After four long years of blood, sweat and tears, my Sydney Medical Program colleagues and I have finally finished medical school! Congratulations to everyone in the SMP graduating class of 2010! I was given the honour (and burden) of organising the official year photo for the Sydney Medical Program 2010 graduating cohort during Conference Week. [...]
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Coonabarabran: rural medicine
02Nov09So after the previous few posts on Coonabarabran, you might be wondering whether I actually got around to doing any medicine during my placement there. Indeed I had plenty of medical practice in Coona and it was an amazing experience! (As with previous posts on Coona, the photos below and more can be found on [...]
MedSoc logo refresh
16Aug09The Sydney University Medical Society (MedSoc) has a historic logo designed by Professor Sir Thomas Anderson Stuart, which has remained in use since the late 1880s. Perhaps the reason this design has endured over a century is the strong symbolism featured on it: the caduceus*, lion passant guardant (USyd, NSW, UK), waratah (NSW), and abbreviation [...]
Peer-reviewed and published!
26Mar09Over a four-month period in summer 2007/08, I was involved in public health research at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) on a Faculty of Medicine Summer Research Scholarship. The results from that work have now been published in the journal BMC Health Services Research, which means that I now have my [...]
USydMP Stage 2 OSCE
30Nov08After the hurdle of the Stage 2 Barrier, our final assessment for the year was the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE). For second year University of Sydney Medical Program (USydMP) students this meant a barrage of twelve stations where a specific history, examination or procedural skill was examined. Day 1 stations Paediatric gastrointestinal history Diabetes [...]
A tale of four tutors
31May08Four tutors at two Group of Eight universities in Sydney in the past two weeks: an allegory on some of the qualities of good teachers… Tutor A teaches medicine. Although qualified in a clinical health science, she had little understanding of the subject material nor demonstrated any convincing attempt to do so. She did not [...]
