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How to Prepare for Your Internship Application
For many final year medical students, the upcoming internship applications are the first ever experience you will have applying for a full-time vocational job. Apprehension, stress, impatience, and even a touch of excitement are very normal emotions to feel throughout...
Toughen Up – Tough Love or Bullying in Medicine?
A senior medical student ponders when does tough love blur into bullying territory? Is it used to excuse bad behaviour or can it push us to be more resilient? The registrar was getting ready to close the patient on the operating table and asked if I wanted to scrub in...
From First Year to Final Year: What I Learnt With Hindsight
At the end of their medical degree, a medical student looks back on the vital lessons one can only see with hindsight.It was 7:50am, I was packing my belongings into my locker in the common room before the 8:00am ward round, when I noticed two women off to my right...
Please Don’t Complain to Me About the Eating Disorder Patient. I Was One
A medical student reflects on their own experience of an eating disorder and mental illness to help medical professionals better understand how to treat their illness, as well as offer support for fellow medical students and doctors who also experience these...
Work Like a Greyhound, Not an Elephant: How to optimise your study
A typical greyhound spends between 16 and 22 hours sleeping. But when they come off the leash, they can hit speeds of 70 kilometres per hour. Elephants in the wild sleep only two to four hours per night. When awake, they don’t move nearly so fast as their lazy...
Doctors Who Code: How Embracing Healthtech Enhanced My Career
A growing number of doctors and medical students are melding IT and medicine to create healthtech solutions that understand both worlds to create more efficient, effective and accessible healthcare.Ever since Dr Josh Case was child he has been enamoured with the world...
Becoming a Doctor at a Time of Reckoning with Gender Inequality and Safety
In the wake of the recent Women’s March 4 Justice and ongoing Reclaim the Streets protests calling for women’s basic human rights to safety, non-discrimination, and an end to gender-based violence, it is time to revisit our own backyard. The recent revelations that...
What Makes a Great Surgical Intern?
In Victoria the intern year consists of five 10-week rotations, with compulsory rotations of at least one surgical, medical and emergency terms. For those changing over to a surgical term, I thought I would share what makes a great surgical intern from the point of...
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Work Like a Greyhound, Not an Elephant: How to optimise your study
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