Anyone who knows me or follows me on social media will be well aware that for the past year I have been working at the Leeds General Infirmary as a Dental Core Trainee (DCT) in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. For the medics reading this, DCT is our equivalent of core training, and we are effectively a Senior House Officer in OMFS, with a dentistry degree. Out of everyone who has done the job or is starting it, no one ever seems too phased by the time spent in operating theatr