Start of BST1: a chaotic return to hospital life, battling bureaucracy, onboarding hurdles, and the reality of entering emergency medicine training.
General Surgery – First Day
I begin FY2 in Gozo, trading Malta’s hospital chaos for a slower, smaller system that challenges me to rethink how I work.
END OF FY 1
I finish my first year as a doctor, reflecting on how uncertainty, mistakes and hard-earned confidence shaped the clinician I am becoming.
Orthopaedic Surgery – First Day
I begin my orthopaedics rotation, meet a chaotic new team and discover a surgical world built on speed, strength and bone.
Neurology – First Day
I begin my neurology rotation, trading surgical chaos for calm wards, fascinating patients and a team that feels like home.
Transition
I look back on three chaotic months in emergency surgery and realise how completely I have grown from student into doctor.