medical school

  • Cardio… Is that Spanish?

    Cardio… Is that Spanish?

    Beyoncé once said, “I love my butter pecan ice cream, but I also love to work out”. While I agree with Queen Bey about the ice cream, I don’t think I’ve ever used “love” and “workout” in the same sentence, unless it’s “I love to not work out”. Yes, I am well aware that…

  • My Wellbeing Story: YEAR 3, 4 + BEYOND

    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 to the current context of their medical careers. Through various stages of medicine, we all face our own unique challenges and although it may sometimes feel like we are all alone or the only…

  • My Wellbeing Story: YEAR 2

    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 to the current context of their medical careers. Through various stages of medicine, we all face our own unique challenges and although it may sometimes feel like we are all alone or the only…

  • My Wellbeing Story: YEAR 1

    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 to the current context of their medical careers. Through various stages of medicine, we all face our own unique challenges and although it may sometimes feel like we are all alone or the only…

  • The Awkward Tales of a Medical Student

    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 and efficient day, making fanciful goals for success. Every night it goes to sleep, having achieved none of what it had planned, self-loathing and an ever-growing pile of work still intact. At times, it…

  • Perspective: How we see things becomes our truth

    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 word is my favourite word. Why you may ask? Because your perspective changes the way you think about the word and it doesn’t stop there, your perspective changes the way you think about the…

  • Stanthorpe, Wine and Clinical Skills

    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 Stanthorpe for the Rural Clinical Skills Trip. There was no looking back- mainly because we couldn’t, as the car was packed to the brim with bags and excitement for the adventure ahead. The majestic…

  • Bachelor in PBL

    Bachelor in PBL

    Gary Oldman once said, “Reality TV, to me, is the museum of social decay”. While I couldn’t agree more, I have to admit that social decay makes for great TV. From catfights to golden one-liners like “umbrella of ambiguity” or “so much chemistry it’s like seeing the whole periodic table” reality TV is entertainment…

  • Straight Outta Southport

    Straight Outta Southport

    Remember your first comm skills session? The brief was: “Have a conversation”. I didn’t think this would be a problem. I’m generally pretty chatty (sometimes to the grandest of degrees if there’s food involved). But I got into the double mirrored room and had 7 pairs of eyes looking at me like the guy…

  • I Broke Up With a Boy… Using SPIKES

    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 Swift, teen rom-coms and Disney. Dramatic confessions of feelings are all I’ve ever known. My relationships have always been filled with soaring heights or the deepest of lows. From mountain sunrises to crying in…