In the midst of exam and OSCE practice I’ve been doing so many crappy examinations on so many of my friends and family who have begrudgingly agreed to help me and I realised; I rarely take a good look at
What’s In My Bag? – Medical student version
As I’m nearing the end of my time in medical school, I thought I should probably clear out my hospital placement bag and give it a really good clean (it’s probably got MRSA on it somewhere). Here’s a bunch of
Diary of a Med Student on Psychiatry
Morning 5:30 Wake up freaking out I’M LATE Oh wait… I’m not on surg anymore I’ve got another 2 hours sleep. Thank god for 9-5 psychiatry. 7:30 Alarm goes off… Snoozed 8:00 Three snoozes later… damnit still late 8:15 Sprint
Classic Comical Clinical (years) Conversations: med student-patient conversations
This is my second clinical year of medical school and although it hasn’t been long, I’ve had some pretty interesting conversations with patients. I decided to document a few of them that have come about several times over the last
What hog-wards house do you belong in?
Everyone has a ward personality – from the ward rat who never leaves to the ghost the team have never met. Hopefully you’ll have figured out how much you value you ward time somewhere along the way and know what
Diary of a Med Student on Surgery
Morning 0530 Alarm goes off. Snoozed. 0545 Alarm goes off. Snoozed. 0600 Alarm goes off. I’m very awake and very late. 0615 Drive aggressively to try find free parking near the hospital. 0708 Try to sneakily join the registrar ward
Low content teaching
The ‘_______ people are people too’ lectures and other topics that should be common sense Every rotation we seem to get another round of lectures with the overarching theme of *insert demographic here* are people too. The most recent one
The F word… Failure!
Failure doesn’t fit into the lives of any medical student. We are all crazy type A people with the goals of achieving 110% in every exam, scooping up all the awards on graduation day, being Medical Student of the century
Maintaining relationships outside your intense af course
Why relationships outside a medical career are hard. But so damn necessary Disclaimer: I have no perfect solutions for this. This is a part of my life I struggle with, and know many others do too. Maybe that’s why
Should you go to *insert medical event here*?
A quick guide to navigating the millions of medical talks, teachings, seminars and cocktail nights that plague your events feed.
Mindfulness. Why does it sh*t me so much?
Quick foreword: my cynicism knows no bounds. If you’re unlike me and thus have never had and never will have any problem with the mindfulness movement, please leave, go ahead and enjoy its benefits untainted by doubt and distrust.
And Another Thing! – Simulations from a junior doctor’s perspective
“There is an art, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” – Life, the Universe and Everything We’ve learnt heaps from Dr Brazil about simulations.
Simulation: Delivery, the debrief and everything
“The reason why it was published in the form of a micro sub meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitchhiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in.”–
The Medical Student’s Guide to Simulations
“Space, is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” – A Hitchhiker’s