Grad Week / Dedication Ceremony
Friday was the end to a very busy week for us graduating med students after our last exam a week prior. One of the students in our year, Warren, had organised a week-long celebration to mark our last week of medical student-dom before our transition to fully-fledged doctors. He had arranged a massive house party, followed by karaoke, followed by a trip down south, followed by a river cruise, followed by the 6th Year Dinner, followed by a champagne breakfast, followed by the official Dedication Ceremony, where our transition to doctors would be officially complete once we had all sworn the Hippocratic oath.
It was a very strange feeling at the ceremony. Throughout the week, the celebrations had been muted somewhat as we had not known whether we had passed our exams until Thursday. On Thursday at the Dinner, our emotions were finally let out as we celebrated with a clear conscience. Yet celebrations were always slightly tempered, as we realised that six of us had not cleared the final hurdle along with the rest of us. On Friday at the ceremony, again, it was a strange feeling as we revelled in the fact that we had finally set out what we had achieved to do when we started this journey together six years ago. There was sadness for those of us who were leaving to either go back home, or start again in another city. There were the families of classmates who had to be introduced and talked to. There was another pang of regret for some, who had not received honours due to a past failure in an innocuous unit.
All in all, it was a very emotional day, an end to one chapter in our lives and the beginning of something bigger and hopefully much better. Pictures on the right and here.
Tags: Medical
It was a very strange feeling at the ceremony. Throughout the week, the celebrations had been muted somewhat as we had not known whether we had passed our exams until Thursday. On Thursday at the Dinner, our emotions were finally let out as we celebrated with a clear conscience. Yet celebrations were always slightly tempered, as we realised that six of us had not cleared the final hurdle along with the rest of us. On Friday at the ceremony, again, it was a strange feeling as we revelled in the fact that we had finally set out what we had achieved to do when we started this journey together six years ago. There was sadness for those of us who were leaving to either go back home, or start again in another city. There were the families of classmates who had to be introduced and talked to. There was another pang of regret for some, who had not received honours due to a past failure in an innocuous unit.
All in all, it was a very emotional day, an end to one chapter in our lives and the beginning of something bigger and hopefully much better. Pictures on the right and here.
Tags: Medical
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