Dear Raphael, I am emailing to share the outcome of the Pathway 1 SFP interviews. I am very pleased to inform you that you were successful in your application, and would like to offer you the position of education-oriented SFP. The standard of applications was incredibly high, so this is an impressive achievement – many congratulations!

✨Medical Education SFP Secured✨

Absolutely thrilled to share that after a long application and interview process, I’ve been selected for one of just five ring-fenced Specialised Foundation Programme jobs by the Birmingham Medical School.👨‍🎓

Looking forward to the opportunities the SFP offers! 🩺

GLADD writing prize 2025 Intersecting identities Medical & dental students prize Early career doctors & dentists prize Deadline 14/11/25 2pm GLADD logo and images of an art easel and a piece of paper with a quill

Coming back from a little social media break to share this exciting opportunity we’re offering at @gladduk.bsky.social for early career doctors and dentists as well as students this year!

Explore your creativity and maybe even win a cash prize 🤩 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

A program for ‘the constant wife’ in front of a stage set of a living room

After unfortunately missing the press night due to illness, I’m very grateful to The RSC for fitting me in to review ‘The Constant Wife’ tonight! ✨

Review to come on @allthatdazzles.bsky.social 🎭

Dear Raphael, On behalf of the Trustees of the Roper-Hall Eye Foundation, I would like to congratulate you on being awarded our 2025 University of Birmingham MBChB Undergraduate Ophthalmology Prize to the value of [censored] for your essay ‘Tele-Ophthalmology in the 21st Century: Innovation or Necessity for Global Eye Health?' Our Trustees were very impressed with your essay that showed an in-depth understanding of the key concepts of the topic. It was easy to read with little jargon, well laid out, and appropriately referenced. Best wishes. Yours sincerely,

Very proud to find out that I’ve been awarded the Roper-Hall Ophthalmology Prize this year at my medical school!

Picture of all the GLADD AGM attendees

Dr Kit Tigwell and Raphael Kohn presenting Dr Jo Hartland with the David Harvey Award

Loved attending the @gladduk.bsky.social Annual Dinner and AGM earlier this month - a fab evening celebrating 30 years of GLADD. It was an honour to present the David Harvey Award to @drjohartland.bsky.social ✨🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Very pleased to have been re-elected as Co-Chair for another year!

An outdoor wood stage with a hut on it

Celebrating my birthday at the Regents Park Open Air Theatre to see what I hear is an a-maize-ing musical… it’s time for ‘Shucked’! 🌽🎭

A mirror selfie of me

Happy 23rd birthslay to me 💅🎂🎈

Thanks to the @nationaltheatre.org.uk ‘s £10 16-25s ticket scheme for making this theatre visit possible 🫶

Two actors on a stage with mirrors on it

Excited for an afternoon of Sondheim and surrealism at the @nationaltheatre.org.uk for today’s matinee of ‘Here We Are’ 🎭 ✨

A program of ‘after the act’ held in front of a stage with a white backdrop and furniture on it

Back to reviewing tonight, this time at @royalcourt.bsky.social to see ‘After The Act’ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Review to come on @allthatdazzles.bsky.social 🎭

Me standing at the front of a lecture theatre

An awesome afternoon today representing @gladduk.bsky.social , teaching @unibirmingham.bsky.social’s 3rd year MBChB students all about LGBTQ+ health and inclusivity in their professional development module 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Me and another student standing next to a poster on a screen

A real pleasure to have co-presented a talking poster today at #ASGBI2025!

Email reading: ‘Dear Raphael Kohn, Your main assessment period results and progress decisions are now available. Please read all the information below for details and guidance. Results and Feedback Recommendation Your recommendation from the Main Board of Examiners meeting is: Passed with no supplementary requirements.’

That’s one step closer to becoming a doctor out the way…

Fourth year exams? Passed them ✅

Bring on final year!

