Scott’s Spiel

I got an email yesterday replying to an enquiry about spending my 3rd year (junior) elective in the Southern General Accident and Emergency Department. Happily I’m all booked up for July next year! Why that choice?

A&E because:

• It may actually be my future career. May be nice to get some experience as early as possible.
• I will see a variety of people, hopefully consolidating a lot of what I’ve learned already and will learn by the end of 3rd yr.
• It’s not an area that we’ll cover in the course for a while (if at all?)
• It’s a busy place and I’ll hopefully be able to get involved at some level

The Southern becase:

• I know where it is!
• I can live in the area without spending too much money. I can save more for my senior elective (where i’ll probably go abroad).
• It’s a busy hospital, lots to do
• It even has a helipad (the only one in Glasgow).
• Probably a few more.

So, basically, if anyone is planning on being injured near the Southern in July 2009 (I’m sure people plan it…) then you might just see me looking after you.

…I feel your pain.

I meant to post this yesterday, but I’ve become quite interested in WordPress that it slipped my mind a bit. Plus, I had to leave not long after the results came out (which they didn’t until about 5:30pm!).

In the big picture, I’m now in 3rd year :D! While this is kind of all that really matters at the end of the day, I was a little bit disappointed with the results. I felt it had went better than it obviously did, which I don’t like. That said, a number of people have failed that I really would’ve expected so in a way I’m being a bit unfair moaning at my pass.

Either way, it’s now ever and I can plan things like electives. Oh, and I can work non-stop apparently. Rejoice.

Two weeks this very day I will have finished the first paper of year two. I have jumped my revision into what I’d describe as 4th gear. Yesterday I managed to kill my personal record for revising in the SL - a whole 14 hours. Unfortunately this is probably a bit of an overestimate as I do need to eat, excrete and not forgetting procrastinate. I remain worryingly confident that all will be well. Even today, as I glanced over my least favourite of the blocks (gastro), I feel that come two weeks I will still be smiling - perhaps a little nervously.

At the moment I’ve been spending far too long looking at electives for the coming years - this assuming I will pass. Ideally, I’d love to spend my third year (junior) elective with the HEMS team in London and my senior one somewhere abroad. Unfortunately the competitiveness might be too much for me and I’m not generally too lucky. Still, it’s worth an email, I just want to wait till my exam results are in. I can’t really work out plans for my senior one until I know whether I will be intercalating or not. This is a big decision, probably bigger than it should be, and I’m still on the fence. I don’t even know whether I’d be allowed or not.

Three weeks today an I will have finished my first training session as a phlebotomist. Yes, I finally got some news. Apparently there was much of a mess up with recruitment and a few people have been having problems. The date is provisional, which is a bit of a problem come trying to work out a start date for the Safari Park. Hopefully the two should help avoid a financial hell-hole next year, combined with a much reduced rent.