2026
OPD wait study
Timed 86 morning patients. The bottleneck was the token window, not the doctor. Wrote a one-page note the unit still keeps at the desk.
- time-motion
- Excel
- one-page note
Clinical work,written for the next person on.
No extra adjectives. The file has to stand up in the round.
MBBS at Christian Medical College, Vellore. A research or public health internship, with an OPD wait study and two village camps already written down.
- 86 patients
- Timed in the morning OPD
- CMC Vellore
- MBBS
- Internship
- Research or public health
- Two villages
- Anemia camp with the PHC nurse
About
Tara Joseph
MBBS, Christian Medical College, Vellore
I write clinical and field work so the next person on can use the file. Recent pieces: an OPD wait study that found the token window, not the doctor; an anemia camp across two villages; a rheumatic fever write-up the consultant used on Friday round.
- Campus
- CMC Vellore
- Focus
- Community medicine
- Looking
- Research or public health
- Based
- Vellore
Wards and field
2025
Anemia camp, two villages
Helped run screening with the PHC nurse. Recorded who came back for iron, and who did not, without padding the count.
- field posting
- registers
- PHC
2025
Case write-up, rheumatic fever
A clear timeline for the ward file. The consultant used it in the Friday round.
- paediatrics
- ward notes
- timeline
Notes for the next person on
Mar 2026
The token window, not the doctor
Eighty-six clocks. The queue was already long before anyone reached the consult. The unit still keeps the one-pager at the desk.
Nov 2025
Who came back for iron
The camp count is easy. Follow-up is not. We wrote who returned, and who did not, without rounding the story up.
Aug 2025
A timeline that survived the round
Rheumatic fever only makes sense in order. The consultant asked for the file, not a speech.
Elsewhere
Contact
tara.joseph@example.eduOpen to a research or public health internship. Notes are one page unless the file needs more.