Sorry if this has been discussed before - so many threads to search! Leah is a practising doctor and 24 years old. Is this actually possible? She would have left university at about 21 and I thought medical qualifications took years to get. Also I don't understand why she's doing what she is, surely if you want to become a doctor it is more of a vocation - anyway I digress - does anyone know how long it actually takes to become a practising doctor?
Doctor Leah
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Originally Posted by marios mum:
“Sorry if this has been discussed before - so many threads to search! Leah is a practising doctor and 24 years old. Is this actually possible? She would have left university at about 21 and I thought medical qualifications took years to get. Also I don't understand why she's doing what she is, surely if you want to become a doctor it is more of a vocation - anyway I digress - does anyone know how long it actually takes to become a practising doctor?”
“Sorry if this has been discussed before - so many threads to search! Leah is a practising doctor and 24 years old. Is this actually possible? She would have left university at about 21 and I thought medical qualifications took years to get. Also I don't understand why she's doing what she is, surely if you want to become a doctor it is more of a vocation - anyway I digress - does anyone know how long it actually takes to become a practising doctor?”
In the UK an absolute minimum of 7 years (if medicine is your first degree, which it must be at her age). Leah claims to have got her undergraduate qualification at East Anglia - 5 years - and medical post grad foundation is 2 years. Any specialisation is additional training. I have seen some claim she is a trained cosmetic surgeon which is simply impossible at her age.
Leah is descried as a 'cosmetic doctor' in this article. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/en...-29232759.html
She's probably not a fully qualified medical doctor.
She's probably not a fully qualified medical doctor.
Yes - a quick google reveals she only graduated in 2011 and so cannot have completed her residency until this Summer at the earliest. It is just about conceiveable that she could get herself fully registered by the time the end of series airs but she was not a fully qualified doctor (ie licenced to practice independently and not under supervision) at the time of filming. Interesting to see if this is fudged if she gets to interview.
In Britain most medical students start at 18. It is not like the US where they do a degree then go to medical school. A five year medical degree takes her to 23 and the pre-registration year to 24.
Whether Leah is fully-qualified depends on what is meant by fully-qualified. She is far too young to be a consultant for instance, or even a GP. But she is a registered medical practitioner, and has been for nearly a year.
If you look her up on the General Medical Council website (the GMC maintains the medical register) you will see she graduated MB BS from the University of East Anglia in 2011 and was fully registered in 2012.
Whether Leah is fully-qualified depends on what is meant by fully-qualified. She is far too young to be a consultant for instance, or even a GP. But she is a registered medical practitioner, and has been for nearly a year.
If you look her up on the General Medical Council website (the GMC maintains the medical register) you will see she graduated MB BS from the University of East Anglia in 2011 and was fully registered in 2012.
Originally Posted by lammtarra:
“In Britain most medical students start at 18. It is not like the US where they do a degree then go to medical school. A five year medical degree takes her to 23 and the pre-registration year to 24.
Whether Leah is fully-qualified depends on what is meant by fully-qualified. She is far too young to be a consultant for instance, or even a GP. But she is a registered medical practitioner, and has been for nearly a year.
If you look her up on the General Medical Council website (the GMC maintains the medical register) you will see she graduated MB BS from the University of East Anglia in 2011 and was fully registered in 2012.”
“In Britain most medical students start at 18. It is not like the US where they do a degree then go to medical school. A five year medical degree takes her to 23 and the pre-registration year to 24.
Whether Leah is fully-qualified depends on what is meant by fully-qualified. She is far too young to be a consultant for instance, or even a GP. But she is a registered medical practitioner, and has been for nearly a year.
If you look her up on the General Medical Council website (the GMC maintains the medical register) you will see she graduated MB BS from the University of East Anglia in 2011 and was fully registered in 2012.”
Sorry, meant to add:
So Leah is a fully qualified doctor. However, she would now undertake training roles leading eventually to consultancy or general practice. So basically she is a junior hospital doctor (what Americans call an intern, for Scrubs fans).
