 Hi everyone! I'm at placement. Early as always, it's 20 past 7. I'm an hour and 40 minutes early. Got my revision. Last day of revision, it's Tuesday. My exams tomorrow. I'm on the revision and I'm not as stressed. I feel prepared for it. I think I know enough to pass so we've got this. And yesterday I didn't have a chance to vlog yesterday because the gates to my placement were open so I went into the car park, got into placement and I did my revision inside and the cleaners were around things. I didn't really want to vlog whilst I was inside. So yesterday, just to update you, got to placement, wrote a little blog, a little bit of revision and then I had an amazing day with my mentor and I did something new yesterday. So yesterday I took part in a patient meeting and what we did, there was me, my mentor and the training practice manager and we had usually there's a group of 10 patients but today we only had three for whatever reason and what this session is all about is getting patient feedback and seeing if there's anything that the practice can do better or you know getting suggestions from patients on advice and things that they can do on certain situations that have happened and we had some really good feedback. I took all the minutes down and I've typed them up and just going to print them and hopefully the doctor's happy with my minutes so waiting for that feedback. So yeah that's it really so that was really good fantastic experience and I love that they get patient feedback and I think all practices do this they have the patient meeting and it's just such a great idea and I know in certain areas like the wards it's probably going to be tricky to do that sort of thing but I think it's just it's amazing and it's really good that the practice embraces patient advice and feedback and suggestions and take them on board and put them into use to make changes because they do embrace change and that's fantastic because not many places do that and some people fear change and I'm not too sure why but this practice proper embraces change they're always looking for better ways of doing things and it's just fantastic I just I couldn't think of a better place to be on a placement is general practice because everything so far I'm halfway through has been incredible. So I thought I'd video again because I'm in the car um I was just social media scrolling catching up with things that I haven't done for a long time so it's just started raining isn't it fabulous doesn't does anyone else just genuinely like sitting in the car and listening to the sound of the rain on the roof I think it's beautiful that's not I sounded really sarcastic then but um sometimes I sound really sarcastic and I'm not I genuinely love the sound of rain it's fabulous so I'm still trying to pluck her up the courage to actually run across and go inside so I'm just going to wait here for a while and listen to it and enjoy it and we'll chill out go through my placement documents I haven't actually showed anyone placement documents have I but this is what my placement documents look like and inside we have a book um oh get out because he's got details in the front and I can't blank the details out so that's it I'm gonna go through that add some things because I've got loads of things to add to it and yeah hopefully today will be a great day so today is Thursday which can only mean one thing exams over I'm at placement early I have got no revision look empty I've got no revision oh such a relief the exam's done um so I didn't vlog yesterday mainly I forgot because I was so nervous I arrived at university and it's just crazy like how you how you walk into the university knowing there's an exam and there's an atmosphere and everyone's quiet everyone's really nervous looking um we all walked into the room it was really silent like eerily silent we all sat down could feel the tension anyone that's been through an exam you'll know exactly what I'm talking about and you know you've got the paper there on the table and you're looking you think oh god is this going to be all right am I going to do enough to pass and then so it's a two hour exam 54 questions they give you 10 minutes at the start to just quickly look through get the general overall gist of it feel for the questions and then you're not allowed to touch your pen at this point then they give you two hours that's it go get your pen start answering I had the 10 minutes and I was looking through and I was like yes this exam's gonna be great I was looking at the question it's like I know that one I can answer that one give me my pen can I answer it now no diagrams I was like yes I know this diagram I know this diagram I know everything oh not everything I got a few wrong 100% got a few wrong well not yeah you know what I mean but a few questions through me so I think I don't know but they just threw me so I was just like what what what and then I answered it as best as I could so I'm hoping I've got it right and then a couple of questions I literally my mind went blank and I knew the answer because it was a question that I've been revising for the the past two three months now and my mind went blank and it was such an important question I was like how don't you know this how don't you