Friday, 2 July 2010

No. 001

Not a great name, I'll grant you. The backslashes will make a url and filing posts difficult. And I'm not really sure if the bauhaus font I'm thinking of is quite as trendy as I think it is. They're the three things I want to be good at though. Gas first:

1. Gas.

Passing gas, really. I've spent three years training to be an Emergency Physician (A&E doctor) but the bits of it I really loved were the rotations in anaesthetics and intensive care. Most Emergency Department docs find these the most boring months of their training - they want to be back in the ED, where the action is. I liked the quieter, more structured atmosphere of theatre and ICU, though. After a lot of thinking and talking to experienced and clever people I applied for an anaesthetics training job.

Now that my EM exams and rotations are behind me, I start in Royal Devon and Exeter hospital in the South West of England next month. The first major hurdle is the ‘Primary’ – a word guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of any anaesthetic trainee. A multiple choice question paper and then a clinical exam with a viva a few months later. It hurts really bad, apparently.

So I need to:

- Decide when I’m going to sit it

- Work out how I’m going to revise

Endless excitement awaits me ;)


Well, that's all pretty dry, isn't it? I hope run and surf are going to be more interesting!

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