00:00I was a dentist by trade. I graduated 23 years ago in dentistry. I'm married to Emma and we're very content and we have a very happy life with good family support. But in 2020 I decided I wanted to switch to medicine and I've had great support from everybody to do that. And I applied to the course here at McGee and I was very thankful to get a place. And I've worked hard for four years along with my classmates and it's been very successful.
00:26And Dan, what was your overall impression of the course? Not like this in Derry before, but it started from scratch, but everybody has a very good word on it.
00:37Yes, we were always told that it was a spiral curriculum and we would cover material and then come back to it, which you don't appreciate until you've actually been in it for four years and you realise that there's been a long material that's been really well covered and covered again and again and again
00:54until you start to remember it and understand it. So it's been very well designed. There's been ups and downs. It's been tough over some days harder than others and some dark mornings during the winter.
01:05Yeah, yeah.
01:06But today makes everything worth it.
01:08That's it. And I suppose when you came into it and you were doing your placements and things like that, it was probably the worst time that the medical profession locally had ever experienced.
01:17Well, it was strange because we were the first cohort. I got the impression that we were a massive boost to people and everybody was very excited to see us.
01:26Yes.
01:27And lots of our staff were working in hospitals and they'd be telling everybody we were coming.
01:31Yes.
01:31So we were very much a bit of a novelty and very much well received and everybody was very welcoming to us.
01:37Yeah, yeah. Excellent. And where to now for you?
01:39So I'm going to work in Antrim area hospital with my F1 job and in Nevada and North Belfast with my F2 job.
01:45Great.
01:45That's all very much what we're going to work on.
