Went as a student volunteer in this year's GP conference and exhibition today. It is a yearly thing held in Sydney olympic park but it was my first time attending. Supposed to be the biggest event for GPs in the Southern Hemisphere.. The thing about Australia, everything you do has the potential to be the best in the southern hemisphere, since there isn't many other people in the southern hemisphere itself with the same demographics :P
Anyway, to be honest, my main objective to attend this thing is to get free stuff. Drug reps are a medical students' best friend. U have things like pens, notepads up til really random stuff like BMI calculators, stress balls, and random junk. Best thing today was probably a 1GB thumb drive, although these things are dirt cheap now. : P
Sperm shaped stress balls!
Day was tiring though, was asked to do stupid things like preparing pig throtters for the suturing sessions. Got a suturing kit for free at the end though, but i'll need some meat and some sutures to do anything!
But to be serious, the event itself can be quite a good learning experience since volunteers are allowed to sit in on most of the talks and workshops. Was too tired to do anything though.
Time to pack up the pens! :)
PS: what do you do when a guy who threthens to suicide on a bridge obstructs traffic for 4 hours? You push him down :P . The 'victim' survived at the end.
Anyway, to be honest, my main objective to attend this thing is to get free stuff. Drug reps are a medical students' best friend. U have things like pens, notepads up til really random stuff like BMI calculators, stress balls, and random junk. Best thing today was probably a 1GB thumb drive, although these things are dirt cheap now. : P
Sperm shaped stress balls!Day was tiring though, was asked to do stupid things like preparing pig throtters for the suturing sessions. Got a suturing kit for free at the end though, but i'll need some meat and some sutures to do anything!
But to be serious, the event itself can be quite a good learning experience since volunteers are allowed to sit in on most of the talks and workshops. Was too tired to do anything though.
Time to pack up the pens! :)
PS: what do you do when a guy who threthens to suicide on a bridge obstructs traffic for 4 hours? You push him down :P . The 'victim' survived at the end.
