I remember moaning at the end of CCE 1 that I needed a week off. I guess the universe listened and I ended up with 8 (as far). This weird world is different enough for anyone and for Medicine and indeed other healthcare courses, we have been particularly affected. You can't study medicine, nursing, paramedic … Continue reading Covid Chaos →

Monday I did it ! I reached the end of the first block of teaching. We were due to have another week of peri-op but we decided that we had got as much out of it as we were going to get so decided to use it as an academic week. This meant I had … Continue reading CCE – Specialities Week 10 →

Monday Second to last week of the block ! And a bit of a mix to kick the day off. We have community week this week, so instead of dragging myself to UHCW, I dragged myself to a GP nearby. It was also an odd morning as it was the first time driving to placement. … Continue reading CCE Specialities Week 9 →

Monday Peri-op week begins! That means early rises and long days of standing on my feet. I rolled out of bed at 5:30am and got in for 8:15am ready to begin. We had been assigned theatre 2 and so saw a lot of hernia repairs. We had a short morning as we had teaching on … Continue reading CCE Specialities Week 8 →

Monday Admin and work day today. I wanted to try and get as much of the presentation list done so I didn't have as much pressure the rest of the week. Turns out, I didn't get as much done as I would have liked to but the effort was there! I also got a bit … Continue reading CCE Specialities Week 7 →

Monday Morning off today. Not that I did a huge amount with it. We had ABG training in the afternoon which I was looking forward to as we know the ins and outs of ABG's including how to translate the results (in theory, in practise I'm still second guessing everything) so I was keen to … Continue reading CCE Specialities Week 6 →

Monday Psychiatry week! Well, sorta. Warwick scheduled us with a doctor who was on annual leave so we ended up being passed around. We headed for the caludon centre which is the mental health hospital at UHCW for 9am to meet a consultant who had agreed to take us on for the day. We ended … Continue reading CCE Specialities Week 5 →