Posted The "Med Student Tsunami" and an Invitation. to My Medical Career Community
If you've been living under a rock you might, just MIGHT, have missed the fact that medical student numbers will almost double this decade, but I doubt it. The implications this has for the availability and quality of training places post-graduation is enormous, without adequate clinical experiences in the early...
Posted The 4 Types of specialties to My Medical Career Community
The way I see it, and you have to understand that this is purely how I see it, there are 4 kinds of specialties. Systems based specialties: are just what they sound like, specialties based around one system of the body, cardiology, neurosurgery, gastroenterology, endocrinology etc etc. These specialties seem to deal...
Posted What I like and don't like about medicine. to My Medical Career Community
Good things about medicine:It's pretty interesting; I'm not sure if practicing medicine would be as interesting as learning it, I'm told that a lot of people once they become specialists became frustrated by the monotony of seeing the same cases day in day out. I'm not sure this is that...
Posted The story so far. to My Medical Career Community
As a second year med student I've done about 45 academic weeks so far, in that time I've had about 40 P.B.L.s, seen about 60 patients in person and had 15 sessions in the skills lab. Some things I've done to (willing) patientsHistory takingGI examsCardiology ExamsRespiratory ExamsNeuro ExamsFundoscopyTaken blood pressureThings I've...
Posted What I'm packing, more thoughts on specialties to My Medical Career Community
Med school isn't really as expensive a business as people say and I found that with a decent part time job it wasn't even much of a stress to buy any piece of equipment or textbook I've wanted. That being said there's a lot of choice out there as to what equipment to...
Posted Who am I? And what specialty do I want to do? to My Medical Career Community
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...
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