It's Notts Just Physio
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It's Notts Just Physio
Education Placement Takeover - Josh & Sofia
Tune in to this insightful episode featuring two of our Year 3 students, Sofia Saavedra Adams and Josh Griffiths, as they continue the conversation around placement experiences. This time, the discussion is focused on the ‘5-9’ of placement—everything outside of work that contributes to a balanced and fulfilling experience.
From socialising and exercising to maintaining a healthy diet, they share practical tips on managing your lifestyle while on placement. They also touch on commuting to and from placement and the process of applying for the Learning Support Fund.
Whether you're about to start your placement or already navigating it, this episode is packed with valuable advice to help you thrive. Don't miss it!
It's Not Just Physio So, Sophia, my first question before we move on to the main part of the podcast is what is your favorite country you've ever visited? I
SPEAKER_02:mean, this might be a little bit biased, but probably Colombia, where I'm from. I mean, you can't beat the beaches. You can't beat the people, the food, just everything. What
SPEAKER_00:is your favorite Colombian food?
SPEAKER_02:It's got to be the thing called ajiaco, which is like a soup, a potato soup with chicken, avocado and like corn. It's just wholesome. and so good I won't try and
SPEAKER_00:repeat that one
SPEAKER_02:no
SPEAKER_00:okay so you may have listened to the first episode from this education placement team discussing the nine to five on placement all the boring stuff we're going to be following on with the placement theme but we're going to be discussing the five till nine we'll say so after placement or we may have included a bit before placement and how we manage our lives outside of placement so as I mentioned we are currently on the education placement and this is our fifth placement so the first question I have for you Sophia is how have you found the first week of this placement
SPEAKER_02:you know what it's kind of it's very different to any other placements we've ever had in that we're really on the other side of what's going on in the school I think definitely from this first week we appreciate a lot more everything that goes into I mean just today how many emails we've had 10 emails sent to us and that doesn't sound like a lot but I'm used to getting one a week
SPEAKER_00:and it's a Friday and it's a
SPEAKER_02:Friday and it just yeah it's constant work and I think that's one a big shocker we've just had a lot of meetings and a lot of planning for the lessons the students don't come back until next week so I think we're kind of happy that they're not back until next week so we have a bit of time to get our planning and things sorted but we're definitely looking forward to teaching because I think yeah it's been a little bit slow but it's still very interesting and very insightful. And how did you find it?
SPEAKER_00:I think Wednesday for me was like, obviously students, you associate Wednesday with being like off and we were in four, five meetings. So
SPEAKER_02:you're like,
SPEAKER_00:it just shows how much prep actually goes into running lectures and different things like that. And yeah, you do really appreciate how much lectures and people do for us students.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. And we had some really cool experience. We went to the vet school to learn about different types of teaching. I think that had to be a highlight for all of us. It was so interesting. The different teaching styles. Amy. Yeah. Yeah, she was incredible. One of the veterinary nurses and she showed us the veterinary school and her different ways of teaching that we can potentially use for our students when we see them next week.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I think the way she took like complex topics was like... anatomy of dogs which obviously we as physios have no idea about and she made it into a game talking about different like things that you'd associate with little little things that you just pick up on and then by the end of sort of half an hour we started to understand it and obviously by no means we could be a vet but we'd gone from a zero on our dogs anatomy to maybe a four
SPEAKER_02:out of ten
SPEAKER_00:yeah out of ten
SPEAKER_02:yeah no it was really interesting she basically took like um the insides the ultrasounds and made it compared it to food items um and that was just a really good way where we could like see it and understand it in a very simple way so something we can bring back to our our students when they have to learn anatomy maybe and kind of don't over complicate it and make it fun for them
SPEAKER_00:yeah make it something that you can you can link to
SPEAKER_02:so yeah that was it's been it's been an teaching first week but I'm glad to be teaching next week
SPEAKER_00:yeah perfect so moving on then what other placements have you been on and how did you find them what's your favourite
SPEAKER_02:so we've done four placements so I've had two MSK placements one was outpatients in Glenfield Hospital that was in Leicester the other one was at David Ross and then I've had an adult learning disability placement at Portland College in Mansfield and my last one my most recent one before this one health and care of older people in Nottingham City Hospital and honestly I've loved every single one of them yeah okay most of them but for the most part I just can't pick you know how they say you should specialise or whatever I can't pick at the moment because they've all been really different and I've enjoyed every single one of them
SPEAKER_00:what would you say is sort of the highlight of your placements what would you say is one you've been or something you don't enjoy about placements
SPEAKER_02:highlight of placements so my favorite placement was the adult learning disabilities and I think that the facilities that were in Portland College were really nice and I really enjoyed yeah I really enjoyed Portland College just in all the facilities they had they had a lot of hydrotherapy and I really enjoyed hydrotherapy especially how the specific clientele that we had kind of interact with the water because we had a lot of people with cerebral palsy and they tend to have a lot of spasticity and a lot of tightness and you can just see the way they relax in the and I found that really satisfying and very enjoyable being a part of that some of the things like is living away from home and commuting that's probably the worst bit what about you?
