Dr Heidi McAlpine is a neurosurgery registrar at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. Today, she gives us fantastic insight into what it’s like being the only female registrar currently on the program! While occasionally being mistaken for another, more junior member
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
TMC026: Neurosurgery with Dr Leon Lai
Dr Leon Lai is a neurosurgery consultant at Monash Health. Leon has always been a focused and driven doctor, never considering any specialty other than neurosurgery. His special interest lies in vascular neurosurgery, although this is somewhat in decline due