Another Pair Of Eyes

Lectures

It’s been weird at the end of this [academic] year, in that all my friends who didn’t take gap years and did 3-year courses are now Finished. They are out in the big wide world for the rest of their lives, and I am still 3 years away from even qualifying, let alone finishing my foundation training.* It’s a weird thing to think about, that comparison, but I’m not entirely decided on why. I’m walking the long road though, no question about that, and it’s going to wind for a while.

However, in terms of endings it’s not all other people’s parties. My lecture-based section of my course is done – next year we get one a week, after that I think even less than that. Next year is all about attachments and surgical blocks and being scattered all over the south, and it will be exciting, and I shall learn much. It’s all change, and we’ll have to see where it goes and what happens.

Assuming, of course, I pass my exams. 51% club anyone?

Flames to dust.

*Once you finish medicine, you then have two foundation years (F1 and F2, imaginatively) after which you begin specialty training etc etc -