Hello to all my avid readers (haha). I must first apologise for the lack of posts as of late, but it turns out finishing off an e-learning resource alongside trying to pack up all my belongings to move out of a flat takes up quite a bit of time, and something had to be set aside. Unfortunately it was the blogging that I had to give up on until such a time as I could write something both meaningful and appropriate for the stage I am at. I'm just annoyed because I really found myself enjoying blogging and am worried that the slight interruption between exam results and moving out may have caused me to lose my 'flow' and has shown me what else I could be doing in my free time. And this is one of the issues, free time in the next two years apparently is going to become something of a rarity. I have felt quite fortunate that these first three years I have had a surprising amount of free time, which in my own opinion I squandered and as a result maybe haven't performed to the greatest of my abilities in exams, but I've still gotten by, however I don't know how I will manage to continue blogging on top of all my other responsibilities of 4th and 5th year. I think it will be something that I will continue to try and keep up with because it genuinely is something that I have enjoyed doing and will more than likely continue to enjoy doing.
Technically the name of this post isn't totally correct, because at this stage I should really be finished with my project but alas I still have to submit it before I can say I have successfully reached the end.
I am a bit disappointed that I haven't managed to complete my project 100% there are a few issues surrounding the patient scenarios in that the pictures used do not have a creative commons license and therefore are only there as a placeholder. Until this is rectified the resource cannot be made public which I am quite annoyed at. It was due to my lack of planning however that this has occurred, my plan was to create this scenario in clinical skills and have a realistic patient scenario set up within the tutorial, but unfortunately the final year OSCEs and nursing OSCEs were on during the last two weeks of the SSC and I was unable to get this organised.
I would quite like to get this rectified as quickly as possible, but unfortunately cannot get this managed until after I start back in July. So my learning resource will have to remain in limbo until then, not really how I wanted to end the SSC, but at least I took an invaluable lesson in planning and time management from this.
I also learned not to leave all the most dull and tedious parts until the very end. I found myself running out of steam towards the end of the SSC and not because it was the end of the year and summer was fast approaching, but more because I had already finished doing all the parts of my project that I was having the most fun doing and had purposely ignored the parts I wasn't looking forward to because, well honestly I really didn't want to do them at all. But that just made the last few days even harder because it turns out you work a lot more slowly when you are working on things you don't really want to be working on. Plus even if that weren't the case, the parts that I had left myself to do actually turned out to be the most time consuming parts anyway. This made for a very frustrating and boring final week and all that on top of the packing and moving made for a very cranky Michael to say the least.
But 4 days of solid work with all the lessons learned from our Friday presentations on design taken on board and by Friday the 29th of May I had basically finished my project after a half hour stent in the recording studio trying my hardest to clearly pronounce 'recurrent febrile non-haemolytic transfusion reactions' without sounding too as we say here in Ireland 'culchie'. Now never before had I been referred to as 'culchie', which is a term used to describe those from an agricultural background here in Ireland and a great example of how they sound is here.
But after eventually getting it as clear as possible I had completed my learning resource to as close to finished as I could manage without my scenario picture.
We had one final presentation to prepare for our final day and for this we had to list five main things we learned during the SSC, and here is me at my fifth birthday party with my 5 badge to show my 5 things I have learned.
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| Me at my 5th Birthday Party |
Here you will find my presentation given on Friday with all that I have learned.
And now that I have finished moving back home, and had my second root canal treatment finished I am now ready to submit my work and finish my blog.
I must say now it has been a great experience over the past 4 weeks and +Natalie Lafferty mentioning the opportunity for us to write an article and possibly get published sounds very exciting to me as the idea of that hadn't even crossed my mind.
I really think the skills I have learned over the past 4 weeks are ones that I will take with me throughout my entire career in medicine regardless of what field I go into, and I hope that I can continue to try and produce learning resources that may benefit other students both throughout my last 2 years at medical school and throughout my career as a doctor.
Third Year Medical Student
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