SPEAKER_00:yeah so I've done my first placement was at Notts County Football Club with the academy there I really enjoyed that it was quite a nice first placement because it wasn't too intense but I learnt a lot sort of anatomy really my anatomy really improved and just sort of how you how you communicate and getting used to being on placements that was a good one my second one was sports pod which is longitudinal placement with the university teams I enjoyed that in parts but then also it was quite slow at other times so I guess if you want to go into sports I would say it's a good thing I'm still undecided so my first two placements were both sports-based. My third placement was in Glenfield as well in Leicester, but I was on the renal wards. So that was, I really enjoyed that placement. My educator was brilliant. We had a good laugh whilst we were doing it. And that was quite a nice introduction to working in hospital. And then my fourth placement, so the first one of third year, I was in the community up towards sort of Chesterfield way and that was neuro so any sort of neuro patient stroke MS FND but it was sort of hybrid it was 50 50 with community and then we also had like an outpatients clinic um so that one yeah that was quite challenging I enjoyed it but it was tough and you'd see a lot of complex patients so yeah um
SPEAKER_02:what was your would you say your favourite
SPEAKER_00:oh that's tough um Not to count it was good, but it was quite repetitive. And maybe renal at Glenfield. Obviously, I went into renal and I was like, how does a physio do renal? And it was getting people out of bed, but it was a lot of discharge planning, so it was quite satisfying. Patients in renal are quite often in and out because they need dialysis and things like that. But when you've managed to get them home, it was quite a nice feeling and just the people I worked with the team was really helpful erm not laid back but erm It was good fun. It wasn't too serious. You'd take the job seriously with patience, obviously. But in the meantime, you'd have a laugh. And I think you need that with any sort of job, really.
SPEAKER_02:Well, because we were talking about this earlier, that it makes such a difference having a good educator and having an educator that you get along with.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Because that's the same thing in elderly care. I didn't think I was going to like it that much. But my educator was so lovely. And I feel because he was passionate about it and he enjoyed the job, it made me enjoy it too. So yeah, it does make a big difference having a nice team.
SPEAKER_00:I think I want to take that forward into my own practice. If I have a student one day, I think if you're too serious, if you're not letting the student learn for themselves and just telling them this is this, you need to know this, it just doesn't work very well and the student's not going to enjoy it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_02:So
SPEAKER_00:you said you lived out for your first placement?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:In Leicester, how did you find that?
SPEAKER_02:That was a tough one. I think in your second year it was my first placement and I don't drive or at the time I didn't drive so I had to then you know live in Leicester and that was just really tough I think it was also winter it was really dark so I spent I booked an Airbnb which was like a communal Airbnb where I had my own bathroom and bedroom but a shared kitchen with other students from University of Leicester and that was really hard hard because I'd finished work at 5 get back home at 6 it was dark and I didn't really feel safe to go out in the evening so I spent a lot of my time just in my Airbnb and at the hospital and it was difficult but I think one of the benefits or one of the ways I managed it was I was really glad that I had those other students in the accommodation with me even though they were strangers I'm quite a social person so I managed to like talk to them and they were so lovely one of them ended up cooking me dinner one night like a full Nepalese dinner yeah beef stew and everything so I was that kind of helped slight the social aspect where I couldn't go back home as much and I couldn't see my friends having the people at the hospital and having someone to talk to even if it wasn't anybody I really knew I just had somebody yeah and I just I couldn't go to the gym or anything like that either. So a lot of home workouts. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Is there any other tips to make yourself feel more comfortable?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, absolutely. So one of the things I did, mainly because the bedding was absolutely disgusting in the Airbnb, but I brought my own bedding and sheets and blankets from home and I brought a few plants and lamps and things.
