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Just heard from Yorkshire deanery the other week. I have been offered ST1 Ophthalmology for this year. Was originally offered FTSTA1, but it seems that a lot of people turned down offers sent to them because Yorkshire were so slow to come out with results compared to other deaneries who had already made offers, so I got upgraded. Add in the fact that the way shortlisting was someone somehow resulted in most of the same people being shortlisted in most places (with a handful of extra people getting the 1 interview), and it's unsurprising that when those people have taken jobs somewhere else, there's going to be a lot of "no" responses if you hand out offers last. While i'm but no means sorry that things turned out this way, you have to wonder exactly how the deaneries carried out their shortlisting for this to happen. When you hear of people passionate about the speciality with courses, audits, and presentations related to the speciality on their CV not being shortlisted, and general surgical registrars applying on a whim with nothing ophthalmic on their CV getting shortlisted, it does make a mockery of the system.