This blog has sort of fallen to the wayside…but I hope it won’t sit there for too much longer! In the last two years, my world has almost entirely changed. Back home in Northern Ireland after a wonderful five years in Scotland, no longer a student, and now entering my second year working as a junior doctor. I graduated a year ago and have been working since – and loving it.
Coronavirus (COVID19) has changed the world and that on its own has had multiple ramifications. The one that is most relevant to this blog, is the lack of teaching opportunity available to me but that was unavoidable. I hope to rectify that this year. I have tried my best through the FiY1 scheme to continue teaching and carried out multiple scenario style, informal case discussions for my junior colleagues, mostly revolving around my teaching passion in emergency care and managing the unwell patient; I intend to continue to do this as time goes on, as well as getting involved in more formalised teaching. I have continued to teach my more junior colleagues practical skills such as cannulation and venipuncture, all which has been learned before by them, but a bit out of practice and most importantly, lacking confidence.
I hope that with the incoming academic year, I will have more time and opportunity to teach, formally and informally and by extension contribute more to this education based blog.
Medical Education 