SPEAKER_00:Sort of decorated it. Yeah, just
SPEAKER_02:because it was a tiny room and I just felt... it just felt like some place I was just sleeping for the night and so in my second week I brought all these things over and it made me feel so much more homely it made me feel happier to get to stay there in the evenings and it felt more comforting so
SPEAKER_00:did you get the train there and back each weekend
SPEAKER_02:or yeah so I did that's one of the good things so the accommodation the what's it called
SPEAKER_00:learning support yeah the learning
SPEAKER_02:support fund yeah that provides kind of one train back home each week so I took full advantage of that went back to Notts every weekend. And I then managed to tell my flatmates, let's do something on those weekends because I'm going to be back. But yeah, the learning support fund, that was really good. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to afford going back every weekend.
SPEAKER_00:We'll talk about that a little bit more later on and how that works. So I obviously was in the same hospital at Glenfield in Leicester, but I drove it. So it was about 45 minutes there. 45 minutes back each day which some mornings it feels really long but I would personally I'd prefer that rather than having to move out and if you're a bit of a nervous driver or you don't like driving then I would probably recommend moving out but I don't mind driving just get some music on or a podcast or whatever what
SPEAKER_02:are your podcast recommendations
SPEAKER_00:it's not just physios
SPEAKER_02:of course yeah
SPEAKER_00:yeah no it depends what you're sometimes listening to a physio podcast and then you can even go in and tell your educator oh I've just listened to this podcast and it's a bit of little tick box yeah a little bit of a win win and then I also commuted up to Chesterfield every day but that was a community placement so I was driving around a lot there as well so I covered a serious amount of miles on that placement and at times I think this was the one thing I didn't really enjoy about this placement was that at times it felt like I was more a taxi driver than a a physio I'd spend hours in the car a day which as I said I don't mind driving but for some people I think that would be like their idea of hell
SPEAKER_02:so what do you do in between going to patients to patients did you a lot of podcasts and a lot of
SPEAKER_00:yeah so ours was different obviously as I said it was hybrid so there was some inpatient like outpatient clinics so people come in to see us or sometimes we go to people's houses if we had to go to everyone's house I think I would have been really bored of driving but sometimes you'd have like maybe three patients come into clinic in the afternoon so then you're not driving as much but yeah I'd just get some music on make a good playlist for the placement that would be one tip if you're going to drive have a good playlist or make sure you know a few good podcasts to listen to and just otherwise you're just sat and you're like, oh, it's boring.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, just keep it occupied
SPEAKER_00:at home. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, because I didn't have to, I had a really big commute. So when I worked at Portland College in Mansfield, again, I didn't have my driving licence yet. And so I did commute. I didn't want to live out again because I just felt like I had a lot of things in Nottingham that I still wanted to stay for. Yeah. So I commuted more than an hour each way. I took a tram to town. because I was living in Beeston at the time, and then a bus to Portland College, and that was about an hour and a half. Luckily, my placement started at nine, so I could kind of just about make
SPEAKER_01:it. If
SPEAKER_02:it was eight, I would have been waking up way too early.
SPEAKER_01:And
SPEAKER_02:then, you know, just a long commute back, I kind of did the same thing. A lot of podcasts, a lot of listening to music, just to keep myself entertained along the way, really, and feel like it's not wasting the time either.
