I'm Josh, a fourth year medical student from Australia!
On this blog, I write on my various interests, such as linguistics, medicine and memories growing up in Australia, as well as opinion pieces. Outside of these, I volunteer with various societies, play the clarinet in a number of orchestras and enjoy youth leading at my church. Read in further detail the topics I write about by clicking here
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Featured Posts from Recent Life
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Obstetrics and Gynaecology Rotation in Fourth Year Medicine
I found obstetrics and gynaecology quite interesting. Box Hill Hospital was a good hospital to do Obstetrics and Gynaecology placements – we had birth suite, theatres for gynaecology and C-sections, clinics for antenatal care, postnatal care, gynaecology and miscarriage, and inpatient foetal assessment as well. I learnt a lot across the diverse offerings – and was able to get all the tasks on my logbook ticked off relatively early.
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GP Rotation in Fourth Year Medicine
In my fourth year of medicine, I had GP as my third rotation, from June to August. The schedule worked as follows: Monday / Wednesday, we had teaching at the Alfred Hospital, while on Tuesday and Thursday, I had placement at two GP practices. One was a bulk-billing GP clinic where I spend 6 hours, and the other was a mixed billing practice where I spent 7 hours.
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Psychiatry Rotation in Fourth Year Medicine
For the last 9 weeks, I have had the pleasure of doing my psychiatry rotation at Eastern Health, which I found to be an amazing experience. Within the commmunity, the mere mention of the term ‘psychiatry’ often brings a sense of bewilderment or disdain. The stigma surrounding psychiatry is real - we had to do an assignment around it, and at first, I was surprised at the idea that we had to write 1000 words about the very concept of how a field of medicine is perceived socially. However, I realise it to be true - upon revealing to my friends and peers that I am doing psychiatry, I have received more often than not funny looks and condescending comments.
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Paediatrics Rotation in Fourth Year Medicine
I am now well and truly almost 2/3rds of the way through medicine. In my fourth year of medicine this year, I had the pleasure of experiencing the rotation of Paediatrics for my first 9 week block. We had one week of orientation lectures, followed by 4 weeks at the Angliss Hospital and 4 weeks at Maroondah Hospital.
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Tricks and Tips to parking at the Alfred
I am placed at the Alfred Hospital for Year 3B medicine, and so have had to consider my transport options to the facility where I am undertaking placement and lectures.
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Comparison of pools in Melbourne
This is a table of comparison of the current (January 2023) prices of a number of pools in Melbourne.
- Price refers to full-time university student concession NOT government concession card (which is significantly cheaper in some instances). *Refers to pools with no student discount
- Multi-pass price refers to the unit price for each individual visit
- In general, swim memberships refer to the adult price, but concession prices are also available.
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French and its effect on my language learning journey
French was the second foreign language I learnt. I had always wanted to learn French, and at high school I had the opportunity to do so. I excelled in it, maybe because of natural ability. French taught me not only an entirely new way of thinking of languages, including English and its own morphology and syntax, nor expanded my bilingual vocabulary (I will expand upon this later) immensely, but also taught me the importance and benefits of understanding syntax.
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Cycling in Melbourne
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A Critique of BeReal
Way back in the first year of covid, an app called ‘Bereal’ was released to the world. It would only be in the early months of 2022 where it would begin to spready virally, disrupting the mundane activities of mostly young people once a day, every day.
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All the laugh points in Top Gun - plus observations and a review
This isn’t a traditional review - I don’t have much to say about the film that was bad. Instead, this review are the notes I took during my second viewing of the film, including all the points where the audience laughed.
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Memories from primary school
Primary school was a crazy time. Here are some of my best memories from primary school, a local government primary school.
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Year 12 during the COVID-19 pandemic - a tale of two lockdowns
The post was written on June 28, 2022, using the mental record of my feelings, the archives I store away in my emails and Drive, and news media, including articles and news reports from Australian media outlets.
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Interactive Guitar Chord Selector and Note Trainer
I've been learning the guitar recently - so here's a project I devised and am working on with HTML / JS to train myself with less effort. The first version was released in April, this one is complete with chords and guitar note crammer. Check it out! I appreciate any and all feedback :))
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A guide to the entire Latin course - my notes from an hour of tutoring
A student asked me go through complete Latin grammar in one lesson - so here are my notes from the lesson :))