Career
Sharing experiences and lessons on my career journey.
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What is public health?
I thought I knew the correct answer to this until I started researching alternate careers for my personal journey and Doctors Without Steths. Somewhere in my head, public health was health education, disease prevention with a good serving of epidemiology, dasall. I really don’t know where I got this idea from, probably because I equated it with community health for the longest time
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Intern year: Finding the balance
The medical internship year is usually associated with lots of stress and it can be quite tiresome. Sometimes people even say you should just dedicate that whole year to being in the hospital all the time which can be quite frustrating, especially when you have other things to attend to. In today’s post, some medical doctors share their experiences with combining being medical interns and still having a life outside the hospital – from running a business to destressing and enjoying life to the fullest. I’m certain you’d gain a thing or two from their experiences, which can also be applied to other aspects of life. Enjoy! Elizabeth… …is a…
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INTERNING FAR FROM HOME; THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE IN-BETWEEN.
It’s usually not a very easy decision to work away from your loved ones, even if it’s only for a year. I know this first hand as I had to complete my internship year away from loved ones and familiar faces/environments. It wasn’t an easy decision to make and I considered quitting a couple of times, but I made it through regardless. I’m not alone in this – I know a couple of people who had to go through something similar, moving to different states for their intern year. I decided to reach out and ask them to share their experiences and they obliged to share. Anita… …is a medical…
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Lessons from housejob
I’ve finally completed my housejob year. 🥳🥳 When I left Lagos to Ondo last year, it seemed like a journey so far away but as with everything in life, it all comes to an end at some point. At the start of 2018, I never would have thought that I’d find myself living outside of Lagos for a year. But that’s exactly what happened! And in retrospect, I’m glad that I didn’t accept the offer to move back to LUTH when I got the employment text then. This is not to say I never nursed the idea of staying back, or even wished I could be in Lagos even when…
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Housejob Chronicles|| Rounding up Medicine
4 of 4!!! Can you palpate my excitement through this post? You should be able to. I’m officially done with Housejob; no longer a house officer, now a medical officer. 😁😁 #Justlikeyesterday I’ve documented the journey so far here on the blog. I’d share a post on my overall experience and lessons throughout this year in a different post, shortly after this. Internal medicine is a sub-speciality of medicine which deals with the diagnosis, medical treatment and care of adults. In medical school, medicine was actually my best posting. Not in terms of grades or ‘stuff’, but because things there seemed a bit more straightforward than other departments. You could…