SPEAKER_00:you've got to try and be productive yeah
SPEAKER_02:like you've got you've got that it's like an hour and a half if you were at home you might be studying you might be doing something else so listening to podcasts was always a good one to feel like I'm not wasting the time
SPEAKER_00:yeah so yeah on the learning support it's changed now so it used to be a form but it's now through the learning support fund account and you can claim back all of your accommodation so you claim back
SPEAKER_02:yeah so I claim back my Airbnb I claim back the bus rides to and from the hospital a train back each weekend like once a week yeah pretty much all those things
SPEAKER_00:it is good to support you guys and the university are good with helping you claim that back because obviously they know it can be expensive I spent a silly amount on fuel on my last placement but I got it all back and you do make a bit of money on it as well because they know you You have to look after your car and things. So definitely, if you're going on to placement, make sure you're claiming back any money and the grant you get from the NHS is to cover that. So you obviously have to fork out quite a bit of money for accommodation.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, my Airbnb was quite expensive and they wanted a big deposit. They wanted to pay me up front. So if you're using your maintenance loan, that would be a huge chunk of that and you wouldn't have enough money to feed yourself or just have a good quality of life. So that is kind of what the loan is for. Yeah, the grant is for that you can at least, you're going to get it back anyway, but you don't want it to come out of your food money really.
SPEAKER_00:Or freeze your account and go too much into your overdraft.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. So we've sort of covered, I would say, the
SPEAKER_02:more
SPEAKER_00:boring side.
SPEAKER_02:Well, we hope so.
SPEAKER_00:Well, we hope you found it interesting. Or at least
SPEAKER_02:educational,
SPEAKER_00:because some tips. Yeah, pick a few things about living out or travelling or getting your money back. So... We're going to talk a little bit more about social life and placement now and any little tips you have. So my first question to you and I think it's really important is how do you stay fit and healthy on placement in terms of your exercise but also your mental health?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah so for me obviously and I think for a lot of people if I don't exercise I feel like my mental health dips a bit and obviously it's very linked. So when I lived in Leicester I did find it very difficult and then I just kind of had to adapt a bit so instead of going to the gym I just did a home workout so even if it was a tiny space I just took some weights from back home like 2kg, 4kg, whatever and just moved a bit to be honest and even that little bit of movement and some squats and some star jumps or whatever it was I did helped so much in kind of releasing me for the day and I just felt like I could just continue on and living there for the five weeks
SPEAKER_00:I think if I had to move out I'd still struggle with that so I would go out of my way to maybe get like a pure gym membership for a month or a gym group membership for a month and although it may not be ideal you might have to walk a bit I'd do that because I'd rather have to sacrifice maybe 10 minutes of a walk than my mental health like exercise is so important for your mental health so I'd just say make sure you're going to the gym or going on a run or going on a walk before or after placement just so placement isn't the only thing in your day
SPEAKER_02:yeah absolutely so even now when we're living you know in Nottingham we both try to go to the gym in the morning or the afternoon just to keep a little bit active to I especially find like a walk after placement because placement can be really draining so just even walking back home instead of you know taking
SPEAKER_00:the bus
SPEAKER_02:just kind of help you just relax and when you get home you feel like you can do a little bit more
SPEAKER_00:yeah if you've had a tough day on placement I would always say go for a walk go for a run and just get a bit of fresh air and then the other tip I would say is speak to people so whether it's friends or if you're living with other physios or other people on your course speak to them even sometimes I find people that have no idea so my family I find it really helpful if I've had a tough day to speak to them because they're coming at it from a different angle and they'll just tell you how it is and that it's alright but they're not putting the clinical side on it let's say and then obviously you have the lecturer support here so you've got your tutors and you also have your educator in placement that you can always speak to or your university linked tutor or just anyone you feel comfortable with at university they're not going to say no to speaking to them.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, absolutely. My, my flatmates were actually quite a good support for me. Both of them, two of them are medical students, so they understand clinical placements. They really get it. So talking to them and being like, oh, I'm really struggling with this. They're like, they gave me their own tips. They were like, you know, uh, just go out and have a walk or, uh, planning your meals or something like that.
