Part I
Awake
The opening part - identity, family, old ambitions and the slow dismantling of everything I thought I knew.
Memoir of a Med Student · Year I · 2015–2016
First Year
Before medicine felt real
An awakening in more ways than one.
First year began with anatomy and biochemistry, but the more important lessons were about identity, belonging and who I wanted to become.
These entries capture the gap between entering medical school and actually feeling like a medical student - ambition and excitement alongside doubt, reinvention and ideas slowly being dismantled.
I
First year of the memoir
2015
The story begins
2016
The first year closes
II
Second Year comes next
Read Year I
Two parts. One beginning.
Year I is divided into Awake and Alive. Choose a part, then open any entry directly from the chronological reading list.
Part II
Alive
Medicine becomes real as anticipation gives way to friendship, beginnings, disillusionment and the realities of student life.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The complete medical-school journal
Continue beyond Year I.
First Year is the opening part of a five-year coming-of-age story through medical school, relationships, travel, failure and growth.
The first year ended. The certainty did not last.
Continue into a heavier year where medicine grows louder and life beyond university begins to pull the story in unexpected directions.
Continue with Second Year.