What non-clinical lessons have you learned while on clinical placement? Blog editor at the BSDJ, Malaikah Khan, kicks off our new series with her experiences on her geriatrics placement and how she came to terms with her fears. As if being thrust into a clinical environment at the tender age of 20 wasn’t scary enough, being forced to face my most unexplainable fear was exactly the psychological turmoil I had expected of medical school. Beyond the unfamiliarity of new places,