becoming a doctor story Archives

Added on February 15, 2022 Foundation Year 2 , Geriatric Medicine

Graduation

II.III.V GRADUATION By early 2022, most COVID-19 restrictions had lifted and, for most people, the pandemic was old news. In hospital, it was anything but. That said, our class was finally given the go-ahead to have a proper, traditional graduation. Over a year before this, we’d had a pretty unofficial and unceremonious graduation – if one could even call it […]

Added on October 20, 2015 First Year , Alive

Starting Line

I.II.III STARTING LINE Picture this. It’s a crisp, sunny September day in 2015 and it also happens to be this fresh-faced idiot’s first day of med school, staring brightly at the battered, dilapidated building that would hold me hostage for the next two years – all full of goals and dreams and aspirations. Aaah – how amazing it all felt! […]

Added on October 6, 2015 First Year , Alive

Anticipation

I.II.I ANTICIPATION My path to getting into medicine? Oof. It was just like a game of Pac-Man. Only the maze was more convoluted, the dots I had to eat were books and Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde were my assignments, exams, anxiety and a feeling of impending doom. In order to get into medicine, I’d need to sit for biology […]