New rotation!

And this one is good because- *drum roll please*

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I'm actually getting some teaching!!!

Yeah, you hear that? Doctors are actually taking time to tell me about diseases and treatments and examinations and stuff! I don't have to just read it in a book and hope I understand it! I will actually get shown how to do things, perhaps with real patients! I will get to discuss clerkings after I have done them, so I'm told what I missed/could have done better! I may even get recommended good patients to see!

I should be this excited about this, right? I mean it's a rare occurrence for a medical student in London to actually be taught something?

Something I have learnt very quickly is that the teaching hospitals are actually terrible for teaching:
Teaching hospital = high status hospital = complex cases = stressed doctors + doctors who want to do research and have better things than explain simple stuff to students, thankyou very much.

(I understand there's a lot I can just read about... but if I could just learn from reading, I wouldn't need to be in med school...)

I'm sticking with DGH's as much as possible.

I also have lectures this term, which is very exciting for me. I learn a *lot* from lectures. Read a chapter of a book- I've glazed over halfway through. Someone talks to me for an hour and throws in a few memorable stories- I can remember what's going on!

All in all I'm very excited!