GUMS Blog
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Dreams: The Science & The Supernatural
It was once said that, “despite 50 years of research, all we can conclude… is that sleep loss makes us ...
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Quarantine: The Antidote to My Imposter Syndrome
It was a hot June evening. I was at the American Surgery Association conference to present my graduate research work ...
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How to Study for 8 hours in Med School and Learn NOTHING
I’m sure you’ve all been halfway through an unproductive weekend and found yourself so guilty on the Sunday that you ...
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My Third Year Experience: The Non-Clinical (But Still Important) Learning I’ve Done
It is difficult to wrap my head around the fact that I have completed half of third year. While my ...
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Wellbeing Stories: Beyond Medical School
For Blue Week this year, we asked people at different stages of their journey through medicine to share their wellbeing ...
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Wellbeing Stories: Year 3+4
For Blue Week this year, we asked people at different stages of their journey through medicine to share their wellbeing ...
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Wellbeing Stories: Year 2
For Blue Week this year, we asked people at different stages of their journey through medicine to share their wellbeing ...
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Wellbeing Stories: Year 1
For Blue Week this year, we asked people at different stages of their journey through medicine to share their wellbeing ...
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The Stitches of Final Year
There’s something meditative about suturing. Positioning the first bite, puncturing the tattered skin and fascia, pronating your wrist to feed ...
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You were not the Imposter
If you’ve been on the internet or social media at any point in the past year or so, you’re probably ...
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Boxing: My Saviour
My journey with boxing began about a year ago and with it came some major life changes. All for good, ...
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Luck vs Hard Work
The first thing they tell you when you get into medicine is that you are studying with the best of ...
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Making Memories in Kingaroy
I’m not an outdoorsy kinda gal. I like having access to everything I need right outside my doorstep and the ...
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Reflections on Starting First Year
With the newly minted first year cohort finishing their first week, it got us thinking about what it was like ...
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That “Other” Kind of Needle: Body Modifications and the Burgeoning Medical Professional
If I was important enough to have a memoir in the future, it would probably be titled “Tattoos and Stethoscopes: ...
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My Men’s Mental Health Story
Story 1 One of the biggest challenges I've faced with my mental health is undoubtedly the image of men needing ...
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Representing men and their emotions: Media that goes beyond stereotypes
While there may be a lot of representation of men in media, it can often rely on outdated stereotypes consisting ...
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How Brooklyn Nine-Nine challenges and redefines men in comedy
While the 2020 Griffith Med Revue, Broke Limb Nine-Nine, may have closed its curtains for the last time on Saturday ...
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8 fun ways to improve your suturing skills
One of the most attractive aspects of medicine as a career is an intellectually stimulating and hands-on work environment. I ...
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MY WELLBEING STORY: YEAR 3, 4 + BEYOND
This Blue Week, we asked people at different stages in their medical career, to share their personal Wellbeing Stories unique ...
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MY WELLBEING STORY: YEAR 2
This Blue Week, we asked people at different stages in their medical career, to share their personal Wellbeing Stories unique ...
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MY WELLBEING STORY: YEAR 1
This Blue Week, we asked people at different stages in their medical career to share their personal Wellbeing Stories unique ...
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My Quarantine Podcast Addictions
My days are kind of like the cell cycle; G0 = sleep; G1 = training; S1 = uni; G2 = ...
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My caffeine free journey
For as long as I can remember, I’ve always loved tea and coffee. I would always have a stash of ...
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A perfectly imperfect way to a perfectly balanced imbalance
Balance. It’s the word on everyone’s mind these days. From diet and exercise to career advice, the word ‘balance’ is ...
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Birtinya in quarantine
Quarantine is a really weird time, made even weirder by living on the already very laidback Sunshine Coast. In the ...
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Awkward encounters and other fun things I like to think about…
We’ve all been there – you wake up on the right side of bed, the sun is shining, birds are ...
