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On getting a housemanship placement
Welcome back to my space. š So in my last post, I wrote about how I occupied myself post-graduation/pre-housemanship. This post is about how I got my housemanship placement in a place I never would have thought of. I started my housemanship programme in October 2018, about 3 months after I was officially inducted into the medical profession and roughly 6 months after writing (and passing!) my final professional exam in medical school. At the beginning of 2018, I never would have imagined myself doing my housemanship anywhere outside of Lagos, specifically LUTH. At some point before my induction, I got wind of another place other than LUTH to complete…
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Post graduation: What now?
This post is about my post-graduation/pre-housejob experience and how I was able to keep myself busy all those long months. I sat for (and passed!) my final professional examinations in medical school in April 2018. As with many other students, both medical and otherwise, it was such a relief to FINALLY be done with school – all the late night reading, exams and waiting anxiously for results to come out. Even though a lot of older colleagues will always say things like ājust the beginningā, āreading never endsā and all the other similar stuff, at that moment, it was just enough to know that I was done with that phase…
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What I learnt from my time offline.
Earlier this year, I decided to take some time āofflineā. I didn’t completely go off the grid, what I did was more of a social media detox – I logged out of my Instagram and Twitter accounts (as those are the major social media platforms that I am active on). I also initially deleted my WhatsApp and later re-installed but turned off notifications and moved it off my home-screen to a hidden corner of my phone. So I was reachable majorly via phone calls and text messages. This ‘hiatus’ lasted 10 days. My goal this period wasnāt to cut me off from the rest of the world but to reduce…
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On starting new things
For a really long while, I fantasized about having my own personal space on the net where I get to share stuff. Although the idea sounded exciting, I initially wondered what exactly Iād post about. You see, I like to write, mostly for my personal consumption, although I shared some publicly once in a while. But when it came to writing on my own blog space, I couldnāt figure out what to write; will it be short stories or poems? What exactly will I post? I didn’t think there was anything interesting that I’d want to share, I also wasnāt a fashion enthusiast (I still am not) so a lifestyle…
