Holiday Time!

Get in.

I would just leave it there but I’m not sure if two words is sufficienct for a month. Maybe three:

Get in. Haha.

Too much? =] Besides, I’m actually lying as the holidays don’t start until next week and, when I say holiday, I mean revision-fest…..(in a somewhat pathetic tone) wooooooo…..

Nah, as always, it’s not that bad. I get to go home where there is FREE FOOD!! YEAH!! Oh, and also my family of course =]. Haha. Seriously though, it is good to get home and catch up with the old crowd and others. Good times. But this blog isn’t about the future!! On to what happened this month!

I’m gonna level with you here, I don’t actually have that much to talk about as it’s been a pretty intense month. There’s not even been *that* much work (if anything, I’m finding that 3rd year is the easiest to manage so far…) I just don’t seem to have much free time…. But enough moping because I have some properly exciting news: I took blood from…..wait for it……..A REAL PERSON! How awesome is that!? Fair enough, it was another student at my GPs but even so, in the words of my flatmate it’s “pretty frickin’ sweet.” It’s also surprisingly difficult to take a sample. You’d think the hard part was getting the needle in but, for me, it was getting the sample tube onto the outlet thing. You have to keep the needle bit stationary while you fidgit about and twist things on and all sorts: what a nightmare!

Another exciting thing I’ve done this month is watch this video (don’t worry, it’s nothing rude or offensive; just….interesting……):

http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=9020JJNU

If you ever get the chance to watch it, I thoroughly recommend it.

Within the med-school, we’ve all switched hospitals and I’ve started at Gartnavel which is pretty awesome. The teaching is good when we get it and it’s walkable from home (YEY!). Highlight so far: seeing a bronchoscopy.

We’re also onto our latest block: psychiatric medicine. Of everything I’ve done in med-school so far I’ve found it the hardest to engage with because it seems like many of the conditions we’ve been studying can be summed up like this: “We don’t know what causes it, what’s happening in the brain when it’s there or really how to treat it effectively BUT we *think* this could be going on so maybe that will help treat it for a while.”

Don’t get me wrong, I love the massive empahsis placed on patient-orientated care and do find some of it interesting; I just find it hard to motivate myself to learn about things where science’s best-guess at what’s going on is a self-confessed fraud.

On a happier note, our new SSC options are up. I’m hoping to get to do Clinical Haemtology and Oncology though we’ll see what happens as there are only like 10 places available so I may end up doing something else. Either way, I’ll be happy as this SSC is straight after the exam when I’ll just be relieved the revision is over haha.

Outside the world of medicine I’m performing at a dinner this Saturday. It sounds a lot more impressive than it actually is as I’m reciting poetry at it. Fair enough, it is a poem in Lowland Scots so that’s quite interesting. The cookery course I’ve been doing with my friend ends in two weeks. It’s been pretty sweet and I’ve learnt to make some pretty tasty dishes. Our weekly basketball session has also started up again after a 4 month hiatus when no-one could be bother to wake up at 7am to phone in and book it. Thank to Mark for doing that btw.

Sadly, other than that, I’ve not much to say other than: have a good holiday!!!

Adieu!!

Happy New Year!

HELLO!!!  Did you have a good Christmas and New Year!? Because I did!

I had a fantastic holiday back at home! As usual, I spent a great deal of time with the family but, isn’t that what Christmas is all about? Catching up with long lost acquaintances!? I had a quiet Christmas dining with the family this year. Though I did get some awesome pressies! Highlights included a pair of those glasses with the springy eyes coming out of them!! YEAH. New Year was much the same though my dad’s EX-girlfriend did turn up completely out of the blue. AWKWARD.

But, alas, the festivities had to end eventually and here I am: back at university. It’s not that bad really though the workload did hit me pretty hard again. Quite the shock.

As to medical school information. I’ve literally JUST submitted my Longitudinal Care Project Submission One and by Jove am I glad that’s over! It’s been a real strain maintaing some sembelence of a free time between trying to perfect that, visiting the hospitals, doing PBL, going to lectures and then going to the GP. The LCP evidence-based medicine research was quite daunting but, having delved into it, I have concluded that it all sounds and looks much scarier than it actually is.

