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While I was in Medical School, my favourite rotation was the Medical Posting and I’ve always imagined myself being a Medical Officer in Medical.
Thus, upon entering my Housemanship Journey, I did not choose to rotate in Medical as my first posting. Many people said that the Medical Posting is the most difficult posting of all the postings due to the patient load as well as the workload.
Thus, I began in Orthopaedics and placed Medical as my Fifth Posting. Mainly, because I wanted to “enjoy” it. Enjoy it in the sense that I already knew the basics and knew how to function as a House Officer and would be able to learn how to manage the patients.
However, albeit being a senior poster, some old habits retain. In the Medical posting, we were required to hand in our logbooks 2 weeks prior our End of Posting Date.
However, I approached my mentor 5 weeks prior my exit. Unfortunately, my assigned mentor at that time was not available and asked me to approach my Specialist-in-charge of House Officers at that time to request for a new Mentor.
I approached the Specialist-in-charge and was assigned a new mentor which happened to be someone I worked with multiple times while I was in Medical 3.
The following week was a rather tensed week for me as I tried my best to cram as much as I could.
I finally had my assessment with my first mentor who is a Medical Officer that Sunday. Thankfully, I passed.
2 days later, I went for my assessment with my second mentor, my reassigned specialist, who passed me as well.
The issue next was the completion of my 12 CMEs. CME stands for Continuous Medical Education which occurs once a week on Tuesdays. In other postings, only 5 CMEs were required in order to pass. Sadly, it is not the same for the Medical Posting.
Unfortunately, CMEs done online were not acceptable even if there are certificate of attendance.
Luckily, I had attended a Hospital CME some time ago and I was only looking for ONE more CME prior to my exit of this posting.
Thus, I used that to my advantage and finally, I was able to hand in my logbook and officially exit the posting.
Sadly, a few days prior to my exit, something occurred that led to the demise of a patient. But, that is a story for another article. Thankfully, that did not affect my exit from this posting and I exited, on time.
If you are due to finish the Medical Posting or any posting in general, take it as a lesson from me and approach your assessors much earlier.
Otherwise, all the very best!
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