maidrinruadh

What does your data say about how memes spread from area to area? E.g., country to country, or, more interestingly, smaller areas like state to state/province to province? What are some unusual factors that drive meme spread?

PS thank you for saving my face in front of my friends so many times you are truly the heroes we needed

My partner is finishing up his medical degree in Australia. We are looking at moving to the UK. He is planning to spend his internship, residency and registrarship in Australia, then qualifying for the UK where he will do his basic physician's training and following training there.

Is this a good plan? Would he be better completing, say, his BPT here and then looking to do his advanced in the UK, or finishing his residency here and then doing his registrarship in the UK? Is the UK wanting/accepting overseas doctors?

Is the UK system terribly different to Australia's? Are there any significant cultural differences in terms of medicine and health that we should know about?

Also - though you may not be able to comment on this - given the strike and the situation (he and I are both completely behind the strike/the doctors' position), is it a wise plan for us to be moving to the UK? Obviously we still have a few years to go at this point, so things could change, but this is worrying both of us.

EDIT: We're planning on starting out in England, but may move to another country depending on his/my job opportunities. IIRC, the NHS functions slightly differently in the different countries? To make it easy, best to assume I'm just talking about England.

EDIT 2: Sorry, I know most of my questions are a bit off topic. I came here with my question about the strike and how it might affect our plans first, but then I realised I had a lot of other questions!

Oh, sorry, I abbreviated basic physician's training.

The Australian system goes internship (1 year, straight after finishing university degree), residency (1 year), registrarship (2 years) and then (for the path my partner is doing; internal), basic physician's training (3-4 years), then advanced training (3-4 years), after which he then tries to become a fellow. (Hopefully I remember that all correctly.)

I will suggest Wales, Scotland and NI to him.

Thank you very much for answering; I know my questions were fairly off topic. Best of luck with the strike - I hope the government changes its mind.