Pre-emptive update
Haven’t blogged a lot here lately, and I doubt that’s going to change much since I officially resume life as a Uni student again next week. I got the course outline for my first unit of my Masters degree last week and I’ll admit I was not enthused. The unit is on Human Health & Environmental Change - basically looking at the effects on climate change on public health and disease as far as I can tell. The thing that I was least impressed with is that the bulk of the assessment for this unit is through a large project/case study - I’ve never been keen on assignments, preferring to get marks through cramming for exams, so this will not be my cup of tea. I’m yet to work out exactly what my weekly study commitment will be. This unit is one of the 5 compulsory core units for the MPH&TM so I don’t have any choice. The other, non-core, unit I will be doing this semester I’m yet to get any information on, but it promises to be much more interesting : Travel Medicine. This is one of the key reasons I’m doing this degree - to give myself another sub-speciality interest, especially if GP obstetric practice was to become unviable (there are constant changes going on in our health system so it’s impossible to say if things will still be the same in another 2 or 5 years time) - and I’ve fixed on Travel Medicine as that interest. This is because I love to travel, find the medical stuff quite interesting, and it also fits well with the medical mission stuff I’ve done over the last 2 years and plan to continue in the future. So that unit should be much more valuable. Part of it involves a 3 day teaching block in tropical Townsville in October which I’m really looking forward to.
So there’s my pre-emptive explanation if I am quiet on the blog front. Paradoxically I’ve also started a new blog for our music team but I’m hoping to get some other contributors on board with that one so I won’t have to carry the load too much. I will continue to use Twitter so at least there will be some updates as to what’s going on with me, and brief comments on various things. I’ve discovered a few interesting medical blogs of late which always makes me feel like I should talk about more medical stuff on here however lack on inspiration and confidentiality concerns (since this is not an anonymous blog) always stymie that. Maybe my studies will provide me with some interesting material?
Anyway patients waiting and I want to get away on time today so I can do some furniture shopping so I must be off.
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