{"id":342,"date":"2008-02-14T11:38:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T10:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2008\/02\/14\/mark-lewis-revises-his-to-do-list\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T11:38:26","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T10:38:26","slug":"mark-lewis-revises-his-to-do-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2008\/02\/14\/mark-lewis-revises-his-to-do-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Lewis revises his &#8220;to do&#8221; list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry it&#8217;s been a while folks, had my viva this week so I&#8217;ve been hiding in a corner with a pile of books until now!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday was my exam day and thanks to a lot of support from the people I work with I passed.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad I won&#8217;t have to do that day again, it&#8217;s pretty nerve-wracking. The candidates are all placed in the Library together then called out in small groups for each 20 minute viva. Some people come back close to tears, or with a vacant stare of pure, blind fear.\u00a0 I was fortunate to have been with some colleagues from my hospital &#8211; I think if I&#8217;d been on my own I would have been a wreck too.<\/p>\n<p>So now that I passed, I automatically get put through to the clinical exam in March &#8230; I guess there&#8217;s no rest for the wicked.<\/p>\n<p>I also have a big pile of things I&#8217;ve been ignoring and simply writing on a list until the exam is over.\u00a0 I guess the next week will be spent crossing things off of it again!\u00a0 (No.12 was &#8220;Blog&#8221;, guess that one&#8217;s taken care of!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry it&#8217;s been a while folks, had my viva this week so I&#8217;ve been hiding in a corner with a pile of books until now! [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2008\/02\/14\/mark-lewis-revises-his-to-do-list\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-junior-doctors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}