know this thing I I do know it and it's there I know it I know the answer but because I was so nervous um my mind just went blank even though I was flicking through the ground I know this one know this one and it did relieve some of the nerves but my mind it's funny how the mind works isn't it during an exam so I've obviously answered it um I'm not going to leave best a tip for exams is don't leave anything blank just guess if you don't know your mind's gone blank you haven't got a clue you can't remember by the end of the exam go back to it put something in there because you've got a chance of actually being right so that's what I've done fingers crossed I've got I think it was there was three answers to it three parts to it so I might have half of it right we'll say fingers crossed but looking at it I've counted the questions there was a hundred marks out so out of a hundred pretty certain I've passed because you only need 40 marks to pass and when when I was skipping through at the end oh I finished the exam after an hour the just sit go over my answers counted all the points up so there's a hundred points I'm hoping I've counted that right because we all know my maths is not the best and so I've definitely a hundred percent of past I'll be surprised if I haven't passed because I knew a lot of the answers and looking at it when I've counted the points of things I've passed so but you know where you start doubting yourself like the day after the exam and you're thinking but what if I've actually answered that wrong but I think it's right and then you start doubting it you go oh but anyway four weeks I've got the results I'm confident I come out feeling happy I was so chuffed I hugged one of the lecturers I was like that's a great exam give me a hug um probably made him feel really uncomfortable so I'm sorry if you're watching this um but I was chuffed and everyone the general feel from most people coming out of the exam is they were happy with the exam they're happy enough that they've passed they've done enough to pass so great exam that was a great exam and whoever wrote that exam if you're watching mp2 people if you're watching and you've written that exam thank you because the way that exam is laid out not the specific questions as such but the layout of the exam the mixture of diagrams multiple choice there's gaps where you just fill in the blanks um there's true or false questions there's short answers is a whole variety and that was a for me personally I loved that that was a great exam the layout was fantastic great variety it keeps the exam interesting um so thank you for that that's it I mean overall I'm really chuffed chuffed that I haven't got revision so now I can concentrate on placement concentrate on the drugs that my mentor has given me to remember and fill out my placement documents and that's what I'm going to be doing for the next four weeks three and a half weeks now today um at placement um waiting for my mentor and we're gonna have a great day so let's see what today brings say goodbye mp2 revision it's being packed away now and into here day is Friday it's the weekend and I'm off because I work in general practice so it is Friday I'm back in the window so sorry guys I'm back in the window I'm not on my desk because if you can see in that corner don't look at it um it's a little bit of a mess and it needs a tidy so I just wanted to do this video round up my week at general practice so yesterday I was with my mentor we saw a variety of patients we had some diabetic foot checks we had blood pressure checks we had some so today I was with the doctor we only did the morning session sorry I don't know what's happened to my throat is decided to just KO on me so excuse that for a minute so it was with the doctor we saw a variety of patients we had a child we had an elderly lady we had a youngish person a bit of a variety to be honest with all different conditions back complaints a lot of patients had tonsillitis some head problems congestion problems things like that loads of different things today so something else I did today I was given two tasks by my mentor the first one I had to go online have a look at some travel documents look at some official sites to get some information and print out a load of things for patients so I did that and my second task was to try and compile together a mental health management plan so I did that as well and I've put little folders on a desktop so they're both funny little folders I've saved all the links in their websites everything for us so it's ready for her I've printed a load of stuff off for the travel vaccine so I've done initially 10 patients because that's what she said she said just do it for 10 patients initially and see how we get on so that's what I've done and hopefully I've done a good job so I finished it two o'clock yay and I'm home I can cook dinner I can relax I love general practice I keep telling you all this so yes I'm gonna have a great weekend I'm gonna relax I haven't got any revision to do oh it's such a lovely feeling Monday I'm back at placement I've got three weeks left this is it this is the end of my fifth week these weeks are just going too fast so yeah I'll speak to you all next week and have a great weekend