Blimmin ozzies!
On Monday I tured up at the Anaesthetics department. I said, "Hi! I'm the elective student from NZ!" Effectively the response I got was, "What elective student from NZ!?!?!" Nobody was expecting me - nobody even knew I was coming! When the secretary made several phone calls, including a couple to my "supervisor", it was clear that they had no idea what to do with me. So I offered to go away for about 30 mins and come back. After that, nothing had happened so I was just showen quickly around the theatre area and thrown into an operating room. The rest of the week has been similarly chaotic. Every day I just turn up and find a theatre which doesn't have a local student in there already.
Although the lack of a proper schedule has been a bit frustrating, once I get into a theatre it's really good! Getting lots of practise with airway stuff like bag-masking and LMA insertion.... and even a couple of intubations! I've also been getting grilled on physiology stuff - like the 4 things that make the oxygen dissociation curve shift to the right...
Haven't done an awful lot of sightseeing in Melbourne yet. I think after 2 months of sightseeing in Canada, I'm kinda exhausted!! Went to the museum today though which is really awesome! Almost 3 hours in there and I didn't get through half of it! What made it even better is that it's free for students!! Perfect for my budget which kinda exploded in New York and Vancouver...
Although the lack of a proper schedule has been a bit frustrating, once I get into a theatre it's really good! Getting lots of practise with airway stuff like bag-masking and LMA insertion.... and even a couple of intubations! I've also been getting grilled on physiology stuff - like the 4 things that make the oxygen dissociation curve shift to the right...
Haven't done an awful lot of sightseeing in Melbourne yet. I think after 2 months of sightseeing in Canada, I'm kinda exhausted!! Went to the museum today though which is really awesome! Almost 3 hours in there and I didn't get through half of it! What made it even better is that it's free for students!! Perfect for my budget which kinda exploded in New York and Vancouver...
posted by SpongeMike @ 22:29
1 Comments:
poor you!
hehe the museum was interesting. Did they reopen the body and mind section yet? or hav they changed it?there was an egyptian thing on while i was there.
Hope things are improving. duno abt u, but its my last week of elective here b4 my 2 wk holiday =P New York, i'm coming on saturday! And i hvnt even booked ticket yet, i'm hopeless...
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