She is most likely an F1, which is at 24 very possible and the lowest doctor on the wards. I'm a nurse and I work with doctors who are younger than me (27)
Originally Posted by apaul:
“Leah is descried as a 'cosmetic doctor' in this article.
She's probably not a fully qualified medical doctor.”
“Leah is descried as a 'cosmetic doctor' in this article.
She's probably not a fully qualified medical doctor.”
Do you reckon she did her own lips?
Well they are very horrid lips, and she looks like she's overdone the Botox big time.
I guess she's over egged and gold plated her medical/Dr background. I imagine she operates out of her back bedroom administering fillers, Botox and all that stuff to housewives.
I guess she's over egged and gold plated her medical/Dr background. I imagine she operates out of her back bedroom administering fillers, Botox and all that stuff to housewives.
She can most definitely be qualified as a Dr at 24, but she'll be very early on in her NHS career.
Based on this article http://www.londonderrysentinel.co.uk...ands-1-4820044 her business actually seems pretty sound and like it might be a good investment for Lord Sugar.
However the description of her as a cosmetic Dr doesn't mean that she is qualified as a plastic surgeon (as has been suggested on another thread) the training courses for the treatments that her clinic provides can be as short as 4 days long... http://www.medicsdirect.com/botox-tr...es.php#course5
Based on this article http://www.londonderrysentinel.co.uk...ands-1-4820044 her business actually seems pretty sound and like it might be a good investment for Lord Sugar.
However the description of her as a cosmetic Dr doesn't mean that she is qualified as a plastic surgeon (as has been suggested on another thread) the training courses for the treatments that her clinic provides can be as short as 4 days long... http://www.medicsdirect.com/botox-tr...es.php#course5
What I don't understand is: why on earth would a doctor go on 'The Apprentice'?
Is it for the money? because if it is, then it's a bit pointless since her profession do earn quite a lot.
Is it for the money? because if it is, then it's a bit pointless since her profession do earn quite a lot.
Originally Posted by John_Briggs:
“What I don't understand is: why on earth would a doctor go on 'The Apprentice'?
Is it for the money? because if it is, then it's a bit pointless since her profession do earn quite a lot.”
“What I don't understand is: why on earth would a doctor go on 'The Apprentice'?
Is it for the money? because if it is, then it's a bit pointless since her profession do earn quite a lot.”
She probably has a business plan relating to the company she has that runs the skin rejuvenation clinics... I'd guess either to secure new premises and make the clinics permanent or the development of a product in that field.
Originally Posted by apaul:
“Leah is descried as a 'cosmetic doctor' in this article. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/en...-29232759.html
She's probably not a fully qualified medical doctor.”
“Leah is descried as a 'cosmetic doctor' in this article. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/en...-29232759.html
She's probably not a fully qualified medical doctor.”
Thanks for the link apaul, very interesting . According to the article she is an NHS Doctor as well as her interest in Medical Aesthetics which is supposed to be a growth industry.
"Dr Leah Totton, 24, trained in Harley Street and has worked as a model. She set up a company which specialises in skin rejuvenation alongside her work as an NHS doctor."
I was all the time wondering on the programme if those were her own lips or enhanced . I thought surely a doctor wouldn't be worried about the size of her lips . Now we know, although I think she inserted too much filler, and they don't look natural, which is surely the point of any cosmetic procedure.
You want people saying 'Oh look she/he has overdone the lip filler' .
Originally Posted by PrincessTT:
“She probably has a business plan relating to the company she has that runs the skin rejuvenation clinics... I'd guess either to secure new premises and make the clinics permanent or the development of a product in that field.”
“She probably has a business plan relating to the company she has that runs the skin rejuvenation clinics... I'd guess either to secure new premises and make the clinics permanent or the development of a product in that field.”
It's said in the article (which is from February this year) that she hopes to secure premises in Ireland so that her clinic can be run there from Autumn 2013.
Originally Posted by Paace:
“Thanks for the link apaul, very interesting . According to the article she is an NHS Doctor as well as her interest in Medical Aesthetics which is supposed to be a growth industry.
