A Hard Day's Night

Welcome to my first post!

I'm in the states right now teaching human biology to hyped up preteens. Hopefully I have started this soon enough before I go back to hospitals so I can keep this up when I get back.

I want to give people an idea of what life is like as a med student in the UK. I feel as though I should be completely honest as I hope to use some of what I write as the reflective pieces I have to hand in to pass my degree!

Summer Brain Drain:

Yeah I work at a science camp, and yeah I teach some medical type things (and chem this year) but I think I am suffering from serious brain drain. The oxford handbooks which I brought have stayed firmly on the shelf. A friend got a tick bites, I couldn't remember Lyme's disease( I had a teaching session on it like a month ago), I was asked to name a part of the gut which friends had seen on tv and the name totally escaped me. When did I last study the GI tract, oh you know, only three months worth just before I left for the US. The only medicine i've done is watch one episode of grey's anatomy but being at an all boys summer camp for the last 7 weeks, only certain parts of the anatomy stuck in my head...

Should I constantly be studying like many medstudents I know? or is this Brain Drain a vital part to stop my brain popping, will it pop next year when I only have three weeks off?

I have two weeks of no thought left, maybe I will read a page a day, or maybe i'll just keep vegetating, maybe an episode of house at rest hour!