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My Medical Career, Kelmscott Crescent, Leeds (2026)

08/02/2026

When choosing the post graduate exams especially the foreign exams please do the ones which align with your clinical experience . You will not get a job solely based on your qualification.Its the clinical experience augmented by your knowledge demonstration through qualifications that land you a job.
The exams are for registration and knowledge (plus a bit of skills ) demonstration and clinical experience is to demonstrate your competency and ability to apply the knowledge and practically using the skills .
For example ,with all the experience of working as a surgeon and then doing MRCP ( medicine ) rather than MRCS will be a bad exam choice and vice versa.

06/02/2026

4000+ doctors left Pakistan in 2025.
My perspective is that it’s extremely good for the medical community ,their families and country economy .
For me it’s a positive news .This means that all the hard work of guidance and supporting the doctors to make good career abroad is working.
When some people say it’s brain drain…well if we look at the market back home ,still thousands of doctors are jobless .Still there are many with complete FCPS and MD/MS who are struggling to find good job and has not hav established clinical practice . There are so many non-trainee doctors who are working at low wages because abundant of doctors are available.
So if you see the market dynamics it’s generating revenue and prosperity to the ones who are gone and adding value to the ones who are staying resulting in win-win for everyone .

19/01/2026

Favorite part of my medical career is to give talks and teach medicine to the fellow clinicians, residents, nurses and medical students.
Something where I put my heart and brain 🧠 to get the best out of a topic.
What helps most is the strong imagination to be a naive audience who knows nothing.
So in real time I act as teacher and in imigination I take the role of a student and read the same lines as a student to see if I can understand them easily. Thats how I am able to make a strong presentation which makes a difference whether teaching basics or discussing phase 3 advanced trial .
You may follow same theme when you prepare a talk and hopefully your audience will like it.

19/01/2026

When you are looking for the options abroad ,first step is to get the license to practice in that country ,then you see the job situation and demand for the foreign workers ,then you consider visa situation of that part of the world against your passport and finally you look for the residency options .
Thats how you should plan your career in the year 2026.
During Covid years 2019/2021 the demand for the foreign doctors was very high so the rules were very much flexible.
Now the governments have changed the focus to local graduates and hence reliance on foreign labor is decreasing which means you have to choose your options wisely.
Always focus on the bird in hand (local training/practice) as well when you are preparing for the two in the bushes (abroad).
Not to discourage you but to prepare you for the bigger struggle .
Personal thoughts !!!

31/12/2025

2025 was a year where I reduced my Facebook and social media usage a lot and there was a reason why.
I was working to learn something to make an alternative career path slowly. Hence was spending hours and hours on the project .
Now with a full time job and family commitments where the extra time comes ?It’s always by reducing mobile,TV and socializing. Whenever I have to work on anything like developing any new course or write a book I simply cut off these and get atleast 1-2 hours a day which I can give to that project .
Just check your mobile screen time daily or weekly (most of the smart phones have this feature ) and you will realize how many hours you are spending on social media which can be easily used for anything you want to work upon.
Remember people out there are doing a number of projects at the same on top of their usual career thing and that’s how they groom and progress in life .
Just give time with patience with a plan to work upon that for many months to years and it will click. Remember resilience and persistence is the key alongwith hardwork and good intention.
Just a writing on the morning of the last day of 2026.
(Picture : Back of my house )

17/10/2025

Today I was invited at as a speaker to share my work on the SAS Career development which I am doing in collaboration with NHS England.
Appreciated by more than 100 delegates from different cities who liked the impact project Alhamdulillah .
I be very happy to do anything similar for the training institutes and universities in Pakistan 🇵🇰.

16/10/2025

“Canadian new rule for doctors
The new rule — announced Oct. 8 — means international medical graduates are now required in Ontario to have completed at least two years of high school in Ontario to be considered for the first round of matching. This will seriously impact already struggling healthcare system and it also does not make any sense. I am afraid that other provinces will soon follow as well.”

This is the trend all countries are following to prioritize their own graduate.

15/10/2025

Something that the digitization of the records can sort very quickly. ‏

میں نے یونیورسٹی سے ڈگری کی۔ پھر پیسے جمع کر کے ڈگری لی اور ڈگری پر کنٹرولر اور وائس چانسلر نے دستخط بھی کیئے۔اس کے بعد میں نے دوبارہ پیسے جمع کر کے ڈگری ان کو واپس بھیجی کہ اب یہ ویریفائی کر لو کہ آپ لوگوں نے مجھے جو ڈگری دی ہے وہ فیک تو نہیں ہے۔ بات یہاں پہ ختم نہیں ہوئی۔ اس کے بعد وہی ڈگری HEC کو بھیجی کہ آپ کے ساتھ جو یونیورسٹی Affiliated ہے اس نے یہ ڈگری جاری کی ہے اور ویریفائی بھی کی ہے۔ اب آپ بھی ویریفائی کر لے کہ کہیں یہ ڈگری جعلی تو نہیں۔ آگے کی بات سنئے۔ پھر HEC کے بعد میں نے وہ ڈگری MOFA کو بھیجی اور ان سے کہا کہ یہ جو HEC نے سٹیمپ لگایا ہے اس کو چیک کرے کہ کہیں یہ فیک تو نہیں ہے۔اس پورے کام میں آپ کے ہزاروں روپے الگ سے ضائع ہو جاتے ہیں، ساتھ میں وقت بھی ضائع ہوتا ہے، اور سب سے اہم بات وہ نمونے جو خود میٹرک فیل ہوتے ہیں ان کی باتیں بھی سننے کو ملتی ہے۔ یہ ایک بھیانک قسم کا مذاق ہے ہمارے ساتھ اور اس پہ کوئی بولتا بھی نہیں ہے۔

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15/10/2025

It was a pleasure to share my experience and case study on treatment paradigm for breast cancer with brain metastasis last night .
Always a fun to present data and answer the tricky questions.

11/10/2025

Today we successfully delivered the SAS Career progression workshop at University of Hull as regional impact project of NHSE Alhamdulillah.I designed this workshop especially for the IMG colleagues based on survey findings which was done last year to quantify their needs .Thanks a lot to Saira Sayeed (IMG Tutor ) for an amazing session on navigating challenging situations and Sunil Upadhyay for sharing his wisdom .In addition a powerful presentation by Andy Bolton (Associate Dean for SAS) on NHS structure . NHSE has already promised to sponsor this workshop twice a year in future InshAllah.

06/10/2025

When you start doing anything then immerse in it and be in that particular mode all the time.
Use your conscious at allocated time and subconscious all the time towards the same activity .Let me give you a current example.
I have designed a workshop for NHSE England for the career progression of the SAS doctors .I am now working on the presentation I am giving this Friday so I will now be in that presentation making mode till that activity.
Whatever I am doing ,at the background my brain 🧠 is thinking on different aspects of it .From there the ideas come and refine.
I don’t switch off myself and don’t disconnect from that activity and hence use my subconscious while doing routine job things even while writing this blog etc.
This maintains the flow of the mind and results into best possible version of a project.
Similarly when I prepare for any exam I just go into exam mode for some weeks/months which means that in my subconscious different topics are circulating.This generates lot of focus and speed.Just make sure this should not result you being absent minded for the routine things. Your conscious should be working normally it’s the subconscious thinking the primary activity all the time .

05/10/2025

This weekend read :
Chapter 6 of the career counseling book is for all the females out there who want to become a surgeon. Written by Dr. Sidra Javed a consultant surgeon currently living in Ireland 🇮🇪.

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