A few days in the life of Shivani Tanna - Year 3 Medicine in the Community Course Lead and Senior Teaching Fellow
I am fortunate,
to have many varied roles. No day is ever really the same for me so writing
about a typical day is a challenge. For three days a week (Mondays, Tuesdays
and Fridays), I am a locum GP having recently moved to Liverpool and sadly
leaving my salaried role in West London. For the three days as a GP I’m mostly ferrying
my kids to school, rushing to my practice, seeing 16 patients and possibly a
home visit, admin and then rushing back to collect kids before ferrying them
again to activities, cooking dinner and homework. I attempt to get the kids to
sleep by 8pm but usually fail miserably until about 9.30pm. I try and do a bit
of work for at least half an hour every evening during my "peace and quiet
adult time" - either a project for Imperial, a medico-legal report, an
appraisal or writing children's books which is a hobby of mine. After that it's
bed. My two days a
week as a course lead for year 3 MICA start on a Wednesday morning at 4.05am. I
quietly pott…