In 2015 the AIMES Supreme Award was won by young Forrest Hill Doctor Carl Hume. Carl also won the AIMES Education Award. Looking at what he has achieved in his 25 years, it is very clear to see why Carl was chosen as the AIMES Supreme Award winner in 2015.
Carl graduated from The University of Auckland in 2015, with an exemplary university record and a multitude of research papers already produced. In 2014, he was awarded the prestigious Deans Prize as the medical student to have achieved the highest overall grade in his year, and the Alice Bush Memorial Prize for being the paediatrics department’s top performing student. The year before, he was given the Department of Anaesthesiology Prize for achieving the highest grades in the anaesthetics component of the degree in 2013. He maintained a grade average between A and A+ throughout his university studies and he received distinctions for performance in every one of his clinical years.
Carl's medical interests lay, primarily, in academic neurosurgery. In late 2015 he presented some of his research at the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia’s Annual Conference, being invited by a
specialist neurosurgeon to present alongside him. He has engaged in much research throughout his six year medicine degree, choosing to delve into such areas as reproductive technology, ethics concerning end of life care and non-speaking patients, and infection control.
Aidan Bennett caught up with Carl in late 2016 to see what he has been up to in the 12 months since he picked up his AIMES Awards.
AIDAN BENNETT: What have you been up to since receiving your AIMES Awards in 2015?
CARL HUME: I have been working at North Shore Hospital in medicine and surgery, as well as editing a couple of my papers from medical school. I am still living in Forrest Hill, though currently I am travelling to Middlemore hospital for work in the High Dependency Unit (HDU).
AB: What did the funds enable you to do?
CH: I have used them to book in to a number of training courses that will assist me in gaining access to vocational training - these include an introduction to the practice of anaesthetics, care for the critically ill, and advanced paediatric life support. It has also eased the pressure of my gargantuan student loan!
AB: What are you future goals in your career?
CH: I am now planning on pursuing anaesthetics, and applications for the next step open 2017. All going well I will be working as a senior house officer in anaesthetics come the end of 2017/beginning of 2018. I am also involved in a new study looking at managment of the glamorous problem that is constipation.
AB: Any interesting travels for you and Fleur this year or any planned for next year?
CH: Other than travelling to Wellington for one of the aforementioned courses, we are planning on renting a bach somewhere nice (up north) at a point during the summer. Otherwise my work and Fleur's study will keep us fairly close by.
Carl received $30,000 worth of AIMES Awards grants in 2015. $15,000 for the Kristin School-sponsored Education Award and a further $15,000 for the Supreme Award.
