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Edward Hatfield

Edward Hatfield

Hi, my name is Ed - I'm one of the Year 3 students involved in the CARER pilot and am part of the Aberystwyth team. I signed up to try CARER because it looked like it would suit me and that I would learn things I really value academically like good, routine clinical technique and natural patient rapport. I knew nothing about Aberystwyth before deciding to move there for the year, but some quick research revealed a university town in a stunning setting between the coast to the West and hills and valleys to the East. Originally I hail from Kent and outside studying I like cross-country running, as well as cooking and reading.

Latest posts

Thinking back

Posted on 27 August 2020 by Edward Hatfield

The third year of studying medicine at Cardiff is where you start your clinical placement. Sometimes this conjures up images for the public of smartly dressed young men in pressed […]

Travel North in May

Travel North in May

Posted on 19 May 2019 by Edward Hatfield

Aberystwyth’s weather changes quickly. This can be charming – even refreshing – or it can be depressing, depending on whether it was a) windy and freezing when you woke up […]

The Humble G.P.

Posted on 20 April 2019 by Edward Hatfield

Ladies and gentlemen, I have been studying for some time the noble and gentle species of doctor which is today properly named the Practitionerum Generale – I think the popular […]

February, Aberystwyth

Posted on 8 March 2019 by Edward Hatfield

February has come and gone in what feels like no time at all. In fact, it is already fading in my mind as a blurred combination of all the patients […]

An average day in January

Posted on 1 February 2019 by Edward Hatfield

There would be many questions in my head if I were beginning something like the CARER year 3 – questions I might ask someone that was already doing it, for […]

The New Year

The New Year

Posted on 7 January 2019 by Edward Hatfield

Only a few days into the new year and December feels like it was long ago. Being a student at Christmas time is strange, as nothing happens at the right […]

November in Review

November in Review

Posted on 4 December 2018 by Edward Hatfield

Well met, reader! Not long until Christmas... We are further into Winter. My nose runs; the house freezes around us. In the mornings I drive to Mach wearing my coat […]

Octoberystwyth

Octoberystwyth

Posted on 6 November 2018 by Edward Hatfield

Dear reader, you might be thinking, “oh no, not again. Here goes that eccentric student, sounding off about god-knows-what.” If you weren’t thinking it, you are now, because you just […]

Welcome to Aberystwyth

Welcome to Aberystwyth

Posted on 8 October 2018 by Edward Hatfield

  When I decided to try to write about our time here in Aberystwyth and about what this pilot for CARER was like I didn’t realise what I’d let myself […]