“Brain or brawn, you must get on with the job!” When we scanned through our internship timetable the first time we got them, our eyes ran swiftly through all the names until they fell upon one particular posting, which although only a fortnight long, is enough to make our breath catch in our throat. That […]
Some postings you’re really in the thick of it, and in some you are nothing more than an inconsequential spectator. Internship shows you both the extremes. While internship as a whole is often generalised as one entire year of demanding and arduous work, this could not be further from reality. Every department has its own
Act first, think later. Of all the different postings, casualty has to be the most unique one. It certainly sounds quite intimidating, but the nature of work there is surprisingly not the most difficult. I, like most of my batchmates was very much apprehensive and curious about this particular fortnight right since we got the
“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.” What a fine pair of eyes you have there. The world is infinitesimally more beautiful when seen through them. It is as they say, tough times don’t last forever. Well it certainly didn’t last for more than a fortnight for me. After ENT, which was wearisome and
I was prepared to face the wind. I had no idea it would be a storm. In some postings you thrive, some you just survive. Riding on the high of rural posting and also the subsequent 2 weeks of vacation, I was quite excited and pumped for my next posting, in ENT. But my balloon
I can teach you all about the diseases, said the book. And I can teach you all about life, said the hospital. Over the course of rural posting, one invariably has to do a fixed number of casualty duties, where we stay right in the rural PHC for 24 hours and attend to any patient
When the going gets good, the days simply fly. Feels like a blink of an eye and I am already done with a fortnight of rural posting. I had two OPDs and one casualty interspersed with several off days in between. My first day of duty there was in Female OPD, which is the busiest
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The last week of PSM posting was at the SAMC ( Sexual and Marriage Counselling ) clinic, but not unsurprisingly it had patients only once in a blue moon. So we were mainly required to sit in the Nutrition Clinic, which is an adjunct to the Immunization clinic. We had only simple jobs there like
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Barking dogs, or for that matter any dog, do bite. I was done with two weeks of internship, and so were my batchmates and thus we were now entiteld to share our experiences with others who would be posted after us in our departments. Therefore prior to being posted in the ARV Clinic (Anti Rabies
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There may be hundreds of advancements in treatment of diseases everyday, but one would rather hope the disease didn’t happen at all. The first week of internship flew by quite fast, and it was only as the week ended that I finally came to terms with the fact that now I have a day job.