Here I am again, about to chew your ears off about how incredible general practice is and what a great week I have had. Firstly, a patient I had referred on for a problem I had picked up on whilst they were in my clinic, came back to thank me for the referral and that … More General Practice placement week 5
Friday 30th March 2018 It is the bank holiday weekend all! And guess what? I am finished for the weekend and I have a long weekend off?! How amazing is that. Last year on the wards, I worked every single bank holiday going. However, to be honest, I would not mind working it all at … More End of week 3 in my GP placement
Seriously, if the days could just slow down for a moment please! Thank you. It’s almost April?! Can you believe that? We are a quarter way through 2018 already. Not to scare anyone or anything haha. Monday 26th March 2018. Yesterday I had another fantastic day out on placement! We saw a variety of patients … More General Practice placement – start of week 3
Here is my second week of GP placement in a Vlog. I’ve had another amazing week! It has been non stop, I’ve included my GP conference, HARS scholarship interview and careers interview. Click here for my GP Placement vlog
Wednesday 21st of March 2018. A while back I was invited to go to a GP conference. I debated it for a while as it was during my placement and I did not want to miss anything on my placement. Until I sat and thought about it logically and how related to my placement this … More General Practice conference experience
19th March 2018: Today I started my very own clinic! In the morning, I had patients that needed their blood pressure review and in the afternoon, I had patients in for their asthma review. Initially I was a little nervous, as this is something I had never done before, but I felt comfortable enough to … More Week two of my GP placement
Good evening all! I have just finished my final day of my first week at my wonderful general practice (GP) placement. What have I been up to today? Today I was working with a fantastic foundation year 2 (FY2) Doctor. I had recognised her face and then realised she was on my last placement; the … More Day 5 in the life of my GP placement
As I said in my previous blog, today I was immunising babies. This is something I have never seen before so I was quite excited to be learning something completely new. I arrived early as usual. One hour and ten minutes to be exact. The car did not start again this morning (but I was … More Second day of my GP placement
Words can not express how excited, honoured and proud I am right now; a million and one feelings all rolled into one. Firstly, I need to thank the Placement allocations team for giving me my dream placement for next year: GP surgery. I am so privilaged to have got my first choice of placement. The … More General Practice Nursing Opportunity
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