On the plus side, as it’s now over I plan on celebrating by buying myself some new headphones. I know it sounds lame, but I’ve had the same pair for like 5 years now. They’ve been mauled by a dog, given me electric shocks, had numerous things spilt on them, lost their ‘grip’ coating a good two years back and have gone from their original white to an off-brown…nice……So anyway, I kept putting of replacing them but I feel now is the time as I was actually quite pleased with how the essays had gone and felt I could do with a wee reward. =]

Other than LCP, the course has continued in much the same vain as last term. Our new block is a bit of a mish-mash of different pathologies from rheumatoid arthritis to HIV, but I’m really enjoying it. In particular, I thoroughly enjoyed learning about Leukaemia as I’ve got quite a keen interest in Oncology. In fact, I’m actually considering an intercalated degree in Cancer Studies (ideally) at the end of this year. Fingers crossed I get that.

Outside of medical school, I signed up to Chinese cookery course with a Chinese friend of mine who works in a Chinese take-away…..weird right? But it’s all about the fun for us so he doesn’t care. Anyway, it started last Monday and I’m so glad I went. It was just fantastic fun last week!! I’m really looking forward to tomorrow’s session, where we are making the exotic, flambuoyant dish ‘Salmon Yakitori’, with the not quite so exotic side of ‘Sesame Prawn Toast’. Get in.

I’ve also started reading Ben Goldacre’s book “Bad Science”, which is truly insightful. I don’t know if anyone’s familiar with it but if you ever get the chance to read it, it’s pretty frickin sweet.

Right, I need to go to some lectures now so have fun and I shall right next month!

BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Holidays are coming!!!

Yey!!! The holidays are coming / are actually here right now for me! Woop woop!

Since my last post, my teaching has been in much the same vein as before. We have been studying cardiovascular and respiratory pathology in quite some depth this block, and have now covered a whole range of topics from heart murmurs to the pathology underlying lung cancer. It’s been fascinating! I feel that I’ve found it much easier to stay motivated this year because we have so much clinical teaching (~12 hours a week). To be honest, it’s actually much easier because, finally, you can see why what you’re learning is relevant! =] 

During my clinical teaching, quite sadly, I’ve had the best experience of my year so far! It happened when we were doing a ward round and got to hear a heart murmur. Now, on all our ward rounds, we aren’t told anything about the patient and have to take a history then perform the appropriate examination before attempting a diagnosis. In textbooks murmurs are described (quite poorly tbh) as a ‘whooshing’ sound, which always confused me a little. I mean, what the heck is that!? However, when I listen the patient’s chest, I immediately heard this ‘whooshing’ sound (which I would describe as a pig with a cough making a  noise if you’ve ever heard one………) and knew the diagnosis. It was a really surreal moment for me because, though I’m embarrassed to admit it, I felt like a real doctor for the first time!! How lame is that!?

But on to more serious issues now; one of the biggest issues I’m facing this year is organising my junior elective for next summer. I’ve decided to stay in the UK (because I’m skint!) this summer and have decided to try and get some ‘general medicine’ experience in an A and E department. I applied to a few hospitals earlier this week but haven’t heard back from any yet…. Still we’ll see what happens.

Outside of medical school, I’ve joined the Glasgow Reach Programme. Basically, this is an initiative set up by the university that aims to help students from a disadvantaged background get in to medicine, law or veterinary medicine (I think). It’s quite exciting because this is the first year that the programme has run and we get to be the ‘guinea-pig’ ‘mentors’.

Essentially, the initiative has three key aspects to it. The first are known as ‘prospective student days’, and involve potential school students visiting the medical school for a day of workshops aimed at helping them get through the admission process. During these days, they will see a mock interview and, in groups of 5 or 6, be given the chance to talk to current students (like myself) about the admissions process in detail. So, that’s quite exciting.

The second aspect is school visits. With these, current students will visit schools and give a presentation about the benefits of university while explaining the admissions process and giving tips on how to get in to the more competitive subjects. The final aspect is E-mentoring. We haven’t been told much about this aspect but I think it’s basically going to be an expansion on the current student e-mentor scheme where prospective students can e-mail current students to ask anything at all about getting in to university or life at uni in general. 

Our first prospective student day was supposed to be yesterday but due to the poo weather, it got cancelled. Speaking of the weather by the way, my flatmates exams have been cancelled for the past two days owing to it. Awesome huh? I mean, um,  how terrible……*shifty eyes*…….