SPEAKER_01:Um,
SPEAKER_02:and I felt like they sometimes just knew they could just sit and be like, yeah, actually today was a let's just watch something
SPEAKER_00:yeah watch a film something like that so we've talked about exercise but we're now going to talk about another important thing which is food so do you meal prep or how do you go about it on placement
SPEAKER_02:on placement I definitely try to meal prep so I will just have Sunday as like my batch cooking day I was telling you I bought like a kilo of chicken and woke up early and just cooked I personally like cooking so I find like quite relaxing and I can I like planning my meals and having it
SPEAKER_00:organized
SPEAKER_02:it and I especially find lunch because I'm like I hate nothing more than going to placement forgetting my lunch and being so hungry it just makes me cranky so I'd rather just I'd rather plan my lunches and then dinner can be a bit more on the go
SPEAKER_00:yeah I'm the same I'll cook on a Sunday and it's it's a bit of a battle in our house we've got four physios so it's like everyone's trying to cook on a Sunday it's carnage but you can make it work and I also prep food for after placement too so I'll prep my lunch I'll get home and I'll have something else prep whether it's I don't know a bagel ham and cheese bagel very simple but it just keeps you going and the last thing you want to do is when you get back from placement you have to make some food so you just grab it out of the fridge eat that quick and then you can go to the gym you can go and do anything it's just a way I've found that saves so much time
SPEAKER_02:I feel like i've never been so hungry that i am after placement because we finish at four or five and i'm just absolutely starving
SPEAKER_00:it's too early it's too early for
SPEAKER_02:dinner so i'm just like i need to eat something right now so i have like a little little yogurt or something like that um
SPEAKER_00:yeah the other thing i want to obviously if you do forget your lunch a lot of the hospitals have a good canteen and it's normally pretty cheap for students they'll be pretty i know here at qmc they have two pound meals for students and staff and you can't complain at all
SPEAKER_02:it's two pounds you really like it's really good i mean it's good for two pounds
SPEAKER_00:great value for money
SPEAKER_02:and warm
SPEAKER_00:yeah it's warm and the lasagna
SPEAKER_02:is actually really good
SPEAKER_00:bit of garlic bread as well
SPEAKER_02:okay fine what's your favorite like uh prepped meal to make
SPEAKER_00:Probably what I had this week, chicken pesto pasta. Boring. No, but you get a bit of mozzarella on top, you give it a bake, and it's... You just can't go wrong with it. It's
SPEAKER_02:such a student meal.
SPEAKER_00:It's healthy as well. You get some spinach in there, onions.
SPEAKER_02:I didn't see any spinach in yours.
SPEAKER_00:There was. 100% there was. What about you?
SPEAKER_02:I... Chili con carne. You can't go wrong.
SPEAKER_00:How can you say that? Mine's boring, but chili's not boring.
SPEAKER_02:You can spice it up.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, with chili flakes, but...
SPEAKER_02:Chili, cumin turmeric you add a little bit of things paprika you can add in there too beans you've got to get the mixed bean can chuck that in because you can make a batch for like 10
SPEAKER_00:yeah you can freeze it freeze any food left over and then you can just take it in for lunch one day
SPEAKER_02:or I mean to be fair like Korean chicken or something like that
SPEAKER_00:like a little bit spicy yeah I know I'm getting a little bit snacky so how do you sort of manage your social life on placement then so obviously students well known for going out Nottingham bit of a crazy place what do you do on placement do you go out
SPEAKER_02:no I mean okay no that's a lie I don't go out in the sense that of like partying and things that's just me personally I do occasionally mainly with my touch rugby team so I usually just tell the team I'm like listen this these five weeks I'm not going to be going out I'm not going to be staying out late I might not even be able to make training sometimes or I'm late for training and generally they're very understanding I just tell them like yeah sometimes I just don't have the energy for it and they completely understand although they do know obviously it's still important to go training occasionally to get that exercise and I often just don't say yes
SPEAKER_00:yeah don't feel you have so yeah
SPEAKER_02:yeah my friends are like just saying oh let's do this let's do that and I'm like listen I'm tired like not this week not this couple weeks um let's do something a bit more chill let's do something inside um so I often with my flatmates we'll just have like an arts and crafts or a movie or something that's still social that's not gonna go outside and make me go to bed at 1am
SPEAKER_00:yeah sleep's so important isn't it yeah good sleep on placement
SPEAKER_02:sleep and food honestly without those two I'm just cranky so
SPEAKER_00:sleep food exercise yeah that's basically why we made this podcast yeah pretty
SPEAKER_02:much
SPEAKER_00:yeah I think very similar don't really go out in the week it is easier for me I think a massive benefit of living with not even just physios but other healthcare students is they're in the same boat so if we haven't been out well we don't go out in the week really maybe we'll be like do you fancy going out this weekend and because we live with physios or healthcare students, normally everyone's like, yeah, so that's a way of doing it. But then also, so for example, in the summer last year, when did we finish, July?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Late.
