So I'm Kaveshan Pather. The way that the course
is taught here and just the experience I've
had here was far better than I ever thought
I'd get in Brisbane. To be honest it was the
best thing that ever happened to me. Added
onto that I've been able to work while I'm
up here as well and it's just been a great
way to sort of work your way through a really
hard and strenuous course in this sort of
chilled laid back environment up here.
The rural placements are one of the best things
about JCU. When you're out there and you're
on a team of maybe three or four other people,
you get to do so much more then you ever would
in one of the big hospitals. My final rural
rotation you get to spend ten weeks out in
Tully. It was a fantastic experience because
there's really no sort of junior staff and
so you get to see your own patients as a GP
and in the Emergency Department. Yeah you
get to develop your own sort of work up and
treatment plans and you work one on one with
consultants which is unheard of in other places
in the country. I think that the best thing
that I could tell you as a first year would
be get comfortable being uncomfortable. Medicine
is quite a confronting degree to do, especially
if you're coming straight out of school and
there are a lot of times where you feel really
out of your depth, but you've got people there
to support you. That's really where the greatest
learning happens when you're out of your comfort
zone and you're in there and getting involved.
If I was to leave JCU what I'd remember about
it and I think just the amazing people that
I've while I'm here and talking about one
students, it's been a wonderful six years
to get to know these guys and study with them
and sort of grow with them through six years
but also lecturers at JCU.
So I chose to hang around in Townsville because
one I really love, I've loved the place over
the last six years. And there's so much you
can do up in North Queensland. I'm an outdoorsy
person so I like to get out and go camping
and two,clinically there's so much learning
I've done at TTH. As the intern, you're involved
with all the sort of technical processes to
actually get things moving and get treatments
to patients.
