I’m currently in the United Kingdom doing a medical elective attachment in General & Emergency Medicine at The Royal London Hospital, organised through Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry; part of Queen Mary, University of London. The medical elective is a component of final-year in most medical programs worldwide and gives students [...]
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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 [...]
Destination: Coonabarabran
08Oct09As promised earlier, this is the first in a multi-part series on Coonabarabran, where I had an amazing experience on rural placement for Community Rotation in the Sydney Medical Program. So without further ado, my first post about my time in that wonderful little town the locals call “Coona”… how on earth I managed to [...]
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 [...]
