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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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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.