Moving swiftly on, other than all of the above, my biggest worry has been organising the annual Christmas dinner for my friends. For some reason this year, places were booking out far in advance but, luckily, we have managed to secure a table at the exquisite Stravaigan 2 and we’re pretty excited about that. Yeah!!

Right, seeing as it’s now the holidays, I feel I shall leave it there and wish you all a very merry Christmas and the absolute best of New Years! See y’all in Janurary!

PEACE OUT.

Half-way!!!

Hello again!!!

Good news! We’re half-way through the first term and everything is in full swing. I’ve sat my SSC exam (which went okay), have been to Ayr Hospital (which is amazing) and have spent the day in my allocated GP surgery (which was also pretty sweet). But more importantly than that, I now own a pet rabbit!!!!! Hoorah for Gumtree!! My girlfriend just happened to be online looking at adverts then BAM, on came one offering a free baby rabbit to a good home with cage included!!! 3 hours later and we were the proud owners of Barney the Big Fluffy Bunny. YEAH!

But enough of this, I should probably give you some more details on the hospital/GP since that talking about my time at med-school was the original purpose of this blog. I’ll be honest, travelling to Ayr every Monday and Thursday SUCKS but it is well and truly worth it. The teaching is phenomenal! The fellows (as they’re called) are super-friendly and give you fantastic feedback on your clinical skills. Not only that, but the canteen is well tasty and student-affordable. So basically, it’s win win all round.

My GP is pretty much the same. He’s really nice and loves cheese. What’s not to like!? It’s quite scary there though since this year, we are supposed to ‘run’ the afternoon surgery in the GP practice, which is TERRIFYING! On the bright side, it’s one heck of a steep learning curve and you really have to focus to keep up.

On the whole this year, I’m really enjoying the actual subjects we’re studying. This year is basically pathology so we don’t have to learn any new ‘normal’ stuff, which is the area I used to dislike most since it was quite a lot of anatomy…..=[ Not cool. So far, we've looked at Peripheral Vascular Disease, Tuberculosis, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder and Septic Shock; all of which have been really interesting. Favourite so far....? Tuberculosis.

Another key aspect of this year is our continuous coursework in the form of the Longitudinal Care Project. Essentially, we visit an individual with a chronic disease on numerous occassions throughout the year and produce three 2000 word essays on our experiences. We also visit a second individual and have to write another 2000 word essay on them as well. It sounds pretty intensive but the material we have to cover in the essays is more social than scientific meaning it shouldn't be too hard, as I find that sort of thing easier. =]

Outside of medical school, I’m not going to lie, I’ve had very little free time to do anything. It sucks. But it’s my friends birthday tonight so we’re all going round there for a bit of a get-together, which I am really looking forward to!!! Yey!!!

I’m afraid that’s all I’ve got to say for this month, but I shall return in that most Christmasy of Months: DECEMBER!!! =]

Peace out.

And here we are again!

Seasons greetings all!! No, it’s not Christmas but it is something almost as good: the start of another academic year!……….. Nah, i’m just kidding. It’s not that bad at all and I’m actually sooooo excited to be back! You really do forget just how much fun it is to be back in the flat and hanging out with your chums again.

How was your summer? I have to say, mine was frickin awesome. Unfortunately, I had to work all summer but I got meet some fantastic people and had some seriously good times so it wasn’t all bad. Also, I got to learn how to make some wicked cocktails so who’s complaining? Luckily, I did get one break towards the end as I went to see Greenday in London with my girlfriend! I was going to post up some pictures but I just saw that one of my fellow blog…..ees (?) kind of already did that. Dammit. I have to say, London is such a fun place to visit. We did all the stereotypically tourist things like Harrods, Ripleys, London Dungeon, Tower of London, Natural History Museum and my personal favourite: THE LION KING MUSICAL! I’m well aware that it may sound dire to many of you but let me tell you, if you get the chance, definitely go and see it. I swear, I was almost crying it was that good.

But that was then and this is now and here I am about to start my 3rd year and things are getting pretty serious. First off, we’re all having to make some hardcore decisions about electives and intercalated degrees and where to do them and what in etc. etc. It’s seriously intense. Moreover, we’re all going to be in hospitals pretty consistently from now on so we really have to get our acts together. Still, though it sounds like hard going, it’s been a long time since I’ve had to do any work like this so I’m actually enjoying it.

