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I am now half a doctor
I suppose it is appropriate to share the good news on Thanksgiving, even though we do not really celebrate the holiday in South Africa: I passed my third year final examinations. If you have been...
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Med School: The Reaping
They supposedly do this thing at the beginning of medical school: Look to your left, look to your right. Only one of you will graduate in the allotted time. I don’t remember them doing it for our...
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Ectoparasite Infections in Art, Literature and History
Because today is a study day (and I would like to study, for once), today is a quick post. One of the chapters in Dermatology is about ectoparasite infections of the skin. These include crabs (Pthirus...
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The Day I Cried in Hospital
Yesterday was a bad day. It’s been a bad couple of weeks, emotionally; me being weaker than I ever thought I could be. I’ve been able to retain my composure mostly. However, during ward rounds our...
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Studying Skeleton
Ah, we love our bag o’ bones in medical school, don’t we? I’ve shared some skeletal creativity here and here, and today I share another picture. Anyway, this will be me for the next while as my...
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Lessons from Anaesthesiology
I’ve been devoting three and a half loooong days to Anaesthesiology. It’s the big exam tomorrow. You might recall that I struggled a lot with this subject at the time of the class test. Well, I ended...
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Forensics Study Break: Mellanby Effect
How is it that I perform better at Anaesthetics and Infectious Diseases than at Forensic Pathology? It was a short two-week module and by all accounts my class should have done well., but our average...
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Things I Want: Infectious Plushies
Friday is my final final exam for fourth year. Exams have gone really well so far this year, but after this weekend’s news I guess my focus has been a little off.* Since I’m studying all sorts of...
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Exams are OVER, and I’m Lucky
Fourth Year exams are over now. The academic year is not quite over yet – I have an elective ahead of me – but still, it’s practically summer. Yay! Friday’s exam wasn’t great. Which is sad, because the...
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War Stories: OSCEs
Did I ever tell you about the paediatric OSCE that went horribly wrong? I think I might have alluded to it once or twice. The Paeds Rotation is possibly the scariest rotation at our school – stories...
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You Think You Know…
In our first year, we had a professor who always used to say this: It drove us nuts. She had a tendency to be pretty rude to students, but she was scary too, so we never openly challenged her. But I...
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The Nerd in its Natural Habitat
You saw it here first: this video clip was made by my sister’s boyfriend while she was studying for her final high school exams about a year ago (he was apparently doing the “moral support” thing, and...
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Midnight Inspiration: Dystopia
Our ophthalmology rotation ends today, and we have a theoretical exam as well as a viva voce exam. A week of migraines necessitated an all-nighter, and naturally, this was what my brain fixated on:...
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Vascular Surgery, Exam Anxiety and Stuff
I think I may, for the first time in my life, have some genuine academic anxiety. I’ll be writing my first set of FINAL med school finals in ten weeks. Six domains in four days: Urology, Ophthalmology,...
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Advice Solicited: How Do You Do It?
I have a question for medical students and doctors (and anyone else who thinks they can): How do you do it? I am in my final (sixth) year now and it is by far the hardest year I have ever had. We are...
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Bookish and not so Bookish Mostly-LGBT Thoughts
I really hope that Christine, Laura and Cayce won’t mind, but I’m combining Bookish (and not so Bookish) Thoughts and LGBT Month this week. I really have little to no time to write more with these dumb...
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Hell Week is Over. But I’d Rather Talk About SAS.
I survived Hell Week. Not sure what that is? Check this post, right at the end. I don’t really want to talk about it though. I’m pretty traumatised. Thanks to a huge amount of prayers and support and...
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Tips for New Student Interns: Part 2 – On Studying
Exactly a year ago, I started Student Internship. Now, we are getting ready to welcome the new bunch as we prepare to take our leave from medical school – soon, soon. That first week of SI was so...
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The Medical App You Should Get NOW (and an exam PSA)
Figure 1 might not be new to my international readers, but I am SO EXCITED to share that today the app launches in South Africa! I’ve been using the app a bit longer because I have access to an...
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On the Go: Jetting off to MWASA 2014
Firstly: I survived hell-week! It was very different than the first hell-week in April. In April I was examined on two completely different subjects a day. This year it was one a day, but with much...
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