So, after spending an age pressing F5, and waiting for Blackboard to recover from crashing under the load of everyone else also hanging on the refresh button, I finally found out what my mark for this year, and indeed the course, is. It’s a high 2:1. I can’t quite believe it. I really should, as it follows almost exactly the marks I’ve been getting on my work for the last […]
Today has been my last exam. It was my final clinical exam, and I had been psyching myself up for it for weeks – possibly since I got my dissertation in. A few minutes after the exam, I was told I’d passed. I can’t believe it – the emotions running through my brain are a mixture of relief, elation, excitement, happiness… and a little bit of a bitter-sweet emotion as […]
Another milestone made. Today was my last day of clinic. For me, this is actually more profound than taking my last academic exams last week. Clinic is where I feel I have done most of my learning, at least practical learning, and the kind of learning I will be using in my own clinic in the future. And, because we often work as a group in clinic, there is a […]
One of the things that I’m sure will change as I move towards setting up my own practice is having other therapists immediately available to check, consult and discuss cases, and other non herbal stuff with. As I write this, I am making up some clinic hours shadowing one of the second year clinics. Because there is nothing really for me to do at this stage, other than physically be […]
So, I’ve finally done it. Last written exam on the herbal medicine course. This means that I only have one more thing to do here in my time at Lincoln University, and that is my final clinical exam. I have no reason to suspect that I won’t whizz through that considering how well the mock went. I can’t believe what a journey this has been. Mu herbal medicine journey started […]