A Week in the Life

Monday
6:20am. Land at London Heathrow after an 8 hour flight from Heathrow. Feeling surprisingly refreshed.
12.30pm. Arrive at Newcastle University. Scoff down some scampi and sprint off to lectures.
7pm. Emergency Medicine event on Gynaceology and Obstetrics emergencies. Feeling tired after munching two Mayo Chickens on the way home.

Tuesday
9am. Peer Mentoring training session in preparation of being a Peer Mentor for second year. Engaging and exciting session. Not feeling tired.

Wednesday
12pm. Lecture on Pharmacological Intervention of Gastric and Oesophageal Disease. Rarity this year where I actually felt prepared after pre-reading but also linking aspects of previous lectures together. Still on feeling balanced.

Thursday
10am. Meeting with a Writing Tutor to assess my writing style but more simplifying my writing approach. Writing as a student that is being challenged by ensuring I demonstrate an understanding of the subject before applying, analysing, evaluating and synthesising. Realising that the World is built around models and taxonomies.

Friday
1pm. Team-based Learning. Team fared very well and ended up ranking as the highest achieving team. Frustrated at my performance individually. Had a broad skim over case lecture notes but failed to pick out individual details. Also failed to schematically prepare for the types of questions i.e. differential diagnoses and questions that are likely SBA questions.
7pm. London 2012 on PS3 with flatmates. Helped to put my mind at ease after earlier's disappointment.

Saturday
9am. Newcastle Academic Medicine Society Conference. Enjoyable day. Setting up, helping run stands and attending the odd lecture. Great to meet the full committee and looking forward to committing myself more.

Sunday
11pm. Feeling refreshed after an easy day of Case-embedded and End of Case questions with some simple GI blood anatomy. Not feeling overworked but inspired to return to work.

And that's a week. How quickly fortunes and events change throughout the week. Important to move onto the next day with a mindset of always looking to improve.