ABSTRACT

You may remember in the early years of your training looking up to senior registrars who had become Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons, feeling that you had a long way to go before you had the knowledge and experience to join them. As you progress through training and the end of ST6 draws near, it's not unheard of to start developing imposter syndrome. Are you truly ready for this hurdle? Or have you somehow slipped under the radar because everyone has assumed that you were doing fine? Is everything about to suddenly hit the fan with an ignominious revelation that you eternally follow patients up in clinic and can only just about do a tracheostomy?