Even though many of our graduates will have progressed in their careers since completing a case study, they are still of interest to students who wish to gain an understanding of the world of work.

Seeing, treating and caring for patients that require acute and urgent medical attention but cannot access an appointment with their GP or attend the local A+E.

Involves treating sick children, workers with variety of injuries including fractures of hands and limbs.

The interaction with people.

Anything can happen at any time! One minute I could be looking at a child with a fever, the next someone with a dislocated shoulder and the next someone having a heart attack. All in the same hour.

Variety of cases with good spectrum of pathology and illnesses.

What I learnt in medical school, communication, honing the medical knowledge gained since.

After leaving Sheffield the first time, I was a house officer in Stoke and Doncaster. I returned to Stoke-on-Trent to complete my basic surgical training, spent a year in London getting more surgical experience before returning to Sheffield to complete my doctorate, looking at cell surface receptors in breast and colorectal cancer. The hospital and political scene in the UK was getting bad so I left for New Zealand in 2008, where I have been ever since.

Getting the urgent care clinic set up properly in Silverdale; it's a new venture and so getting all the staff up to speed with the requirements. Also planning to continue conducting more clinically based research with some collaborators in Auckland, looking at the best way to treat a variety of conditions and if there are better options than what is currently available.

Think hard first. Politically, lots of changes are happening. It is more of a life long commitment to a certain extent. The best advice I got was if you weren't going to get paid, would you still do what you are doing work wise.