h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

On Monday I am taking a professional exam - discounting my evening class language tests, it's the first in about 38 years!

I've done the written assignment, now the MCQs & practical 'stations' to do. Hope they've got good aircon at the venue.

Surely you you had a professional exam before they operated on you ?

I think I was slightly more passive in that procedure!

So ? How did it go ?

Not too bad , thanks. At least not too hot going in so early & got a free bottle of water.
Multiple choice questions variable - some easy, some too ambiguous & some I just didn't have the knowledge to answer.

Practicals OK - we only had one real patient, the others were either actors or the examiner pretending to be a patient. Easy to think afterwards of things I should or shouldn't have said, but I think I will have managed a respectable pass. Have to wait about 4 weeks to hear results.

Shame they ran late so I missed one train & had nearly an hour to wait for the next. Got plenty of reading in!

If you do pass, what will you be qualified to do ?

Play doctors and nurses ?

I just get a certificate to show I've passed an MSc module in a subject area in which I specialise anyway....
So nothing new. I only did the course to get 'points' that we need to keep registered & it was being funded by my employers.

Do you need any qualifications to play doctors & nurses?

If you're playing with me you don't - just a strong stomach.

Just got provisional results - overall 79.7%. I'm pleased with that considering the lack of work I did!