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My Notion Setup for 3rd Year of Medical School
I’ve always been an extensive planner. I’m that person with the gorgeous, colour-coded revision timetable that doesn’t even remotely get followed and only has the purpose of making it look like I know what I’m doing. I just find it so therapeutic, the process of thinking through and categorising and preparing. Never mind the fact …
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Typing Feels Louder than Speaking
I have written and deleted multiple versions of this blog post because even when typing feels louder than speaking, I don’t know if I can always find the words that really reflect what I want to say. Regardless, this has been the thread running through my life at the moment: my voice has been taking …
Frontline Forces and Humanitarian Medicine
I recently had the good fortune of being able to attend an online conference held by the Friends of the David Nott Foundation society at my university. It was based on the topic of MDT on the Frontline and besides the event being hugely successful and inspiring, both in terms of content approached and the …
The Jump from Preclinical Medicine to Clinical Medicine
I have alluded to the vast differences in life during third year, as compared to the first two years of university, in my previous posts but now is the time to delve into the nitty gritty details of third year. I know this comes on the background of weeks of inactivity on my blog, after …
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A Weekend in my Life
Hi guys! Hope you’re all doing well. I didn’t write a blog post last week which was the first time in months that I’ve strayed from this routine, but I just ended up so busy over the last weekend with so much stuff on my plate that it got too difficult. A common theme in …
Is Blogging A Dying Art?
My Blogging Journey I started my blog in February 2018 so we’re up to over two and a half years of its existence. Although it has changed a lot over this time, including multiple rebrands and changes in content type, I feel like it has always been something I do purely for myself, my own …
Birthday Reflections
Hi everyone! Hope you’re all doing well, excelling in every aspect of your life. This is going to be a very freestyle piece of writing with no semblance of a plan, just some stuff I want to reflect on and summarise in words. I feel like I do some kind of yearly reflection every single …
A Week of Med School: Introduction to Clinical Learning
Hi friends, hope you’re all doing well! I thought I’d document this week of university since it was a good mixture of different things I’ve been doing. We’ve not yet started our official placements for this year, so these first four weeks are mainly just to start becoming acclimatised to the wards (we go on …
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Seasonal Reset: How to Make the Colder Months a Bit Brighter
Some people prefer the cosiness of winter, while others prefer the freedom of summer. Me, I would place myself firmly in the latter camp and I really kind of dread the coming of winter because I would rather be outside in the sun, as opposed to inside in the snow. Something about the dullness of …
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What I Read Over Summer
I know we’re in October already, and I hope that’s a testament to just how much I procrastinate sometimes, because today I wanted to share a few of the books I read over summer. I’m only two months late! I’ll try not to spoil any of the books and just share a little overview, along …
Preparing for Clinical Years
With the start of a new year comes the start of a new organisational system because we all know I spend too much time procrastinating-by-preparation: a fantastic illusion of productivity because you’re still doing something, but it’s questionable whether the time could be spent better doing other things. Maybe something to fire up the neurones …
COVID, Computers & Communication: A Med School Update
Hi guys! Hope you’re all doing well, living your best lives. I can’t believe we’re so deep into September already, time feels like it’s slipping out of my hands nowadays, but recently things have picked up a bit again because I’ve started university for this year. I wanted to give you all an update on …
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8 Apps You Can’t Survive Without in Uni
Technology has come a long way. Nowadays, your smartphone serves any and every purpose you could ever want it to, and I’m sure as technology expands further, there will soon be advancements that we couldn’t even dream of existing. It goes without saying that a phone is one of the most indispensable devices of our …
Never Forget Anything Again: A Student’s Guide to Anki
Anki is one of those apps that has quite a steep learning curve, but once you’ve got it figured out, you wonder how you managed to memorise anything without it. Fortunately for you, I’ve dealt with the steep learning curve (with the help of a few good YouTube videos and two years of experience), so …
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Why Your Brain is Lying to You
This is a message for all of my overthinking friends paralysed with impostor syndrome, doubting their place in the world. I have been there. I wanted this to be a compilation of the lessons that I wish I’d understood and acknowledged when I started my medical degree, but hindsight is always 20/20, right? Wherever you …
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