In Malta, for a brief period of rest and recuperation, it has been an utmost pleasure to spend Christmas and the New Year with friends and families (in the plural, as then there were two). It has provided time to step away from the daily grind, and allow for some thought and planning for the year ahead.New Year's is an arbitrary day more or less all of us take to think about what we'd like to

I'm sat in my living room, munching through a plate of imqarrun (baked pasta, to the non-natives), and surfing the internet before my shift starts this evening.It says a lot that in the run up to the election in the UK, an election in which I have a vote, I devote more reading time to the Maltese blogosphere than the British one. This does not in anyway denigrate the local scene; goodness knows

Over the past three months that I've been working in Urology, I've come to grips with the fact that I'm working in a hospital which is separate from the 'main' hospital. It's a small 187-bed hospital which houses ENT, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Urology and a number of MFE wards. The district general, on the other hand, has most of the general medical and surgical wards, and with them, ITU, A&E,

It's that time of year when 5th years back home in Malta face the very difficult decision of whether or not to kick off their career in medicine in Malta or elsewhere, namely the UK. By now, all successful applicants to the UKFPO have received their allocated rotas, and presumably have a deadline by which to accept or refute the job offer. I remember it well - I can't believe it's already a year

One of my favourite commentators on all things Maltese (and not) made a very poignant observation this morning in his Facebook stream; the national newspaper's editorial has finally made mention of the online fiasco that's been gripping the country for the past few weeks.Whether you admit it or not, it's impossible not to be mesmerized by the goings-on between magistrate and columnist, played out

Leafing through my RSS feeder this morning as I do every day, I came across an article published by the online branch of the Insiter. It briefs readers on the latest report issued by KSU's education commission; a report detailing students' feedback on the entire examination experience.The report(.pdf), which can be found online in KSU's document treasure trove, systematically deals with all of