Right now I’m doing an SSC in Evolution in Health and Disease and it is awesome. It’s all about how humans evolved and how infections evolved from animal infections and things like that. It might sound like it isn’t that relative to modern medicine, but I’m starting to see how useful it is – particular if you were looking at research.

Still, that’s enough medical chit chat for now. On to more important matters. Matters like the All Bran Appreciation society, who I’ve just been told need to re-affiliate this year to keep qualifying for our £25 a year funding. Actually, I really need to go onto that….. :S. Moving swiftly on, I’ve returned to Ultimate Firsbee this year and am enjoying it so much more!! I strongly recommend it!

Well, that’s about it for now. I hope you’re all having a blast and I will update soon!

Calum

Welcome to the world of tomoorrow

Sorry, I was watching some futurama earlier and you know how these things get stuck in your head. But onto business.

Here we are in the bountiful month of May when the sun doth shine and the mooth doth glow and grass doth grooooooohoooooow (GRRRReat song by the by) and yet, here I sit in my dingy, artificially lit room studying. I mean, what? Just like, WHAT!? This blows. Enough of the ranting though. As I just mentioned I am now in hardcore (i.e. 12-14hrs a day) study mode and there are only 3 weeks and 2 days until my exam.

Now, I reckon quite a few of you will be sat out there like “only sheesh, 3 hrs and I’m ready to go !!” and, indeed, you’d be right in that trail of thought if you weren’t studying medicine. Now, I’d like to make it exceptionally clear that I am in no way saying that other subjects aren’t as difficult, it’s just the sheer volume of information I’m facing reminds me of the Mt. Everest: huge, dull and ultimately unsurmountable (to me). Still, on the plus side, those three weeks will no doubt go flying by and before we know it it’ll be the SUMMER HOLIDAYS!! YEEESSSSS.

Another plus is that our new block is quite a lot of revision and so, is proving to be excellent for helping me remember some of earlier curriculum that I’d completely forgetten ever existed. =]

But enough of this, there are far more exciting things to say!! Firstly, I got in touch with  Kelloggs asking if the All Bran Appreciation Society could come to visit the factory where they produce their bran-based products in mid-June sometime (I did this last year as well but they never got back to me). Within a few hours of me sending the e-mail, I got a rather sincere apology that “due to health and safety reasons, plant tours are no longer permitted”. GUTTED. What a let down!!! But secondly, and more positively, I did make fresh pasta for the first time ever last week and it was pretty darn tasty, if incredibly fiddly to make. =D

Right, I’m afraid that that’s all I have got time for at the minute but shall update at some point!

Goodbye!!

the holidays have arrived!!

YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!

The holidays are here! Get in! I mean, how terrible…no university for 3 weeks….just awful….. Pfffffft! Seriously though, I’m so glad it’s holiday time. Towards the end of last term I could feel the need for a holiday so badly. The workload was immense and we’d had three courseworks in a row; it was a nightmarishly proportioned workload. Still, it’s over now and I have 3 weeks of blessed sunshine (:S) to spend relaxing with my friends! Or so it would appear….

To be fair, I did spend the first few days doing that but then it hit me that I only had 9 weeks until my exam and over 200 pages of notes to memorise, along with 4 workbooks of labwork. Goooooood times. Since that revelation, I have come to Wales (who said running away from your problems couldn’t solve them!? ), and have been doing a whole load of touristy things!! It’s been fantastic fun!!! If you ever see a food known as Welsh Cakes, I strongly recommend that you tuck in because they are tipity top!

Since it is the holidays, I’m going to keep the medical chit chat brief and say that we had a hardcore chemistry based coursework right at the end that proved immensly tricky as I couldn’t -for the life of me- remember what a pKa value was and, indeed, what a Ka value was! It was horrendous! I had to get my chemistry student flatmate to explain it to me and even he seemed puzzled for some time! Lol. I also had a mock clinical exam, which went quite well I reckon. There were only six stations and it was quite informal making it educational and fun. The dynamic duo that so frequently defines Glasgow University-based education. But that’s all over now so on to better things!

