Internship Guide 2020 - Updated
***SECOND RELEASE WITH UPDATED INFORMATION*** The official guide to the 2021 Internship year. The 2020 Internship Guide was compiled entirely by medical students and junior doctors who have volunteered their time to ensure it is the most up to date source of information relevant to our final year medical students. We hope that the information within this guide will assist you in your internship application. Good luck, Class of 2020!
***SECOND RELEASE WITH UPDATED INFORMATION***
The official guide to the 2021 Internship year. The 2020 Internship Guide was compiled entirely by medical students and junior doctors who have volunteered their time to ensure it is the most up to date source of information relevant to our final year medical students. We hope that the information within this guide will assist you in your internship application. Good luck, Class of 2020!
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7. INTERN SQUAD: Make an intern group chat and help each other out<br />
You’ll need support on the wards and having a place to ask dumb questions about minor intern tasks will make<br />
your life so much easier.<br />
8. LIVE LIFE: Keep in touch with your supports<br />
Organise a regular catch up or call with your friends, partner, other interns and family. It’s easy to get overwhelmed<br />
and lose touch, but the effort is worth it, it’ll do wonders for your mental health as well as strengthening your<br />
relationships. Make plans to do things outside of work - medicine is your job not your life though it may not feel<br />
that way.<br />
Summary & COVID-19<br />
<strong>Internship</strong> is as hard but great. And the more involved you are in medical school the better prepared you will<br />
be. My years getting amongst it [Read: Medsoc, Convention and especially SPUDS] both socially and more<br />
constructively have left me with an incredible network of friends across Australia years above and below me<br />
on the hospital ladder.<br />
I can ask these various legends for advice, vent to them, and always rely on them – and that has made my<br />
years at medical school & the start of my career some of the best years of my life.<br />
So get amongst it. Everything. It’s worth it.<br />
Dr Evan “Lily’ad” Garrett<br />
PS. COVID sucks, but social isolation is only physical, it’s a great chance to keep in touch with your distant<br />
friends. It’s been awesome video chatting to all my SPUDS/AMSA mates, be it just a check in chat or an<br />
massive organised national meeting for beers & banter. Check in with your friends to make sure they are doing<br />
ok in this hard time!<br />
PPS. Always happy to help out if you have questions, email me at egarrettgp@gmail.com<br />
Dr Evan Garrett<br />
Lyell McEwin Hospital (PGY1)<br />
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