More Technological Advances
I'm very excited as I've managed to post links, which involved lots of linking web addresses into meaningless (well, to me anyway) letters and numbers. They are at the right hand side of this thing, and I've posted 3 links. I still have to figure out how to do those URL thingies though, where you click on a link and it goes straight to the website. Ah well, too much, too soon.
One is to the Canberra Hospital and it tells you what goes on there - pretty self-explanatory.
Another is to Naveen's Page - Naveen was one of the SHOs I worked with in Dumfries and has a page which periodically plagiarises Dr. McMahon's entries, interspersed with the odd smattering of Dumfries life.
The 3rd is MJM Wardrounds, which is written by Dr. Mike McMahon, a Consultant Physician/Rheumatologist in Dumfries Infirmary. Memorable for a special mention in the BMJ, this blog replaced most of my Thursday nights (and as these were the Junior Doctor Nights out, was invaluable for my LFTs). For anyone preparing for the MRCP (and indeed, anyone doing General Medicine), I cannot recommend this blog highly enough. It's got some great links and tutorials and Podcasts (where MJM gives tutorials which our computer masks with white noise) and I find it really good, as it makes you focus on one subject closely and you learn it really well. Approximately 5 junior doctors are given a paper to read (usually a medical article written in easy-to-read English)-and a
2 minute tutorial to prepare e.g. Operative intervention in Aortic Stenosis. These are presented during a 30 minute coffee break to MJM and Dr. Jones, one of the other Ward 10 Consultants (both milk, no sugar). As you start speaking, MJM activates a timer which emits a loud 'BEEP, BEEP, BEEP' noise at 2 minutes.
We have Alex, Ian's younger brother with us tonight, who has journeyed up with Ian's Uncle Trev to nick Ian's guitars and is currently drinking him way through our remaining alcohol. I managed to book flights from Sydney to Canberra tonight, so that's another thing sorted.
A worrying development on the MMC front is an email I received from them the NES Head of Communication today, who hinted that we would probably have to fly back from Oz to the UK for any interviews we might have for August 2007, in March/April 2007. This would kind of suck, as a) my family are coming out to see us then b) flights to the UK are not cheap c) it's not the best news to tell the Canberra Consultants, although they all seem really nice and as it's a 1 in 14 (surely that can't be right?) on call, it's still worrying to have to wait until MMC decide to tell us in Feb whether we need to come over or not and not to be able to tell them anything concrete. Still, we're going up to Dundee tomorrow to hang out with various people and on the way, we're stopping off in Edinburgh to see my friend Catriona and her son Oliver, who is 4 weeks old - can't wait.
One is to the Canberra Hospital and it tells you what goes on there - pretty self-explanatory.
Another is to Naveen's Page - Naveen was one of the SHOs I worked with in Dumfries and has a page which periodically plagiarises Dr. McMahon's entries, interspersed with the odd smattering of Dumfries life.
The 3rd is MJM Wardrounds, which is written by Dr. Mike McMahon, a Consultant Physician/Rheumatologist in Dumfries Infirmary. Memorable for a special mention in the BMJ, this blog replaced most of my Thursday nights (and as these were the Junior Doctor Nights out, was invaluable for my LFTs). For anyone preparing for the MRCP (and indeed, anyone doing General Medicine), I cannot recommend this blog highly enough. It's got some great links and tutorials and Podcasts (where MJM gives tutorials which our computer masks with white noise) and I find it really good, as it makes you focus on one subject closely and you learn it really well. Approximately 5 junior doctors are given a paper to read (usually a medical article written in easy-to-read English)-and a
2 minute tutorial to prepare e.g. Operative intervention in Aortic Stenosis. These are presented during a 30 minute coffee break to MJM and Dr. Jones, one of the other Ward 10 Consultants (both milk, no sugar). As you start speaking, MJM activates a timer which emits a loud 'BEEP, BEEP, BEEP' noise at 2 minutes.
We have Alex, Ian's younger brother with us tonight, who has journeyed up with Ian's Uncle Trev to nick Ian's guitars and is currently drinking him way through our remaining alcohol. I managed to book flights from Sydney to Canberra tonight, so that's another thing sorted.
A worrying development on the MMC front is an email I received from them the NES Head of Communication today, who hinted that we would probably have to fly back from Oz to the UK for any interviews we might have for August 2007, in March/April 2007. This would kind of suck, as a) my family are coming out to see us then b) flights to the UK are not cheap c) it's not the best news to tell the Canberra Consultants, although they all seem really nice and as it's a 1 in 14 (surely that can't be right?) on call, it's still worrying to have to wait until MMC decide to tell us in Feb whether we need to come over or not and not to be able to tell them anything concrete. Still, we're going up to Dundee tomorrow to hang out with various people and on the way, we're stopping off in Edinburgh to see my friend Catriona and her son Oliver, who is 4 weeks old - can't wait.
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