Friendly surgeons!!!
Hello!
I've been back in Oxford for the weekend but I'm just about to go back to Reading for my second week of District General Hospital attachment. Despit being a lot smaller than the John Radcliffe, where I've been so far, the Royal Berkshire Hospital, where I'm working now, is very big for a DGH and since it only has 12 medical students in it, we have a lot of freedom to go and see what we want to without stepping on other students toes. I was originally meant to be attached to the lower gastrointestinal surgery firm but I'd already been on that firm in Oxford so the consultants were happy to let me swap to upper gastrointestinal surgery, but also for me to go and see what other surgical firms get up to as well. I was a bit concerned when I went to the lower GI consultants and asked to move off their firm and one said, "do you think you know everything about lower GI already?", but in fact he wasn't about to bite my head off but was just offering to let me come to his clinics if I wanted to see any more of lower GI after moving to upper GI! All the doctors are considerably less fed up with having medical students around than in the John Radcliffe Hospital, and even consultant surgeons seem to be friendly!
As well as being less fierce, the DGH surgeons have been making a more visible effort to teach us on ward rounds, in theatre, and in clinics. Whereas the doctors on some firms I've been with previously have never acknowledged my presence despite seeing me every day for several weeks, the ones I'm with now discuss patients with me on ward rounds and point out interesting patients for me to go back and talk to or examine. In theatre, I've been asked to scrub in and assist, rather than having to ask myself, and surgeons have gone over the anatomy with me in laparoscopic surgery where it's all very clear to see.
I'm living in hospital accomodation during the week. The other students are together in one housing block, and I'm just a few blocks down with some staff nurses. The rooms are very much like college rooms, with shared bathrooms and kitchens. It's not quite as nice as being at home in Oxford but it does have the advantage of only having to walk for a few minutes to get to early morning ward rounds (although at the moment it's taking me just as long to find where I'm meant to be going, as I don't know my way around the hospital yet!). It's also only about 45 minutes drive from Oxford, and I have a very kind fellow student coming to give me a lift back there now, so I'd better go!
Bye!
I've been back in Oxford for the weekend but I'm just about to go back to Reading for my second week of District General Hospital attachment. Despit being a lot smaller than the John Radcliffe, where I've been so far, the Royal Berkshire Hospital, where I'm working now, is very big for a DGH and since it only has 12 medical students in it, we have a lot of freedom to go and see what we want to without stepping on other students toes. I was originally meant to be attached to the lower gastrointestinal surgery firm but I'd already been on that firm in Oxford so the consultants were happy to let me swap to upper gastrointestinal surgery, but also for me to go and see what other surgical firms get up to as well. I was a bit concerned when I went to the lower GI consultants and asked to move off their firm and one said, "do you think you know everything about lower GI already?", but in fact he wasn't about to bite my head off but was just offering to let me come to his clinics if I wanted to see any more of lower GI after moving to upper GI! All the doctors are considerably less fed up with having medical students around than in the John Radcliffe Hospital, and even consultant surgeons seem to be friendly!
As well as being less fierce, the DGH surgeons have been making a more visible effort to teach us on ward rounds, in theatre, and in clinics. Whereas the doctors on some firms I've been with previously have never acknowledged my presence despite seeing me every day for several weeks, the ones I'm with now discuss patients with me on ward rounds and point out interesting patients for me to go back and talk to or examine. In theatre, I've been asked to scrub in and assist, rather than having to ask myself, and surgeons have gone over the anatomy with me in laparoscopic surgery where it's all very clear to see.
I'm living in hospital accomodation during the week. The other students are together in one housing block, and I'm just a few blocks down with some staff nurses. The rooms are very much like college rooms, with shared bathrooms and kitchens. It's not quite as nice as being at home in Oxford but it does have the advantage of only having to walk for a few minutes to get to early morning ward rounds (although at the moment it's taking me just as long to find where I'm meant to be going, as I don't know my way around the hospital yet!). It's also only about 45 minutes drive from Oxford, and I have a very kind fellow student coming to give me a lift back there now, so I'd better go!
Bye!
posted by Jane Davis @ 7:04 AM
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