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What to do with all your Quarantime
Staying at home in your PJs starts to lose its charm a bit as you remember the days spent socialising ...
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Summer at Stanthorpe
Nothing is more rural than having your car towed because a kangaroo jumped in front of it. But let’s rewind ...
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Lauren Swan: master of the ‘work-life balance’
Every medical student has been asked by family, friends, strangers on the tram, what we think we want to specialise ...
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‘This is Going to Hurt’
I hate flying. The cramped economy seating, the strong musty smell of pre-packaged plane food and the incessant crying from ...
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Welcome to Year 1!
The idea that a message has the power to make your tummy turn dates back as far as the OG ...
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52 Thoughts I Have While Doing LOs
Okay, let’s do some LOs! I’ll even draw them all out and learn them this week! Let me just quickly ...
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Cardio… Is that Spanish?
Beyoncé once said, "I love my butter pecan ice cream, but I also love to work out”. While I agree ...
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My Wellbeing Story: YEAR 3, 4 + BEYOND
This Blue Week, we asked people at different stages in their medical career, to share their personal Wellbeing Stories unique ...
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My Wellbeing Story: YEAR 2
This Blue Week, we asked people at different stages in their medical career, to share their personal Wellbeing Stories unique ...
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My Wellbeing Story: YEAR 1
This Blue Week, we asked people at different stages in their medical career to share their personal Wellbeing Stories unique ...
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The Awkward Tales of a Medical Student
The medical student is a creature of habit. Every morning, it wakes up, hoping that today will be a productive ...
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Perspective: How we see things becomes our truth
The P word. Perspective, defined as ‘a particular attitude towards or way of regarding something; a point of view.’ This ...
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Stanthorpe, Wine and Clinical Skills
The sun comes up; it’s a new day dawning. Together with six cars full of friends we set off to ...
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Bachelor in PBL
Gary Oldman once said, “Reality TV, to me, is the museum of social decay”. While I couldn’t agree more, I ...
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Straight Outta Southport
Remember your first comm skills session? The brief was: “Have a conversation”. I didn’t think this would be a problem ...
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I Broke Up With a Boy… Using SPIKES
…and it was the best break up I’ve ever had. I’ve grown up on a steady entertainment diet of Taylor ...
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Women Beyond the Kitchen
Last Friday I had the pleasure of hearing three inspiring women talk about their incredible journeys through the field of ...
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The time we all got diarrhoea
18 metres from a public toilet and my friend is defecating in a bush. She’s got her face buried in ...
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30 Second Dance Party
Worrisome thoughts seem to come in convenient packages. Just this week, I sat in DLEPP lectures about public disclosure and ...
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So now you are in Med School…
I still remember the feeling I had when I opened the email that confirmed my place in the Medicine program ...
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Murmur October 2018 – Official GUMS student magazine
Welcome to the October 2018 issue of the official Griffith University Medicine Society student magazine - we hope you enjoy! ...
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Your eyebrows look a little bushy
When you think of the period before exams, what phrases do you think of? Maybe, “I’m running out of time!!” ...
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Thoughts on “Do No Harm”…
Henry Marsh’s memoir, Do No Harm, is a book that’s likely been on every medical student’s reading list at some ...
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5 Podcasts You Should Really Be Plugging Into
The daily grind of dragging yourself to G40, trying not to fall asleep in lectures, contorting your body during labs ...
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5 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With A Degree in Medicine
"Medical students tend to tunnel vision towards clinical practice, but some of us may not be suited for it." “What ...
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AMSA Council 2 Report
Griffith’s tradition of Hawaiian Fridays morphed into Tropical Thursday for AMSA Council 2, held in Townsville from the 29th of ...
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AMSA Council 1 Report
In April, GUMS sent five representatives to AMSA Council 1. AMSA Council is held three times a year, and is ...
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Humans of Griffith Medical School
Sometimes it's easy to think that all medical students are the same and spend all day studying. But everyone has ...
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