A white stone stage with a programme for ‘Titus Andronicus’ held in front

Ready for a bloody good show tonight at the press night of ‘Titus Andronicus’ at The RSC 🩸

Review to come on @allthatdazzles.bsky.social 🎭

A program for ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ in front of a stage with football projections on it and screens to the side reading ‘Messina FC’

Back at the theatre tonight for The RSC’s new season, beginning with a footy-themed ‘Much Ado About Nothing’!

Kick-off’s at 7.00, hoping this one scores a screamer or two! (did i get the foot-ball references right?)

Review to come on @allthatdazzles.bsky.social 🎭

Spent the last month off social media to focus on my exams.

It was utterly blissful, to be honest. No TERF bigotry in my replies. No constant spew of hate everywhere.

Quite tempted to do it again…

A program for Edward II featuring two characters kissing

Time for another press night - this time it’s to see The RSC’s ‘Edward II’!

Review to come on @allthatdazzles.bsky.social 🎭

Being locked in a train carriage on the platform with alarms incessantly going off is not how I wanted to start this morning…

Review: Hamlet (Royal Shakespeare Theatre) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Tremendous creative risks are taken with massive payoffs in this titanic production of Shakespeare’s classic.

Shakespeare goes nautical in the RSC’s new production of ‘Hamlet’. With an immaculately assembled cast, tremendous creative risks are taken with massive payoffs in this titanic, utterly triumphant production.
Read @raphaelk0hn.bsky.social’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review here:
www.allthatdazzles.co.uk/post/review-...

A boat-like set on a thrust stage, tilted downwards with a wooden roof hung above

It’s time for The RSC’s first press night of 2025 as ‘Hamlet’ opens tonight… and it looks to be a titan of a production!

Review to come on @allthatdazzles.bsky.social 🎭

Me wearing blue scrubs and a rainbow lanyard

Back in blues for surgical rotations 🔵

Not yet, but maybe in the future… 👀

There was an opportunity to present creative reflections on our experiences - I delivered a spoken word poem about ADHD as my entry

Commendation in psychiatry Proudly presented to Raphael Kohn For showing great engagement in the psychiatry rotation University of Birmingham Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Creativity in psychiatry This prize is proudly awarded to Raphael Kohn For a beautiful project during the psychiatry placement 07.02.2025 University of Birmingham Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

As I reach the end of my psychiatry rotation that I’ve been on these past few weeks, I’m feeling very proud to have been awarded an end-of-rotation commendation, as well as the creativity in psychiatry prize!

On to surgery and anaesthetics next… I’m very excited!

A programme for Swan Lake in front of a white curtain with a swan on it

My first press night of the year tonight at the Birmingham Hippodrome for Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake 🩰 ✨

Review to come on @allthatdazzles.bsky.social 🎭

An image of the BMA logo with the progress pride flag.

Today is the start of LGBTQ+ History Month. #LGBTplusHM25

Far too many LGBTQ+ doctors and medical students still face discrimination. As your trade union, we are here to support you. THREAD

It’s 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ History Month.

So reflecting on the terrible history of So-Called ‘Conversion Therapy’, I’m hoping we’ll see more Medical Schools over the next year work on making the future of medicine safer for 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ people.

Very few med schools left now on the GLADD Charter… 👀

UK Medical Schools’ Charter on So-Called LGBTQ+ ‘Conversion Therapy’ Created in partnership between The Association of LGBTQ+ Doctors and Dentists (GLADD) and Lancaster University Medical School

Wonderful news as North Wales Medical School at Bangor University joins the @gladduk.bsky.social Charter on So-Called LGBTQ+ ‘Conversion Therapy’ - so proud to see our project continue to flourish so successfully 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

See it here: res.cloudinary.com/gladd/image/...

A picture of me in front of a slide bearing the GLADD logo

Had a lovely morning at Aston Medical School, representing @gladduk.bsky.social, to deliver a lecture to their bright first-year students about LGBTQ+ Health and how to be an inclusive doctor 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Quick question: why is a British ‘queer theatre’ programming a play starring a performer who expresses anti-trans sentiments??

You’re either here for the LGBTQ+ community or you’re not. And let me tell you now, you’re not.