Just before the end of term, me and some friends hit the Bellahouston dry mat ski slope. Originally, it was just going to be me -a boarder- and my flatmate -a pro skiier- going to do the freestyle mat, where, under his guidance, I was going to attempt to get to grips with some rails and jumps etc. However, in the end, we invited one of our Malaysian friends to come along as he was desperate to learn to board and we thought “Why not!?”. I spent the first hour or so helping teach him how to board and use a tow then split and went off to join my flatmate on the freestyle mat. Now, can I just say, as cliched as it is, I went into this with the mentality of “how hard can it be?”. From the numerous bruised and 3 barred fingers, “Very” evidently. Though they were only wimpy jumps, it had been 3 years since I’d last done jumps and I fell……..quite a lot……….and then some more. Still, on the bright side, I fell nowhere near as much as my Malaysian friend, who actually texted me and flatmate that evening to inform us that his behind was a solid mass of purple. Lovely. After some time and much ski-speak (DUDE!!! THAT WAS SICK!!! etc.) later, and I was a self-proclaimed pro…..at the tiny jump. But hey, who’s judging!?

To be honest, I haven’t really been up to much since the holidays began other than sight-seeing in Wales and studying a bit.

I shall speak to you all next term and hope the Easter bunny was good to you!

Ta ta!

February!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Isn’t it exciting!?

February. Otherwise known as the month where my entire life disappeared into a sea of hazy nights in the library propped up on masses of coffee mixed with red bull and pro plus (I’m still shaking right now; YEEEEEEHHHHAAAAAA). It’s fairly safe to say that although it’s been a good one, it’s been one hell of a hard one.

Where do I start? I guess I should probably talk about all the medicine-related stuff first shouldn’t I? It’s probably the most relevant. Basically, since the start of February I was doing my Student Selected Component (SSC – 5 weeks where I got to choose what I did instead of follow a cirriculum; I did “understanding autoimmune and inflammatory disease”) and my god it was good to have a break from the rigours of everyday life in PBL etc. That said, it was seriously hard work as we had to write a 3500 word disseration and perform a 15 minutes presentation on new treatments for whatever we’d chosen to do.

Now for all this sounds like it isn’t that bad seeing as we had 5 weeks, amassing the information necessary to have an all out debate over the efficacy of these new treatments. Mainly because there was nothing about most of them in the classic textbooks leaving me thouroughly stumped as to where to look for info. Enter the hours I spent trawling all over the internet searching a seemingly endless number of journals looking for that one study that was relevant. But hey, who said medicine was easy?

Don’t get me wrong, I can honestly say that the SSC was perhaps the best thing I’ve done in medical school yet. We were in for a few lectures on the Monday then spent the rest of the week in clinics with the experts, meaning that we learnt loads about diagnosing and history taking and all that jazz. Moreover, because the clinics we went to were for patients suffering conditions you would rarely see anywhere else, we got to see some majorly cool stuff. But I won’t bore you with the details of that here………Or will I……….? Nah.

Aside from that, the course is going okay. We got our mock exam feedback the other day and I did well so BOO YA!!! Other than that though, nothing really to report. Got told yesterday that we were going to be doing some dissection of the bowels on Friday, and that lab coats were strongly recommended owing to the rather high chance of “splashes”. Quite as to what these “splashes” were, or where they came from was not made clear….. On a completely unrelated note, one of my friends accidentally pierced someone’s colon last year in a dissection and faecal matter exploded onto them. Mmmmmmm.

Outside of medical school I hit Disneyland Paris earlier this month for a weekend away. It was incredibly good fun and I strongly recommend it. Particularly at the beginning of February as it is ridiculously cheap – like, seriously.  It’s also highly entertaining to see all your favourite Disney characters speaking French a) Because you haven’t got a clue what’s going on, and b) Because it sounds so different to the English voice-overs. For clarification purposes here, I’d like to say that it is not the French language that is so funny, but rather my complete ineptitude to understand it.

Also, the All-Bran Appreciation Society had a wee outing to Xscape a while back and boy oh boy was it fun. While we’re on the subject here, I’d just like to wish Nigel Chan -the Asian Correspondent/Masterchef of the society- a very happy birthday. Here’s to you Nigel. Mwwwhahahaha.

Alas, nothing more to report than that really.

All the best!!!!

January!!!

