
NIHR ACF Oriel/WSQ deadline is <1 week away; general advice:
1️⃣ Read the question twice – answer what’s asked, not what you want to say.
2️⃣ Structure = clarity: STAR or CAMP.
3️⃣ Quantify outcomes.
4️⃣ Show reflection & future direction.
5️⃣ Link everything to academic potential.
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NIHR ACF Oriel/WSQ deadline is <1 week away; general advice:
1️⃣ Read the question twice – answer what’s asked, not what you want to say.
2️⃣ Structure = clarity: STAR or CAMP.
3️⃣ Quantify outcomes.
4️⃣ Show reflection & future direction.
5️⃣ Link everything to academic potential.
Catherine Dominic retweeted
Know who to approach, take initiative, and don’t be afraid to speak up...
Read all the advice from doctors on starting F1 👇
@bmj_latest @nikkixnabavi @medic_cd
bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r140…
Catherine Dominic retweeted
Despite years of studying and training resident doctors are facing an unemployment crisis.
This year, more than 30,000 doctors applied for just 10,000 specialty training places.
Fixing the specialty training crisis is crucial – for doctors and patients bma.org.uk/news-and-opinion/…
Catherine Dominic retweeted
Most resident doctors who are due to finish foundation training don’t have a job to go next month, a survey shows.
The results of the survey, run by the BMA, found that 52% of doctors leaving foundation training had no employment lined up
bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r159…
Catherine Dominic retweeted
As new medical grads get ready to start F1, doctors share their advice on how to prepare for the first day of foundation training...
@bmj_latest @medic_cd @nikkixnabavi
bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r140…
Catherine Dominic retweeted
We still did a damn sight better than both yourself and your party though, didn’t we?
"Especially at a time when we're making so much progress on the NHS and its future, let's work together."
@WesStreeting responds to the BMA Resident Doctors' industrial action ballot result 👇