Maria Khan

Aspiring psychiatrist🍁medschool grad @AKUglobal🍁internship grad @AKUglobal🍁DCRF research fellow '24🍁Balint🍁 living with my MH experience🍁own view, she/her

[Maria Khan @Maria__khan__]

Toiling away in 11 to 13 hour #PLAB2 classes.
Just 4 hours of time difference- thank you #Greenwich
...And no more morning savings
🗒️🖊️

[Maria Khan @Maria__khan__]

@bunny_227c Hmmm I certainly can try. Though if you need it soon then you can see lots of websites that have quite realistic totals. Sub-reddits also have good answers.

[Maria Khan @Maria__khan__]

Can't wait to go to the UK for #PLAB 2!

Being a #simulatedpatient is hard and not everyone can do it!

Some start yawning out of boredom.
Some say 'temporal headache' and 'serosanguinous discharge'.

Thank you all SPs who sat through station after station in exams without 🥱

[Maria Khan @Maria__khan__]

2/2

6. oh *disappointed*
7. oh how wonderful!
8. psych, yeah it's easy to match into (7 year old response)
9. *frowns* noooo, why? I never got it.😒
10. Sure about that? You'll go crazy like them

(All during med school)

[Maria Khan @Maria__khan__]

1/2 Top 10 responses I've gotten to "I want to be a psychiatrist"

(No particular order)

1. smirk😏
2. smirk😏
3. hmmmmm
4. claps hands👏& starts laughing
5. you need to become strong to listen to complaining all day

[Maria Khan @Maria__khan__]

@dryiabbasi Thank you!
Currently I am trying to find a clinical attachment for right after PLAB 2, to get more exposure! Please let me know if you or @BPPA_Official can help out!
Please keep me in mind if an attachment opportunity opens up/you know someone who is offering!

[Maria Khan @Maria__khan__]

Passed #PLAB1!
Can't wait for #PLAB2 this year...is the #psychiatry training dream getting close?
🤞

[Maria Khan @Maria__khan__]

Medical #internship over? Feels like another lifetime!
If I could change something:
- night shift, not 36 hour calls
- better team accountability
- smart paperwork
- more practical skills classes

Can't believe I graduated #AKU twice!
Note to self: never wear someone else's shoes

[Maria Khan @Maria__khan__]

@antongyan That's awful that there's a way to make ABGs less painful, and one chooses not to use it. I'm sorry for what your mother went through.

[Maria Khan @Maria__khan__]

@ezza__riaz @AKUGlobal Oh thank you!

[Maria Khan @Maria__khan__]

10 months of #internship at @AKUGlobal after med school at the same! What could be better than one alumni card? Two alumni cards!

2 months and 2 days to go, but who's counting?

[Maria Khan @Maria__khan__]

Considering that veterans of the system consider themselves martyrs, who will sign off on change in the poorly state of mental health in healthcare workers?

https://t.co/dXbIdyt56I

[Maria Khan @Maria__khan__]

@abbaskazmi06 Thanks Abbas! Glad you liked it!

[Maria Khan @Maria__khan__]

My own take on my #ADHD is quite different.
https://t.co/YoVGdlnwwF
I feel the world fast-paced, not myself. I want to slow down inside, and #methylphenidate helps me do that. Makes the workers in the back-office of my mind walk calmly with their files.

#Neurodiversity?

[Maria Khan @Maria__khan__]

Post call shivers anyone? After extensive study, I've detailed the biological mechanisms of this abstruse syndrome.
https://t.co/Xl8oraER3Y
This the most fulfilling research I've ever done.

#oncall
#nightduty
#NightShift
#postcall
#MedTwitter

[Maria Khan @Maria__khan__]

@AishaSChachar Thank you so much! When you mentioned your work in this field I never knew I would be invested at a personal level too. The implications are immense!

[Maria Khan @Maria__khan__]

@AishaSChachar It was like stories from other people with ADHD were my own narratives. I think the 'trend' has to do with awareness, and is not just because its vogue.
Now I realise not how I am so different, but how everyone else is. Thank you for bringing this into focus (last time, I swear).

[Maria Khan @Maria__khan__]

@AishaSChachar But I accepted this diagnosis 'cause there always seemed to be a gap in my mental health care that I couldn't figure out. I took treatment. I didn't relate to anything about the behaviours, but everything about the thoughts. Anecdotes from other patients that I so resonated with.