Power without Glory from the desk of kyle
SurgSoc, the fledgling surgical interest branch of our medical student society is holding its very first election for President, clinical campus chairs and the rest of the executive tonight, in about an hours time.
As academic officer last year I had a lot to do with the founding of SurgSoc and it’s a big moment for me, with 3 or 4 good candidates going for all the major positions I’m really hopeful there’ll be a good exec there at the end of it. I got to thinking today, most of the candidates made time to “chat” with me about it this afternoon, about the irony inherent in these elections. Campaigning has been going on for the last few days now but not overtly, candidates approaching individuals chatting about issues related to surgery and trying to get high profile endorsements who would then spread the word further. It’s just so much subtler than the campaigning for the medsoc elections proper. Campaigning isn’t in the form of “hey dude, vote for me”, it’s in the form of abstract discussions about the role of surg soc, philosophical discussions about styles of leaderships, political discussion about the pros and cons of more and less authoratative leadership and the need for constitutions to be flexible. It’s still obvious what the subtext to every one of these conversations is but I guess I was just a little surprised that it was shifted into the subtext at all.
Who would have thought, something surgical being subtle?
Research project has gone well today, more surveys collected, up to 500 or so response with a high 80s percentage response rate. a quick look over the data already collected looks like we’ll get some pretty strong trends, so fingers crossed it’ll be publishable.
Went to the library today to borrow an oncology textbook for my next rotation. Every single one of the general clinical oncology textbooks is borrowed out.
Med students are messed in the head.
Over and out.
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