04
May
My non-academic medical reading list
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Over the past few years I've been approached a few times by prospective/current medical students asking me what books to read before applying to medical...
20
Apr
Remembering the patient’s point of view
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"But did you think about how the patient would have felt during all this?" asked my consultant at our end of placement meeting.
01
Mar
Lent Term 2020: Conference Season
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Months of hustling away on research projects in my own free time finally bore fruit this term, with several project abstracts getting accepted to conferences
22
Oct
MDUK Cambridge Town and Gown 10K
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Ran my first race last weekend! Charity run for MDUK, with a new personal best of 53m 18s.
11
Oct
Heart Rhythm Congress 2019
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Had a wonderful time at Heart Rhythm Congress 2019 with my Student Doctor colleague, Roy Zhang, presenting our research to British cardiac electrophysiologists and learning...
12
Nov
Europhysiology 2018
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Attending my first “serious” (i.e. not student-run) conference back in September 2018 was quite an enjoyable experience. I got to meet some interesting people from...
07
Nov
Using Anki for better fact retention
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The pre-clinical medical sciences course at Cambridge (MVST) is predominantly theoretical and assessment consists of formal written exams at the end of the year. Two...
15
Jun
Welcome
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Welcome to my website. This is the first post of many to come (hopefully). I will be updating this site over the summer holidays with...