Skewl stuff
Aug. 1st, 2007 02:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squeefulfishNext year's timetables and the umpteenth change to the 4 year planner arrived this morning.
No psychology! Modules look interesting: pharmacology, adaptation in pregnancy, pre-existing pathophysiology, unexpected outcomes of pregnancy and childbirth. Yeah, lots of "sick people" stuff that I need to know but that doesn't change the fact that it's a normal experience. Otherwise, as I keep saying, species wouldn't have survived. The nonsense that is the obligatory Broad Curriculum module (hopefully film, I need at least one thing I can coast through) hasn't been finalised yet.
2 weeks off round Christmas and another two round Paddy's Day. This is looking a lot more surviveable than last year. Plus! Woo! We must have really annoyingly vocal yet well spoken class reps [1] cos cos cos, the option to work our placement hours as it suits us (assuming it suits on a ward level and the like) INCLUDING! Woo! Possibility of doing nights! Woo! [2]
Surgical and medical placements will not have weekends in them. At all. Wheee! Makes up for having to go to Naas. Somewhat.
[1] Ahem. But also, muahahaha! I has influence! Silly people, letting me at course and school board meetings.
[2] We get assigned a preceptor to follow around and learn from and then be sent off to do stuff by. We also have to work with them for a certain number of hours to ensure continuity. When they move to nights (night duty is week of nights as in 7x13 hour shifts in a row, week off) we're kinda screwed for 2 weeks. Moving to nights may get up An Bord Altranais's nose, but nah nah ne nah nah. I argued, obviously successfully, that as long as we get the hours in it shouldn't matter when we do them, what with midwifery never being a 9-5 M-F job. So option of doing long days or short or nights depending on what suits. I like getting what I want. Plus nights suit better for commuting, weirdly.
No psychology! Modules look interesting: pharmacology, adaptation in pregnancy, pre-existing pathophysiology, unexpected outcomes of pregnancy and childbirth. Yeah, lots of "sick people" stuff that I need to know but that doesn't change the fact that it's a normal experience. Otherwise, as I keep saying, species wouldn't have survived. The nonsense that is the obligatory Broad Curriculum module (hopefully film, I need at least one thing I can coast through) hasn't been finalised yet.
2 weeks off round Christmas and another two round Paddy's Day. This is looking a lot more surviveable than last year. Plus! Woo! We must have really annoyingly vocal yet well spoken class reps [1] cos cos cos, the option to work our placement hours as it suits us (assuming it suits on a ward level and the like) INCLUDING! Woo! Possibility of doing nights! Woo! [2]
Surgical and medical placements will not have weekends in them. At all. Wheee! Makes up for having to go to Naas. Somewhat.
[1] Ahem. But also, muahahaha! I has influence! Silly people, letting me at course and school board meetings.
[2] We get assigned a preceptor to follow around and learn from and then be sent off to do stuff by. We also have to work with them for a certain number of hours to ensure continuity. When they move to nights (night duty is week of nights as in 7x13 hour shifts in a row, week off) we're kinda screwed for 2 weeks. Moving to nights may get up An Bord Altranais's nose, but nah nah ne nah nah. I argued, obviously successfully, that as long as we get the hours in it shouldn't matter when we do them, what with midwifery never being a 9-5 M-F job. So option of doing long days or short or nights depending on what suits. I like getting what I want. Plus nights suit better for commuting, weirdly.