SPEAKER_00:So there wasn't many people around, but when we get back from placement and it was sunny, we basically just whack a barbecue on, another way of doing it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Good bit of socialising, can play a bit of football or whatever, have a mess about, but you're not going to wake up the next morning and be tired or anything like
SPEAKER_02:that yeah I mean absolutely the weekends are the best time to do it because that's a nice thing about placements almost is that you finish and you don't have anything on that weekend unlike being a student where you've got work kind of constantly yeah go get your friends be like actually instead of doing something during the week let's do something on the weekend let's hang out let's do anything like a barbecue is such a great idea especially during the summer but yeah go going out late try I would say our tip is probably just try to still stay super social but just in smaller batches maybe instead of long nights just cut it down see if you can see a friend for an hour even if it's just for coffee or a smoothie or whatever
SPEAKER_00:even if yeah but it's just about getting into a routine isn't it I quite enjoy getting into a routine so maybe I'll wake up early go to the gym go to placement come home go for a walk and I think you've got to get used to that because most people will be doing that most of their life they'll be in a nine till five or an eight till four for us or whatever and you just have to find time to do the things you want to do outside of work and just try and enjoy the routine I know I do
SPEAKER_02:yeah I mean same I think I think what a lot of people struggle with is is like that FOMO
SPEAKER_01:yeah
SPEAKER_02:you know all their friends they're having a great time it's still Christmas it's you know they're or whatever they're they're going out all the time and I think a lot of people can really struggle seeing their friends do that honestly you're you're not missing out there's so many other opportunities and it's just five weeks after that go free do it you're not missing out on anything massive massive
SPEAKER_00:have you got any tips for not getting pharma
SPEAKER_02:yeah I just say one social media it's like if you if you just take a little bit of a chill pill on the social media maybe for the five weeks so you don't you're not looking on what your friends are posting as much that's fine also still like I said I still say social just do other social things instead of you know big events just do other little social things just to keep yourself from feeling lonely rather than like big things but I don't know
SPEAKER_00:I agree 100% yeah yeah
SPEAKER_02:just
SPEAKER_00:your own placement that's the way it is that's the way it is
SPEAKER_02:and it is I can't stress it it's only for five weeks those five weeks fly by yeah they do they literally like zoom by by the next thing you know you're absolutely free to do whatever you want really so I promise you you're not missing out on anything anything massive and the experience you're getting in placement is invaluable really yeah
SPEAKER_00:that's why you do most of your learning you put it into practice so just enjoy placement really just to round off really any Final tips for students who are about to go on to placement, maybe their first placement, or even if they just want a little recap of how to approach placement. Yeah,
SPEAKER_02:absolutely. So I think kind of the take home message, I guess, is obviously placement is important, but it's not everything. It really isn't. And your physical and mental health have to come first because you're not going to be you're not going to enjoy placement as much you're not going to get as much from it you're
SPEAKER_01:not going to you might not even
SPEAKER_02:turn up if you don't take care of yourself so like it is it is 100% I've done it where I've not done it taking care of myself and it just it doesn't benefit anyone really
SPEAKER_00:yeah for me I would say just enjoy it be open and honest with yourself but also your educator so I heard stories and you always hear it you're like oh your first placement tomorrow you're going to be treating a patient and you're like personally that didn't happen to me if someone threw me in at the deep end and i didn't feel comfortable i'd just be honest and say look i don't feel comfortable with that and i think it is good to you don't want to sit around for five weeks you want to you do want to throw yourself in the deep end but just make sure you're comfortable with it and if you don't know something that is fine but don't pretend that you do know it just say to your educator and yourself i don't know this I'm going to go and find out. And that's where a little bit of your work comes in outside of placement and you can do all your reflections on that and things like that.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I mean, that's a lot. Just be healthy.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, stay healthy. So I hope you enjoyed this podcast with me and Sophia. And I hope it helps if you're going on to placement, if you're going on to whether it's your first, whether it's your last. Hopefully you've took maybe a little tip from that. And thank you for listening.
SPEAKER_02:Thank you.
