Are you in your final years of study or working? Tom: I have completed my studies. Will: I just graduated at the end of last year. Luke: I am now doing my Doctor of Medicine (MD). Anthony: Final year (6th year trainee intern). Michael: I have completed medical school. Jack: I have finished studying and
am now working. Fraser: Finished for now, may do more in future
What are you doing this year? Tom: I am currently working as a first-year House Officer (PGY1) in Tauranga.
penultimate year of medicine. Anthony: Currently completing my final trainee intern year in Christchurch. Michael: I am working as a doctor at Taranaki Base Hospital. Jack: I am a first-year House Officer (junior doctor) at Auckland Luke: I have faced challenges in my journey to find a place in the medical world. However, I am very fortunate to attend one of the best medical schools in the world at the University of Sydney, where I feel accepted for my personal strengths and attributes. Anthony: It has certainly had its ‘ups and downs’ but the journey has certainly had rewarding moments throughout. At this stage, I’m still very early in my medical career, and I’m sure it will continue to be difficult, yet rewarding. Michael: To be cliché, there have been ups and downs. First year was both incredibly fun yet stressful. There was also a massive learning curve from studying anatomy and physiology
City Hospital. This year, I am working in orthopaedics, general medicine, general surgery and cardiology. We do three months in each attachment. Fraser: PGY1 at the Canterbury DHB.
Will: I have started working since January at Southland Hospital in Invercargill. Luke: I am currently undergoing specialty rotation blocks in my
How difficult has your journey been? Tom: Medicine requires academic
in lecture theatres to applying and dealing with the complexity of actual patients. However, I have been surrounded by good people (friends, mentors, family) and called on the resilience that I’ve developed from College to get through unscathed. Jack: The hardest part was probably gaining entrance into medical school. It was a bit of a fight to get a spot. Since then it’s just been passing all the assessments and trying to have a balanced life so I don’t burn out. Fraser: I’m not sure. I think that difficulty is relative, and I haven’t tried anything else. I guess I’d call it challenging but manageable so far. It’s probably too early to comment on actually working as a doctor though.
commitment and a lot of time, so juggling extracurriculars, and recreation was the hardest part of the journey for me. Will: Compared with many of my peers, I have been blessed with a relatively pain-free journey. I think that it is important to remember
how privileged students at Christ’s College and schools
like it are to be provided with an excellent education within a safe environment. One piece of advice I would have is to take care of your mental and physical health. From personal experience, it can be easy during university to let self- care fall by the wayside. Building healthy habits early on will make things easier as life only gets busier with time.
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