http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/uws Because nobody listens to us in real life Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:43:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some days I'm up before I strictly have to be. It gives me time to sit on Queen street (our main street) in a coffee shop for a few hours with a morning coffee or two and a copy of The Australian. I did exactly that last Thursday and came ... http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/uws/2010/04/anatomica/ var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-15184618-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {} The imposter syndrome is well described in medical students. It has been identified in some rather eminent Med Ed journals at least as early as the 1990's and something with which ... http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/uws/2010/03/look-out-its-an-impostor/ ?Narcolepsy, for those not regularly in hospitals, reads 'Query Narcolepsy', and it means Nacoloepsy might be going on but you can't be certain at that moment in time.... apparently this is me at the moment. See, I have this thing where unless I'm directly engaged in a discussion I will ... http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/uws/2010/03/narcolepsy/ The less said about my trip to Adelaide the better, I ended up as a delirious inpatient in Royal Adelaide so it wasn't exactly the highlight of my life. But I'm only on orals now,  both for abx and pain, off crutches have be discharged and started my Oncology rotation ... http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/uws/2010/03/meeting-the-first-years/ Tomorow I leave for Adelaide for the first AMSA council of the year. Should be a good four or five days, I'm a bit bummed to miss the first (orientation) day of my oncology rotation though. I rarely arrive home to mail, and when I do it's usually just bank statements ... http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/uws/2010/02/bound-for-south-australia/ In fourth year a part of our professional and personal development is a reflective learning journal.  I thought you guys might be interested in reading my entry this week out of both (hopefully) interest in the content and academic curiosity for our curriculum. *** This week just past has been my first ... http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/uws/2010/02/a-whole-nother-world/ A debate which resurfaces perennially in Medsocs across the country relates to the somewhat strained relationships between medical students and alcohol. On the one hand medical students, to my mind, though I'm sure some would beg to differ, constitute a visible part of the medial profession. Our actions and attitudes inform and influence ... http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/uws/2010/02/medical-students-and-alcohol/ These aren't the best moments of 2009,they're just the most memorable. In fact for the entire morning of number 7 I nearly vomited out of anxiety, number 6 I wanted to crawl into a ball and die. Number 3 was surprisingly ok. 10.) The first time I used a scalpel (for removing buried ... http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/uws/2010/02/my-10-most-memorable-moments-of-2009/ This entry was originally posted in my personal blog but I thought it might be of interest here as well: So, I totally just had my first day in the special care nursery. Pretty action packed. Well, not all that action packed actually.... but, you know, really good. I'm enjoying Paediatrics ... http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/uws/2010/02/baby-medicine-first-day/ I'm told (though I've never actually met one) that there are actually people who believe that those older than us, or more qualified, or further up the career ladder should always be respected and unquestionable in all matters of life by default. I'm certainly not one of them. But I ... http://www.medstudentsonline.com/blogs/uws/2010/02/respect-for-elders/