I managed to pack a lot in to the reading week, including the trip to Amsterdam to the International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare and finishing up with the Edinburgh Half Marathon this Sunday. I managed to beat my half-marathon time from the last one which I did a couple of years ago in Dundee so I was pleased with how it went. Perhaps next step up to the marathon? I'll be watching the London marathon this weekend!
The conference was a great experience. I was there with three other students (see left) and we met up with elective Rob! (Glasgow final year student) who happened to be there at the same time. It was good to see that the UK was the most represented country at the conference and this reflects the amount of work being carried out in the NHS. I was amazed that our poster on venous thrombo-embolism prevention was one of literally hundreds at the reception on the Wednesday evening and there was an entire section of posters dedicated just to VTE prevention. The conference was quite inspiring and I had a chat with some FY1s/FY2s who had done similar work. I had been concerned about the difficulty of undertaking improvement work during the foundation years due to the clinical workload I would be faced with but they provided some encouraging advice which has given me some more confidence that it is possible.
The most interesting talk was given by Professor Emily Friedman from Boston University on the topic of global health and the dramatic changes to healthcare provision which have taken place in Cambodia over the past 50 years since the devastating genocides which took place previously. I'm now in Inveraray to do my one month GP placement, to give me a taste of health-care provision in a rural community and looking forward to the next few weeks!
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