Career
Sharing experiences and lessons on my career journey.
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On getting a housemanship placement
Welcome back to my space. đ 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 âjust the beginningâ, âreading never endsâ and all the other similar stuff, at that moment, it was just enough to know that I was done with that phase…
