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  • Christmas Traditions | How to make the day special

    Christmas Traditions | How to make the day special

    The Christmas traditions are what people often most love about Christmas. As you get older and start moving out to Uni and your own adult lives, you begin to develop your own Christmas traditions whilst still retaining your own family traditions when you go home for the big day itself. Whilst this is my first Read more

  • Med School Diaries | In sickness and In health

    Med School Diaries | In sickness and In health

    It’s been another busy week of med school. It seems like they are intent on cramming as much into the final few weeks of term as possible. Last week was a packed week of community placements and hospital inductions which when combined with being massively unwell was not a week I’ve enjoyed. My community placement Read more

  • Med School Diaries | Community placement and it’s good to go home

    Med School Diaries | Community placement and it’s good to go home

    Another week down and I am entering the final countdown to Christmas. It’s amazing how your body can tell there is a break coming up and how it seems to start failing and begging for a rest. I am suffering currently from a massive cold, I can only blame myself as it is most likely Read more

  • Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate | Fargo Village Chocolate Festival

    Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate | Fargo Village Chocolate Festival

    There is no secret or cheat to getting through medical school unscathed, its simply about finding coping mechanisms and temporarily solutions to the problem. Alas, recently my solution to my problem has been scheduling small non-medical related things to do, and if I can get out of the house even better. So, when I found Read more

  • Med School Diaries: Block 2, Week 2

    I can’t believe we are only a month away from the Christmas break! Time is flying and with another week of lecture heavy content having just gone it is hard to find the time to get any revision done. This week has been a busy one, yet i am fortunate enough to have been extremely Read more

  • Med School Diaries: Block 2, Week 1

    Med School Diaries: Block 2, Week 1

    I can’t believe the first week of block two has finished, it has honestly flown by. The amount of information thrown at you in the first week is intense; you feel overwhelmed and any confidence you have often disappears during this week and you spend the next four years to claw it back. I had Read more