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November 28, 2019

Back to Hospital

This week we ended our research block and started on Advanced Cases 2 (AC2). The idea of AC2 is to get us back into the swing of clinical medicine again, after not doing anything clinical for over 3 months! On Monday and Tuesday this week we had lectures which cover very broad topics: chronic disease management, emergency surgery and revision of diabetes. These lectures are mostly things that we have done before in Phase II, so they serve as revision of core topics and also build slightly on our pre-existing knowledge, with more of a focus on actually managing a patient. Phase I introduced us to the basic science needed for medical practice, Phase II aimed to make us comfortable with clinical history and examination, including some basic diagnosis. Phase III starts here, and the overall emphasis is on how to diagnose and treat people as they come through the door.

Today in hospital we had our first Case Based Discussion of Phase III. A Case Based Discussion is where we go out and find our own patient to talk to, and with this patient we talk to them about why they came into hospital (i.e. take a history) and examine them. Then we meet up with a doctor and have a discussion about what we found out and what we would do to investigate, diagnose and then manage that patient. In our first discussion of Phase III, it is clear that a lot more is expected of us than last year. It was very much clear that we need to not only be able to take a good history and examination, we also need to be focused and able to logically think through diagnoses, eliminating them as we go. It was a bit of a shock to the system to firstly not have done any clinical medicine for months, and secondly, have a lot more expected of us! Needless to say, I was very rusty and not very smooth. I hope that as I get back into the swing of things and become a little bit slicker than I was today…


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