And I'm Spent

And with the pop of a champagne bottle as we walked out of the final exam, first year was over! Well, the substantial part, anyway. What we have to await us now is the FUN bit - elective! I'm flying up to Cairns on Sunday, to spend four weeks at Cairns Base Hospital. I've been tentatively pencilled in to rotate through Infectious Diseases, Surgery, ED and Obs/Gyn, but we'll see what happens, as there's been no definitive information coming through yet. I'm flexible though - it's not as though I have my heart set on anything in particular, and I'm excited to think that in just a few days I'll be on the wards.

It does feel strange to have finished the year - I know I must have said this a hundred times, but the year has gone by so quickly. While by the end of the year I was totally over PBL, I am sad to see our group breaking up, as I think we worked well together, and I will actually miss everyone. Well, everyone but one member of our class, but I won't get into that.

There's also an odd, paradoxical feeling of having learnt a lot this year, but at the same time not knowing anything. I'm aware that what I do know is a mere drop in the ocean compared to what I will eventually know, and even that will be nothing in the grand scheme of things.