"Dr Leah Totton, 24, trained in Harley Street and has worked as a model. She set up a company which specialises in skin rejuvenation alongside her work as an NHS doctor."
I was all the time wondering on the programme if those were her own lips or enhanced . I thought surely a doctor wouldn't be worried about the size of her lips . Now we know, although I think she inserted too much filler, and they don't look natural, which is surely the point of any cosmetic procedure.
You want people saying 'Oh look she/he has overdone the lip filler' .”
“Thanks for the link apaul, very interesting . According to the article she is an NHS Doctor as well as her interest in Medical Aesthetics which is supposed to be a growth industry.
"Dr Leah Totton, 24, trained in Harley Street and has worked as a model. She set up a company which specialises in skin rejuvenation alongside her work as an NHS doctor."
I was all the time wondering on the programme if those were her own lips or enhanced . I thought surely a doctor wouldn't be worried about the size of her lips . Now we know, although I think she inserted too much filler, and they don't look natural, which is surely the point of any cosmetic procedure.
You want people saying 'Oh look she/he has overdone the lip filler' .”
If that is really her business plan then she has failed already. Her swollen lips and frozen expression are the worst possible advertisement for it.
She may have fine doctor credentials but her voice is a bit grating. (Sorry don't wish to be anti-Irish). After listing to her voice for a while I'd leave her surgery and not want to come back!
Originally Posted by turquoiseblue:
“A medical degree can be five years in the UK. After that you can work as a junior doctor.”
“A medical degree can be five years in the UK. After that you can work as a junior doctor.”
This, ^^^. she is a doctor, does it say anywhere she is fully qualified or registered?
Originally Posted by Toggler:
“Well they are very horrid lips, and she looks like she's overdone the Botox big time.
I guess she's over egged and gold plated her medical/Dr background. I imagine she operates out of her back bedroom administering fillers, Botox and all that stuff to housewives.”
“Well they are very horrid lips, and she looks like she's overdone the Botox big time.
I guess she's over egged and gold plated her medical/Dr background. I imagine she operates out of her back bedroom administering fillers, Botox and all that stuff to housewives.
”
That would be a filler in her lips, not Botox
I doubt she has lied about her medical qualifications.
You don't need to incorrectly imagine what she does, it's published.
Originally Posted by Ray_Smith:
“She may have fine doctor credentials but her voice is a bit grating. (Sorry don't wish to be anti-Irish). After listing to her voice for a while I'd leave her surgery and not want to come back!”
“She may have fine doctor credentials but her voice is a bit grating. (Sorry don't wish to be anti-Irish). After listing to her voice for a while I'd leave her surgery and not want to come back!”
I'm not bothered about her voice, but her tendency to pull a facial expression? Annoying. Every time she rolls eyes, pulls upper lip as a sneer or pouts sullenly, I want to slap her silly. If Luisa is rude with her comments, Leah is rude with her facial expressions. Can she be so immature that she doesn't know how to keep her negativity off her face?
Originally Posted by John_Briggs:
“What I don't understand is: why on earth would a doctor go on 'The Apprentice'?
Is it for the money? because if it is, then it's a bit pointless since her profession do earn quite a lot.”
“What I don't understand is: why on earth would a doctor go on 'The Apprentice'?
Is it for the money? because if it is, then it's a bit pointless since her profession do earn quite a lot.”
Junior doctor's/SHO's and even registrars don't earn that much imo for the amount of hours they put in. The decent money earners are the consultants.
Originally Posted by Damanda:
“This, ^^^. she is a doctor, does it say anywhere she is fully qualified or registered?”
“This, ^^^. she is a doctor, does it say anywhere she is fully qualified or registered?”
Yes. As I mentioned earlier, you can go to the General Medical Council's website and check the registration details of any doctor.
Originally Posted by lammtarra:
“Yes. As I mentioned earlier, you can go to the General Medical Council's website and check the registration details of any doctor.”
“Yes. As I mentioned earlier, you can go to the General Medical Council's website and check the registration details of any doctor.”
Thanks for the link lammtarra, handy to know if you want to check the qualifications of your own doctor or any doctor.
And yes Leah is registered .
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