Hello!! How was your Christmas!? And, indeed, your New Year!? I had a very quiet festive season and stayed at home with my family; it was lovely. Excitingly, I received a digital camera from my parents for Christmas and have been putting it to good use taking photos of just about everything and anything!! =]

Other than that, everything has been going smoothly this term! We finished Block 9 on the cardiovascular, respiratory and renal systems and have moved on to begin our SSCs. At the end of block 9, we had a mock exam, which was entirely formative. However, I still want to do well and, fingers crossed, it all goes smoothly. At the time, I was really worried it hadn’t gone as well as it could but since when has anyone ever thought otherwise about an exam?
My SSC has been excellent so far though I’ve only been in one week. Me and the 11 other students taking “Understanding Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disease” met the two heads of the SSC on Monday for a few hours where we discussed what we already know, what we were hoping to gain, and how best to do this. So far, my timetable looks amazing. The majority of time is spent in clinics with patients suffering from conditions like Arthritis or Asthma, so we should get some fantastic hands-on experience. Moreover, the tutors have organised numerous lectures from important figures in both research and diagnostics, meaning we’ll be getting loads of theory too! The only slight downside is that we have to write a 3500 word dissertation by the end of the 5 weeks on any of the new treatments for these conditions. I’ve spent most of the week researching via journal websites such as nature and am fairly certain that I wish to write mine on the new anti-IgE antibody treatments for asthma, as, being asthmatic (woop woop!!), I have a personal interest.

Other than that, not much has happened this term as I’ve just been studying mainly. We did receive our coursework results two weeks ago and I passed!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS.

On a side note, I posted a December blog but it appears to be missing….I’ll need to look into that……

Today, I found myself giving 3 students who came for interviews today a tour of the medical school. One was Swedish, one Polish and the other Lithuanian so, to say there were some language barriers was to seriously underappreciate the situation. Just kidding, they all spoke phenomenal English so it was all good. However, they did ask some serious questions about the best and worst things in Glasgow. Indeed, one of them even asked me what the admissions process was like for Edinburgh medical school…….I was just like “em, different to the one at Glasgow!!! Next question!?”

I also saw Avatar yesterday. Now, I don’t know about you lot, but when I saw it I was like “Pocahontas anyone?”

I’ve recently joined a study group with some of my friends so hopefully that will be fun and educational. It’s a win win situation!!!

Not really that much to report other than that! Hope you’re all having a blast!!!

Peace out!!!

Movember

Dear All,

How excited are you!? It’s December and only 22 days until christmas!! YEAH!!! I have a tree in my flat and everything!!!

In other news though, life at the med school continues as always; with much PBL and many a lab. On the bright side, it’s all coming together now. Well, sort of. All the staff talk about this “spiral of learning” and they’re right! In the last two blocks I’ve done, there’s been at least 3 PBLs which I pretty much covered last year by going into too much detail. So all that hard work in first year is finally paying offl; it’s brilliant! Moreover, as we go over things again I’m beginning to see all of these connections between the different subjects and systems we’ve studied. It’s like we got the framework for a big web in first year and have only just begun to fill it out on the inside.

We got another coursework a few weeks back. It was on Parkinson’s and dopamine pathways etc. It was really quite interesting to me as my family -blessed as they are- have a history of pretty much every medical condition known to man. Accordingly, my grandma suffered from both Alzheimers and Parkinson’s so I found it really interesting. That’s another thing I love about medicine. Because it relates to people, something can suddenly become more real and you find yourself drawn into the work as opposed to forced into it for the sake of passing an exam. It’s actually your interest that fuels your learning; it’s just fantastic!!! So, fingers crossed that went okay.

Outwith medicine, The All Bran Appreciation society is around one-two weeks away from being granted official Glasgow University Affiliation and as such, we are currently in the process of producing hoodies for our members; it’s really quite exciting!!! I also applied to become a student enquirer; a job that would have involved interviewing staff and students within my faculty about what skills they believe it is important for a student to develop. Alas, I did not get it but did make the first reserve!! Woop woop!!!

The mini-basketball league I run with my friends is also taking off and we’re even thinking of boosting it up to twice a week. Alas, we’re uncertain we’ll have the numbers but figure we can always boost them with some medics. That’s another pro about being a medic. When you need more people for ANYTHING, because there’s such a sense of camaraderie within the med-school, all you need do is ask like one person “do you know anyone that could come?” and before you know it there’s like 20!!

Anyway, I need to head off to vocational studies now as I’m a bit late and we’re learning many clinical skills now!!!

This may be my last post before christmas so I wish you all a very merry Christmas!!!!