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LO4 COMMITMENT – Showing perseverance, resilience. Show commitment and perseverance in CAS experiences. Students can articulate the stages from conceiving an idea to executing a plan for a CAS experience or series of CAS experiences. |
Unfortunately, ever since online learning (due to the COVID19 situation), we have not been able to hold medical society on Monday’s. Whilst this was initially quite sad, I decided to consider valid alternatives to what I could achieve outside of the club. I decided this was a good opportunity to grow a habit of reading some news, or research on medical journals/websites every week. It is difficult to consistently put in time, with this term being one of the busiest that there have been. Usually, when it comes to an area like Medicine, which I’m so passionate and interested in, it does seem like a sacrifice to dedicate time to it. However, I’ve been feeling very anxious, stressed and tired during this time, and hence I’ve been trying push myself. For example, I also teamed up with a friend from Medical Society and the both of us shared resources with one another on “*virtual shadowing ” (which the Medical Schools Council recommended) and dedicated some time outside of lessons to have a chat about what we were reading on the news about different countries’s approach to the pandemic.Overall, despite not being able to have medical society, I think that I’ve learnt that is still other possible methods to be as actively engaged and involved (but this requires a lot of discipline to maintain).
*The Royal College of General Practitioners have created an interactive platform called Observe GP which highest the many different aspects of working in primary care.
