4 weeks ago I started a JCF/F3 in a medical specialty of a hospital I’ve worked in previously (but not in medicine). I don’t know if it’s nerves or what, but since the beginning of this job I have became a forgetful, clumsy nightmare. I drop things all the time (pens, phones, my stethoscope, blood trays), especially in front of the consultants. I am so forgetful of simple things, I have to ask for them to be repeated multiple times during ward rounds, and I’m now even forgetting basic medical concepts that I could previously recite in my sleep. I tried teaching some med students during the WR a week ago and I could barely recall anything. I already have diagnosed and medicated ADHD but things have never been this severe.
I would just try and grind through things to the end of the job but it looks like I’ll need to extend this JCF and I already know I’ve made a terrible impression. Has anybody experienced anything like this and how did you get through it?