I'm a second year student studying for an MBBS at UWS. I'm a school leaver who decided to do medicine sometime in year 11, and I've kind of stuck with it ever since. Since this blog isn't anonymous I wont be mentioning any patients but I will be documenting the new skills and any interesting facts I learn along the way.
I'm a member of:
- The NSW Branch Executive of the Public Health Association of Australia
- The UWS Medicine curriculum committee
- Medstudentsonline.com.au (As a moderator)
I intend to use this blog to see just how quickly I change between preferred specialty and wether my reasons for liking and disliking specialties change in clinical years.
Going into medicine I thought definitely paediatrics. Why? I like kids. That was pretty much it. Hospital can be pretty traumatic for kids and being a good paediatrician can really help. It's a job where not being a dickhead/asshole/general-pig-headed-aggressor actually helps you do your job properly. I just hate the whole nice guys finish last thing, because I'm not willing to become an asshole. The thing about the rat race is even if you finish first, you're still a rat. Paediatrics is one of those things where being nice makes you better at your job not worse. Maybe all medicine's like that because all patients are vulnerable to some extent, but there's somethign about kids that makes them especially vulnerable, and if I can help them avoid major trauma (psychological) by being nice then I'm doing something right aren't I.
I've moved on from that position a bit, though paediatrics still occupies on of the top spots on my list, but I'll elaborate on what I currently think would be good specialties and why at a later date. I just thought in keeping with this being the first post and all i should tell you where it started, so to speak.
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