04/06/08 - Gone phishin':
This post is totally reactionary, but hell is it ever justified...
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20/06/08 - OSCE:
In about 1hrs time I'll be sitting my first OSCE.
Not sure what to expect, who knows it may be even vaguely enjoyable?...
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23/06/08 - OSCEs Episode I - A Phantom Menace:
After the final end of year exam I have reached one single conclusion; that OSCEs are perhaps the most intense two hours of the first year. Normally I manage to compose myself and suppress any inevitable anxieties that arise with exams, but being thrown into an OSCE situation for the first time really is a testament of character...
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27/06/08 - Year one, done:
Results day, for the seventh consecutive year, same anticipation, same ambiguity. The always uncomfortable social etiquette that accompanies results day – Should you ask? Should you tell? Blanket congratulations, well done to all even if you failed.
There’s a saying that goes, “What do you call the guy who graduates bottom of his class in medical school?”...
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02/07/08 - A dose of first year medicine:
It’s over one year on since I first started this blog, back in the days of wonderment, excitement and feverish anticipation. A whole year of lectures, practicals, workshops, placements, tutorials, patients and exams – and a year that has come with sweet highs and bitter lows. Medicine it would seem is the abyss, and one year on I am still right at the top, staring down.
The Good
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