It’s been an interesting week. Tuesday I spent a few hours in Accident & Emergency which I really enjoyed. Was expecting it to be quite unorganised but instead it was probably the most organised visit so far. Unfortunately, accidents and emergencies don’t often fit the schedules of visiting medical students so we didn’t see anything terribly interesting. I’m happy though that the visit didn’t manage to stroke it off my list of possible specialities.
Wednesday was back to proper work. We had a histoloy lab in the morning which, although informative, was dreadfully boring. This was followed a few hours later by a computer exercise about membrane signals. Again it was good information and since I was learning it myself it was a little bit less mundane. We took a large trip (spent 2 hours!) to ASDA in Govan. Whilst on the way, we managed to get a shout out on Sunny Govan Radio. Well worth listening to if you’re feeling bored! My flatmate managed to fit into a 11yr olds top which was a bargin at £2.25. Slightly worrying though that it doesn’t look too bad.
Thursday we met our new PBL group which turned out to be a really good group. Our facilitator however appeared quite (well…very) rude and didn’t even tell us her name (so no need for confidentiality!). Apart from that, I was very impressed (and a little worried) with the volume of knowledge everyone had - clearly I’ve got some reading to do. Managed to phone the other name I had for phlebotomy but unfortunately didn’t get anything new so I’m still playing the waiting game. In the evening we had a 21st birthday to celebrate which we spent at the Hive. It was better than I expected and stayed a bit later (and drunk a bit more) than I should have for my 9am lab on Friday. When I eventually did go home I spent another 30min talking to my flatmate about next year…which we still haven’t organised (sigh!).
So I had to wake up after a few hours and face the 3hr lab on Friday morning. It could’ve been worse, but it also could’ve been a whole lot better. At least the staff in these labs are friendly in comparison to Tuesday. The lab consisted mainly of testing different carbohydrates with Benedict’s and checking which were digested. Not exactly something we hadn’t done before many, many times.
Now I’m looking at the good weather and get to look forward to revision in the sun…
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