{"id":119860,"date":"2020-11-18T15:24:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T14:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=119860"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:25:14","slug":"three-weeks-in-the-shadow-of-ernst-kuipers-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-standard-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2020\/11\/18\/three-weeks-in-the-shadow-of-ernst-kuipers-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-standard-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Three weeks in the shadow of Ernst Kuipers: there is no such thing as a standard day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Medical student Machteld van Rooijen shadowed Ernst Kuipers, the chair of the Erasmus MC Executive Board, for three weeks. She was present at press conferences, a work visit by a politician and even a photo shoot on the helicopter deck of the hospital. Not exactly a daily occurrence during your residency.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI signed a non-disclosure agreement, so I have to be careful that what I say is not sensitive information,\u201d Machteld warns a number of times before she starts talking about her residency. For three weeks, she spent time with, among others, Ernst Kuipers, the chair of the Executive Board of the largest hospital in the Netherlands and chair of the Landelijk Netwerk Acute Zorg (National Network Acute Care), to name but a few of his many tasks. \u201cHe does make time to answer your questions, but because he has such a busy schedule, you sometimes have to settle for a somewhat more concise answer before his personal secretary calls him to his next appointment.\u201d<\/p>\n

No such thing as a standard day <\/h2>

\u201cI heard via via from someone that a residency was opening up at the Erasmus MC Executive Board, which was for the social medicine study block. That sounded really interesting to me, so I took the plunge and just went and approached the Executive Board and asked them if there was any room for me to do a residency with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that was allowed: From October 5 to 22, Machteld followed around one of the Dutch cabinet\u2019s most important partners in the fight against corona. \u201cIt would be difficult for me to describe a standard day; the days are incredibly varied. On Monday and Thursday, Ernst Kuipers does standardly hold those press conferences.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to Kuipers\u2019 busy schedule, the days themselves were also very long: \u201cHis days really are from eight o\u2019clock in the morning until nine o\u2019clock in the evening. I usually didn\u2019t stay that long, so I would go home around six o\u2019clock.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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