Friendo's what up this week?

Welcome to another week of weekly updates in February. If you ever struggle to find the latest proposed rotations, leave roster and call roster - just bear in mind that you will be able to find it, right here on the newsletter website!

A smol count down for all our FCA 1 candidates. Please keep them in mind while they are preparing for the last and final push before writing the exams next week! Everyone copes differently with different stressors on their own plates, let's please just be a bit more lenient on our friends during this time.

Monday

While being lenient, I'd like to share on a mental health aspect - Setting boundaries: #ProteccYourself

Setting boundaries is essential for maintaining healthy relationships and protecting your mental well-being. Here are some tips to help you set and enforce them effectively:

1.    Identify Your Limits

Reflect on what makes you feel uncomfortable, drained, or resentful. Consider emotional, physical, time, and mental boundaries.

2.     Communicate Clearly & Directly

Use "I" statements: "I feel overwhelmed when I take on too many tasks. I need to limit my workload." Be firm but polite—no need to over-explain or apologize.

3.     Start Small

If setting boundaries feels difficult, practice in low-stakes situations before tackling bigger issues.

4.     Be Consistent

If you let people push your boundaries once, they may try again. Stay firm and follow through.

5.     Learn to Say No Without Guilt

No is a complete sentence. You don’t have to justify your decisions. Offer alternatives when appropriate: "I can’t help today, but I can check in later this
week."

6.     Recognize Guilt but Don’t Give In

Feeling guilty at first is normal, but prioritizing yourself isn’t selfish.

7.     Enforce Consequences

If someone repeatedly disregards your boundaries, follow through with consequences (e.g., reducing interactions, stepping away from situations).

8.     Surround Yourself with Supportive People

Spend time with those who respect and uplift you.

9.     Practice Self-Care

Setting boundaries is emotionally taxing, so take care of yourself afterward.

10.  Adjust as Needed

Boundaries can evolve based on your needs and life circumstances.

#DineInTuesdays

For everyone that does want to look good but doesn't want to sacrifice on taste (I can relate)

10 recipes in this quick 30 minute videos

Breakfast Burrito for 430 calories depending on your wrap

French toast for 238 to 400 calories

Sausage McMuffin for 435 calories

Chicken burger for 439 calories

Chicken quesadillas for 377 calories

Cheese burger for 541 calories

Quesabirria tacos for only 203 calories

Orange chicken for 281 calories

Peanut noodles for 530 to 873 calories

Pizza for 224 calories

Nysora highlight

Basics of Ultrasound: Pitfalls and Limitations - NYSORA

Ultrasound has been used to image the human body for over half a century. Dr. Karl Theo Dussik, an Austrian neurologist, was the first to apply ultrasound as a medical diagnostic tool to image the brain [1]. Today, ultrasound (US) is one of the most widely used imaging technologies in medicine. It is portable, free of radiation risk, and relatively inexpensive when compared with other imaging modalities, such as magnetic resonance and computed tomography. Furthermore, US images are tomographic, i.e., offering a “cross-sectional” view of anatomical structures. The images can be acquired in “real-time,” thus providing instantaneous visual guidance for many interventional procedures including those for regional anesthesia and pain management. In this chapter, we describe some of the fundamental principles and physics underlying US technology that are relevant to the pain practitioner. 1. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF B-MODE US Modern medical US is performed primarily using a pulse-echo approach with a brightness-mode (B-mode) display. The basic principles of B-mode imaging are much the same today as they were several decades ago. This involves transmitting small pulses of ultrasound echo from a transducer into the body. As the ultrasound waves penetrate body tissues of different acoustic impedances along the path of transmission, some is reflected back to the transducer (echo signals), and some continue to penetrate deeper. The echo signals returned from many sequential coplanar pulses are processed and combined to generate an image. Thus, an ultrasound transducer works both as a speaker (generating sound waves) and a microphone (receiving sound waves). The ultrasound pulse is in fact quite short, but since it traverses in a straight path, it is often referred to as an ultrasound beam. The direction of ultrasound propagation along the beamline is called the axial direction, and the direction in the image plane perpendicular to axial is called […]

NYSORANYSORA

A small refresher from our beloved ultrasound website. In light of FCA 1 candidates writing, hoping that this can be a quick refresher for your studying

ATOTW reading

Cerebral Oximetry—An Introduction

Cerebral Oximetry—An Introduction : Virtual Library |

WFSA Resource Libraryadammsiziyahoo.com

This week I had the pleasure to use our NIRS in theatre 16 with Dr Sookur which brought some physics throwback - Beer-lambert law from Physics FCA 1 (just a smog through back though. Would probably not be able to answer anything regarding it in morning meetings LOL)

Friday

A huge thank you for Ms lover of Pink Pony Club, Dr Marde van Dyk for confirmation of these tuts digitally. As scheduled. These are the tuts scheduled for this coming Friday

Thank you for reading!

Please stay in tune for socials planned by our beloved registrar teams and class reps!