Career
Sharing experiences and lessons on my career journey.
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Housejob Chronicles || Finishing Surgery
By the time you’ll be reading this, I’ll be officially done with the 3rd of 4 compulsory postings in my housemanship year: Surgery. As you’ll know if you’ve followed my housejob journey so far, I completed my first two postings, pediatrics and obs/gyne at the State Specialist Hospital, Ikare-Akoko. I then made a switch to State Specialist Hospital, Akure (now University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital Complex, Akure) to complete the rest of the housejob year. Both hospitals are in Ondo State, Nigeria. On resuming at my new work place, I initially thought that I’d start with Medicine posting and Surgery will be my last, but that was not to…
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Musings || On working as a medical doctor
There's a whole hype about how being a medical doctor is a really tasking job and as a medical doctor myself, I sometimes feel like that hype might be overrated. This experience during my housejob year made me thing differently.
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Being unapologetic about your growth.
One of the reasons why I decided to finally start this blog is to document and share my experiences going through life, along with lessons learnt from them. I find some sort of release in doing this via writing, hence my preference for Twitter over Instagram on my social media list. The most recent experience I had was deciding to change my work place from a rural area to a more urban centre. This might sound like a no-brainer but it wasn’t exactly that for me. I am one to ponder a lot on things, almost to a detrimental level. I used to worry about this part of me in…
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Housejob Chronicles ||O n Chill
As promised in my last post in the housejob chronicles series, I’m posting this just a few days after completely the 2nd of 4 postings in my internship year – Obs and Gyne. I really have gone halfway through my housejob year already. Wow! Time does fly. After spending 12 weeks in pediatrics, I moved to Obstetrics and Gynecology (Obs and Gyne, O and G, O ‘n’ Chill) for another 12-week long posting. Obstetrics and gynecology is the aspect of medicine which deals with health issues peculiar to females. It’s divided into 2 parts – Obstetrics (study of and care for women during the pregnancy period) and Gynecology (study of…
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Housejob Chronicles ||Overcoming pediatrics
Welcome back to my space! 😀 If you have read my about page, you’d know that I am currently carrying out the mandatory 1-year medical internship program and I wrote about how I got my internship placement in a ‘foreign land’ here. Although this post is several months late (pediatrics was the first of 4 postings in the program), I think it’s only right for me to still make a post about my experience. When I was younger, I used to tell anyone who cared to listen that I wanted to become a pediatrician in future. To everyone who I might have said that to, I apologize, I definitely didn’t…
