One year later: on the frontline of the first wave
In March 2020, Dr Victoria Tippett (Consultant in Respiratory Medicine at Aintree Hospital and Director of Medical Education & Educator Development in the School of Medicine) maintained a video diary that documented her experience while working at Aintree Hospital during the first wave of the pandemic.
The vlog was created to assist Year 2 student doctors who were no longer able to attend the hospital on clinical placement.
As this week marks the one-year point since Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the first national lockdown in the country, this vlog has been compiled to show the reality many healthcare workers have faced up and down the country during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Watch: Dr Victoria Tippett captures her experience of hospital life during the first wave of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Dr Tippett said:
"It was March 2020, when our Year 2 student doctors were coming to the end of their 4th week of clinical placement, that they were informed of their move to online learning due to the evolving coronavirus pandemic."
As their placement lead at Aintree I was keen to help them feel connected with events as they evolved and maintain the connection with the NHS they had so recently begun to feel part of.
"With the support of the University Year 2 team, I began recording a short weekly vlog. The series ran until the end of their academic year, and followed the progress of the pandemic from my perspective professionally as a Consultant Respiratory Physician but also as a human facing enormous change."
I hope that these edited highlights, as well as offering a retrospective of the time, give student doctors an insight into the events that have shaped the NHS they find in 2021.
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