There are moments where sometimes I must actively force myself to pause and reflect on just how much my life has changed in the last two years. Sometimes it seems almost unbelievable the extent of that change, and I felt that more so whilst doing my electives this year in the emergency department (ED), wards 161, 165, and 167 at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH). Just two years ago I was sitting behind an office desk at a stockbroker having celebrated my 8th year working in the IT department, ensuring our staff were able to trade on the stock exchange. For the entirety of those eight years, my sole purpose and objective was trying to get into the Wits GEMP program and having actively worked towards it for the best part of a decade, it always seemed so incredibly impossible and unrealistic. However, I was offered a place in the program in 2019, and now just two years later I sometimes sit and reflect on how much my life has changed, and how I am now literally living the life I dreamed of for so long. Instead of managing a network of JSE connections, I am now performing lumbar punctures, suturing, inserting catheters, examining patients from start to finish, and coming up with differential diagnoses and management plans that have actual meaning and consequence behind them.
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Wits GEMP | RESEARCH IN MEDICAL SCHOOL
This week I wanted to explain more about the process of research in medical school, and specifically with Wits GEMP. As part of the program, you conduct a research report during your GEMP 2 and 3 years and it counts towards your final GEMP 4 marks.
We also had our research protocol presentation on Wednesday (22 July) and it was a completely nerve-racking experience! Hope you enjoy!
MED SCHOOL STUDY TIME-LAPSE (4 hours of studying!)
Hey guys! This weeks video is just a time-lapse of some studying I did one day this week. I’ve been studying in my dad’s office, so I’ve been WAY more productive, and in this video I managed to study for about 4 hours in a row! I spent some free time catching up on work from our previous blocks in medical school that I’m not too comfortable with yet Hope you enjoy it!
BEING HONEST: SELF-DOUBT AND FEELING OVERWHELMED
This week I wanted to talk about feeling overwhelmed with med school work and dealing with self-doubt and the so-called impostor syndrome
HOW TO STAY MOTIVATED
Here’s a topic that I get asked about quite often, and some points of view on how I stay motivated
Hope you enjoy it!
A WEEK IN THE LIFE | ONLINE + MED SCHOOL UPDATE
It’s been a LONG time since I made a VLOG, so this was quite interesting to do again! We are currently doing our GEMP 2 theory component online, but as things stand we will be heading back to campus in July to start with our clinical skills and compulsories. Thank you for watching – I hope you enjoy the video!
THE WARBURG EFFECT (Normal Metabolism VS Cancer Metabolism)
Here’s a quick video explaining the Warburg effect and cancer cell metabolism
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MY FIRST SURGERY EXPERIENCE
RECORDED ON 5 FEBRUARY 2020
This was my first time observing a surgery, and it was every bit as exciting as I could have imagined! Between work and studying, I’ve been slow to edit or record much this year, but I finally got around to this one – hope you enjoy it!
A PRODUCTIVE WEEKEND IN MED SCHOOL (And GEMP 2 Updates)
First VLOG of 2020!
The first block of GEMP 2 is neurosciences (split into neurology and psychiatry), and this was the first weekend I really tried to sit and study with exams fast approaching!
Welcome to GEMP 2!
As I write this, we have completed 3 weeks (ALREADY!) of our GEMP 2 / 4th year of medicine at Wits! The year starts off with a Neurosciences block, which in itself is made up of neurology and psychiatry.
One of the questions I get frequently from people trying to get into GEMP is if missing out on dissection (a second year med school component) is a massive set-back for students. For GEMP 1, I’d definitely say there is no disadvantage that I could tell – the anatomy labs are relatively straight-forward, and there are cadavers and specimens for each of the relative systems that you can work with.
For the first 3 weeks of GEMP 2, however, I have strongly felt that absence of knowledge. Understandably, getting the brain to understand exactly how the brain understands is inherently confusing, but it has been the most difficult 3 weeks of medical school for me by a long stretch.