Megan Pode

Applying for an F3 job or junior clinical fellow post can feel overwhelming. This guide shares practical advice on F3 applications, NHS clinical fellow jobs, and specialty interview preparation, including how to strengthen your CV with audits, QI projects, teaching experience, and leadership roles. Drawing on real interview experience across emergency medicine, surgery, palliative care, and teaching fellow roles, it offers structured tips for applications, interviews, and maximising success!

By Dr Megan Pode - Founder This month marks 5 years since we started Medics&Me as enthusiastic third year medical students in my draughty uni house. As we have studied through clinical years of placement, prepared for finals, graduated, moved, become doctors and emerged out the other side of the foundation years, it has been there beside us. The charity is growing and developing in ways we could never have imagined back on Zoom, during COVID in November 2020. I wanted to take a moment to...

Balancing medical school and a chronic illness like type 1 diabetes can be overwhelming. In this post, a medical student shares real-life tips for managing health, studies, and clinical placements. From staying organised to advocating for support, this guide offers practical advice and honest insight for anyone navigating medical training with a long-term condition.