medical student life Archives - THE ROVING DOCTOR

Added on February 4, 2020 Fifth Year , Discovering

Great Expectations

V.I.IV GREAT EXPECTATIONS It was full steam ahead. Interview, check. January exams, check. Only one semester to go and I’d be a fully-fledged doctor. Sure, there’d be some bumps on the road, but if everything went according to plan, it would be smooth sailing or something close to it. Becoming a surgeon had been my goal all along. I knew […]

Added on June 25, 2019 Fourth Year , Reason

The Brightest Month

IV.I.VII THE BRIGHTEST MONTH A few months before enrolling into my penultimate year, Momma Bear and I applied for a medical elective in the UK as part of a programme offered by the University of Cambridge. Somehow, some way, we both got accepted into the same programme. Of course, this wasn’t exactly a valorous feat. Applications were on a first […]

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 […]