Aussie-Chinese Girl Reflects on Her Med Practitioner Journey

 First of all, how the fck are we already 10 days into the fcking THIRD MONTH of 2024 and 6 weeks of MD3 has already gone and pass. No jokes, just feeling like I know what's up with O&G and already it's time to move onto another rotation 💀💀💀 guess there's some continuity in content with neonates technically being under paeds but otherwise all new content and ref ranges to learn 😨😨 But I digress and now back to the actual content of this post - REFLECTION! Everyone's fav part of PP what with the Gibb's cycle, how can we not 😆 not no, my brain is not str enough for that, you're just gonna get a very chaotic ver of that today 🙃🤡😚 #1 Don't skimp on sleep - pretty sure this was one of my tips for incoming MD2, but hey, "do as I preach, no as I do"...but no seriously, I had a slap in the face wake up moment just this week. Day 1 bedtime procrastination, just under 6hr sleep - could barely focus on what's going on in hosp, felt sick to t...

Funny how I had more posts during sem than now when I'm on break 😅 (lmao actually been on break since like 2/52 ago, needed this long to recuperate LOL), but now I'm in the mood to reflect on the past year and hopefully demonstrate that things are always not as bad as they seem at the time (yes fr, I know I can't convince you b/c past me defs catastrophized even when I knew I didn't need to....😶)  Challenging lessons learned 1. Avoidance is not the solulu - if you're an avoidant type like me, very sad news indeed - in order to move on and progress, you'll eventually have to face whatever it is that you're avoiding 💀 DISCLAIMER - I have another friend that's the opposite extreme and confronts everything head-on w no regards to if they're mentally capable of handling that load and well, catastrophe as well...so the only viable conclusion is to take a GRADED EXPOSURE APPROACH  2. It's okay to ask for help - sounds super sensible and "no duh...

 Was rudely woken up by my alarm this morning at 8:15am (it’s not even that early cf to when I had to drag my body out of the sweet cocoon of my duvet at 5:50am for surg but still dufkwovjg it’s a Sat) and squirmed in bed for another 22mins before finally rolling gracelessly onto the floor (Cookie was not happy bout that 😅). Honestly think I woke up during REM sleep I was so effing groggy and feeling like jelly but alas I had a gym sesh scheduled w my PT at 9am (yes I have a PT, he eats up 90% of my income 💀). I was so close to just making up an excuse to not go in but I thought I would regret it so I still drove in (IN MY OWN CAR FINALLY!!!!!! Wicheofjvlfjg it was being fixed after someone rear-ended me for like 2 months I swear).  Annoying revelation of the day? Even if my studies are going to shit (last fortnight has not been fun - borderlined my LC exam, hopefully I pass the rest of my exams and just need to resit this one mid Dec / early Jan - series of bad luck and unp...

aweoifjaweoifj I just did my long case exam yesterday morning, now anxiously a/w results to come out tomorrow, but tbh, will not be surprised if need to resit (for several reasons, both personal and external). FYI - long case is an exam style used in BPT (basic physician training) where you have 1 hr w a pt to take a comprehensive hx and o/e, 10ish min to organize your notes and thoughts, then 10ish min to present your findings, imp and issues list to the examiners, then ans their qs for another 10-20mins (or what I like to call "be executed"). @unimelb med school, the examiners are not in the room w u for the first 1 hr, but they've done their own consult for 15mins before you see them, and you're given a list of the pt rx and obs. It is by far the scariest and (in my opinion at least) easiest to fail exam in MD2. It has defs been a thundercloud over my head for the whole year which I've tried my best to ignore (maybe a bit too much...😅) but I've been slappe...

I’m sure y’all have heard about different learning styles, so much so that you probably have ear callouses 💀 BUT hear me out, this is super important in med school, esp transitioning from pre-clin to clin. And imma just focus on two broad category - practical v textbook learner .  First of all, IT’S A PROCESS , a process that took me nearly 2 years to figure out so don’t fret if you feel like you have no idea how to juggle placement time v desktop study time until end of 1st year clin or even beyond. BUT if I could give MD1 me any advice, it would be to actually sit down and think about how I learn best (ugh boring I know but I promise it will save you so much grief later)  Why do I think knowing if you’re a practical or textbook leaner is particularly important for clin years? Cuz you will hear all kinds of advice about how much time to spend in hospital v at home or in a library or wherever you study best. I’ve heard anything from “wish I spent so much less time in hospital...