clinical A Student's Guide to a Cardiac Critical Care Rotation: Part 2 Part two of my guide to making the most of a cardiac critical care rotation as a medical student. A sample daily routine, how to get stuck in, and present and manage patients confidently.
clinical A Student's Guide to a Cardiac Critical Care Rotation: Part 1 The first part of a medical student guide to cardiac critical care written in reflection after a placement at the Royal Papworth Hospital, UK.
favourites My non-academic medical reading list Over the past few years I’ve been approached a few times by prospective/current medical students asking me what books to read before applying to medical school/starting
clinical Remembering the patient's point of view “But did you think about how the patient would have felt during all this?” asked my consultant at our end of placement meeting. Photo by Natanael Melchor on
Lent Term 2020: Conference Season Months of hustling away on research projects in my own free time finally bore fruit this term, with several project abstracts getting accepted to conferences across the UK and in
MDUK Cambridge Town and Gown 10K Ran my first race last weekend! I started running one year ago after realising my cardiovascular fitness was abysmal, getting breathless after climbing a flight of stairs. Since then I&
Heart Rhythm Congress 2019 Had a wonderful time at Heart Rhythm Congress 2019 with my Student Doctor colleague, Roy Zhang, presenting our research to British cardiac electrophysiologists and learning so much about an exciting
Europhysiology 2018 Attending my first “serious” (i.e. not student-run) conference back in September 2018 was quite an enjoyable experience. I got to meet some interesting people from a wide
Using Anki for better fact retention The pre-clinical medical sciences course at Cambridge (MVST) is predominantly theoretical and assessment consists of formal written exams at the end of the year. Two key learning skill are 1)
Welcome Welcome to my website. This is the first post of many to come (hopefully). I will be updating this site over the summer holidays with useful content for Medical Students and be attempting to blog about things that interest me.