Sunday included:
1. Watching the film ‘West Beyruth‘ whilst ironing. I finished the ironing, but not the film.
2. Bought the book ‘Stuart – A life lived backwards’ for my uncle, who was once miltary attache in Damascus.
3. Cycled out to the local golf driving range with Shirley and hit a few balls.
4. Tried to watch the film ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ but kept falling asleep.
5. Started work on shift handover notes.
A scene from the film ‘West Beyruth’.
It occured to me today that of all the places I have worked that one of the most unusual was the PLAB test set up at the General Medical Council. For those who don’t know PLAB is “the main route by which International Medical Graduates (IMGs) demonstrate that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to practise medicine in the UK”). My brief tour round the PLAB testing facilities during my brief stint at the GMC was fascinating. There are something like 12 senarios each in their own room within a specially designed complex that candidates have to pass through, with a set time linit for each, where they have to practice their medical skills with volunteer actors playing patients with real conditions.