Sad news

Yes, sad news indeed. I have not done well in my exams at all. In fact, I am required to sit a supplementary exam in March, 2009 in order to graduate.

After a few days of shell-shocked helplessness, I have decided this is not the end of the world. I did not feel overly confident in my skills anyway. This gives me a second chance, and the motivation to not just succeed, but do well.

If all goes well, I will graduate before June, and join the June/July intake of interns. If all goes extremely well, I'll end up at Liverpool Hospital (which I'm told is likely anyway), and I'll only have lost 6 months.

So, yeah. It sucks, but it's not the end of the world.

2nd Exam Done!

Yay! I've finished my viva voce exam, which was the exam I was most petrified of. A massive weight has been lifted off my shoulders, but I fear it will not fully lift until I find out that I passed. Ah, well ... back to procrastinating...

Exams!

Oo, while I'm posting, I have finished my first exam! I think it went fairly well. I have my viva exam (where I answer questions about management of various conditions) next Thursday (the 2nd), and if that goes well, I will be happy, because the last exam (multi-choice questions) will not need much preparation.

So ... yay!

Medical school sucks

For all you bright-eyed bushy-tailed people straight out of school who want to save lives, and cure cancer, and make lots of money like those hot people on Gray's and ER ... No.

It's just not like that at all. Real medicine is hard, and degrading, and gritty, and policital, and nothing like the TV.

As you might guess from the title and the bitterness in this post, I'm preparing for my exams which are in about a week's time (probably what I should be doing rather than posting here ...), and I'm really really sick of it. Being a med student is a really humbling thing. Back in school, I was really good at being smart, and good at music, and I actually felt like I was "best" at some small things. In med school, you are treated like dirt, constantly reminded that you don't know anything, don't know how things work, aren't getting paid, and so on. It's ... depressing.

Still, on the bright side, hopefully I will pass my exams, and drunken hilarity will ensue, and my return to tabletop gaming will too.