🥇 UK Doctor in Australia 🇦🇺 | 3 Days in My Life, Salary & Work-Life Balance

Looking at you, I'm trying to get your attention Can I come close? I don't know how to play this Our hands touch once or twice, feeling kind of hypnotized I'm looking at you and I feel the tension You know, this could be like heaven I am right here, doing my best to make you feel like I do And just for a second, you're looking at me, making me feel like you Welcome back to the channel. My name's Bex. I'm currently working in Australia. I'm a UK trained doctor. I worked in the NHS for 12 months and now I'm completing my F2 or PGY2 year here in Australia. I haven't kind of shown you what life is like working during the week and going to the gym and just what life is like and what my normal routine is like as a medical doctor So on Tuesday, I did 12 until 8.30 Wednesday, I did 2 o'clock until 10.30 Today, 3.30 until midnight Tomorrow, 3.30 until 10 And then on Saturday, all of the days roll into one If you're watching this and you do night shifts or evening shifts, you'll know what I mean So Saturday, 3.30 until midnight and then I have Sunday off and then I go back for 2 days 2 days off and then I'm back in 8 days straight I like the fact that I get mornings off, I get to go to the gym, have coffee just have a little bit of time outdoors, walking Scott is not around at the moment He's just coming back from Brisbane and he's going to pick me up and take me to the hospital and we're going to get a coffee on the way but I just wanted to show you what life is like because although my routine is quite similar to in the UK I have a lot more time off during the week even during the working week to do fun activities or even just to go out for a coffee something that I would never do if I was working in the NHS because it was just too busy and I was a lot more stressed a lot of the time So UK doctors can come and work in Australia via the competent authority pathway You only need to have done 1 year in the NHS as an F1 and then you can come over for your F2 year on a provisional licence with APRA APRA is the equivalent of the GMC here in Australia So today is Friday, it's 9.20pm I finished work last night at midnight I thought I was going to finish a little bit earlier but it was very very very busy I was in the children's emergency department for about 4, 4.5 hours So typically what happens is the kids will be seen by the ED doctors and then they'll call the paediatric doctors to say can you come and review, query admission or perhaps we just need some advice and then I will go with the registrar and then we'll see the patients, make a plan and then admit them onto the ward most of the time So as a resident you spend a lot of time in ED during the late shifts but it's actually really helpful because you get to see how the registrars take the history, examine Today I only work until 10 but I'll keep you updated I can show you what you do as a PGY2 working on a paediatric rotation in Australia The day shifts are a little bit different to the evening shifts the duties are different but I can talk you through what I do today and if you're planning to come over here to work as a doctor It's 5-3pm, we're just on the way to the hospital but we've just made a stop off and Scott has just gotten out of the car to get some takeaway coffees from Falafels which is in Mermaid Waters They have the best coffee on the Gold Coast and this is where we came for dinner I showed you the food on my previous vlog we just had chicken burgers but here is Scott with the coffee and they always put a little treat on top Oh my god Hold it, hold it, don't drop it I'm so close Did you know? It's like a hydromanic disco kid Salaries are typically higher than in the UK As a PGY2 in Australia your basic salary in Queensland is approximately $106,000 per year and then the hospital will pay you more for Sundays, Saturdays, public holidays, evenings overtime, night shifts So in total you can expect to earn around $150,000 in your second year over here I'm just trying to get my final thousand steps in I'm on my dinner break, it's 7 o'clock Touch wood, it's quite a chill shift this evening Scott and I have decided to go to the Paddock on Sunday for breakfast It's actually where we had our first date They have some amazing food so stay tuned for that but I will see you in a few hours That's too much food there Nice It's good right now, I like it Yeah, that's good Okay One thing that I really like about working in Australia I just appreciate the shorter days so much So in the UK, typically on a weekend medical on-call you would do 12 and a half hours, 13 and a half hour shifts and that was just the standard and you'd do that for three days in a row have a day off and then go back to a normal working day The longest shifts that I've done so far have been in ED and those shifts were 10 hours I just feel so grateful today just grateful for being in Australia grateful for being alive I know that sounds like, of course you're alive but it's something that I don't actually take for granted and not to sound morbid but we never know when our time is up right so I'm grateful to be here grateful to have the opportunity to experience life with a partner grateful that I'm getting married grateful that I'm engaged grateful to have this job in Australia on the Gold Coast grateful for the weather I just feel very, very happy today So over here I work as a rotational junior house officer and I spend between five and ten weeks working with each different speciality which is very different to the UK because we typically spend four months in each block I've just finished work over the last few weeks and few months I've been looking at this place called the QT not the hotel itself but the QT cabins and they're all over Instagram they're all over YouTube and they're right in the centre of Surfers Paradise and it just looks like such a cool experience to have and I've been saying to Scott we should go and stay there and when I was looking at the prices today they were offering a huge discount I think it was 22% off plus 10% if you booked via the app and you could also take out an EVT membership and get a further discount so anyway we ended up booking a room or booking a cabin for tomorrow and I wanted to film the experience to share it with you to show you what you can get up to on days off on the Gold Coast so stay tuned for now I'm going to just get myself sorted Scott is out this evening so I've decided to just give the apartment a bit of a clean pack our bags and then tomorrow we'll go to the gym in the morning and then I've booked myself in for a deep tissue massage at 1 o'clock and then we're going to head out to the QT for 3 o'clock and then we check out the next day at 11 but when I was reading the features and what's included they serve an aperitif like a spritz drink at 4.30 with some snacks and then they give you like robes and there's a fire pit outside anyway I won't talk about it I'll just film it and show you there's something else we need to find