Thursday, June 28, 2012
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Neuroscience Posting
Well. 2 weeks of neuroscience posting is DEFINITELY not enough! We got really a lot of stuffs to cover, not to mentioned to hectic classes and teachings and whatever in the timetable. Neuroscience is not an easy subject in medicine obviously. I could see that doctors were expecting us to remember the knowledge from phase 2 and to know how to interpret those radiographes. Well, honestly, and very obviously, i did really bad in it as I was so lazy to study (post-psychiatry posting syndrome). That's really bad, right?
And i just had my earliest class in my whole forth year. 7am class with Prof J! And i was late by 10 minutes lol. Luckily he didn't get angry and scold me. But anyhow, i was like a fool also during that teaching for rushing from ward to computer to clinic to books just to find the one question he asked me to find out. What a good exercise before my exam in the afternoon on the same day :S
Hey i am telling myself to be more hard-working in coming O&G posting! Good luck yeah! (I must to!!!)
And i just had my earliest class in my whole forth year. 7am class with Prof J! And i was late by 10 minutes lol. Luckily he didn't get angry and scold me. But anyhow, i was like a fool also during that teaching for rushing from ward to computer to clinic to books just to find the one question he asked me to find out. What a good exercise before my exam in the afternoon on the same day :S
Hey i am telling myself to be more hard-working in coming O&G posting! Good luck yeah! (I must to!!!)
Saturday, June 02, 2012
Psychiatry Posting
4 weeks? No, we got only 3 weeks as we had one week to get our butt lying at home! :)
Honestly, i was quite excited to enter this posting. It grabbed my interest the most compared to other postings so far. You don't study all those boring facts like you study in other posting. You don't clerk for history, you are just listening to stories. That's why i love clerking the patients in this posting lol :) Furthermore, you really have a lot more free time to do the things u like. Me? I finished 2 novels in 3 weeks time and watched a lot of doraemon lol haha.
Overall, it's quite free compared to other postings. As this is not the most important posting for our lives later as a doctor (unless you choose the psychiatry as specialty), doctor won't be expecting us to know too much about the knowledge here except those important ones. The doctors were so willing to teach us also. They discussed with us about the patients, asked for our opinions and listened to what we said. It made me feel like we were being appreciated. The leader also done a great job in managing the classes throughout the posting. Good job bro!
Enjoy the psychiatric posting if you haven't been through it. It's gonna to be happy posting!
Honestly, i was quite excited to enter this posting. It grabbed my interest the most compared to other postings so far. You don't study all those boring facts like you study in other posting. You don't clerk for history, you are just listening to stories. That's why i love clerking the patients in this posting lol :) Furthermore, you really have a lot more free time to do the things u like. Me? I finished 2 novels in 3 weeks time and watched a lot of doraemon lol haha.
Overall, it's quite free compared to other postings. As this is not the most important posting for our lives later as a doctor (unless you choose the psychiatry as specialty), doctor won't be expecting us to know too much about the knowledge here except those important ones. The doctors were so willing to teach us also. They discussed with us about the patients, asked for our opinions and listened to what we said. It made me feel like we were being appreciated. The leader also done a great job in managing the classes throughout the posting. Good job bro!
Enjoy the psychiatric posting if you haven't been through it. It's gonna to be happy posting!
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Medical Posting
Hmm, another terrible and busy posting.
Basically it was all about ward round, classes, and study study study. We actually needed to follow the ward round every morning but it was really time-wasting for me. I really hate the ward round as the doctors were so busy with their routines and didn't really teach us or guide us anything unless we asked question. Being proactive was really a good way (perhaps the only way) if you really want to learn something from them, but i am not that type of person obviously. For the first two weeks, i didn't hear any word from the registrar talking to us.
Basically it was all about ward round, classes, and study study study. We actually needed to follow the ward round every morning but it was really time-wasting for me. I really hate the ward round as the doctors were so busy with their routines and didn't really teach us or guide us anything unless we asked question. Being proactive was really a good way (perhaps the only way) if you really want to learn something from them, but i am not that type of person obviously. For the first two weeks, i didn't hear any word from the registrar talking to us.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
ORL-HNS posting
Another 3 weeks has passed. Quite a short posting.
ORL-HNS = Otorhinolaryngology - Head And Neck Surgery
Not to say it was an interesting posting, but not really boring either. As usual, it was packed with clinics and classes but without any oncall. People usually will say that it's a honeymoon posting, but for me, hmm, not really. We got to study quite a lot of anatomy and diseases in merely 3 weeks,
ORL-HNS = Otorhinolaryngology - Head And Neck Surgery
Not to say it was an interesting posting, but not really boring either. As usual, it was packed with clinics and classes but without any oncall. People usually will say that it's a honeymoon posting, but for me, hmm, not really. We got to study quite a lot of anatomy and diseases in merely 3 weeks,
Friday, February 17, 2012
ophthalmology posting + community eye service
It's was only a 3 weeks posting, but we learned a lot from it. As this posting was quite organized, we really could benefit a lot from it even though sometimes it was quite hectic. Doctors here was super nice. I could see they really put efforts in teaching us.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Orthopaedic Posting
Honestly, i don't really like orthopaedic stuffs. The feeling is like when i was studying physic in secondary school. (i don't like physic either).
Well, orthopedic was a totally different posting compared to surgery posting. I meant the the way how it was organized. Unlike surgery, everything has been arranged & scheduled nicely. Just that you got to wake up early to sign to your attendance before the clerk take away the attendance sheet. Next, you go for ward rounds, clinics, seminars and clinical teachings as scheduled, and also depending on which team you are in. After around 5pm, you will be allowed to go back and study at your room. I was in the spine team. The doctors were damn nice. They spoon-fed everything to us. The only drawback was i had to stick with spine things for 6 weeks, where i could hardly study stuffs from other teams. And i really hoped that my CT could be better. Almost every time doctor would be kept commenting on our history and after that, time was already spent up and he couldn't teach us much about PE. Till now, my PE still sucks!
Moreover, you may have to go for on-call occasionally if your team is in charged on that night. Luckily, i didn't have much on-calls, where i could have more free time for my study (or more time to waste?). Anyway, you can still learn a lot through on-call. you can see "fresh" cases like those mva cases in emergency ward, do dressing on those "fresh" wounds and learn the way how doctor manage the casualties there.
Hmm, not much 'great' procedures i have done in this posting. One STO, some dressings and assisted in some POPs. That's all. I knew that i should be more aggressive and asking more questions but honestly, i was quite tired with the log book requirements already and i chose not to chase blindly after signatures in log book. It was stupid attitude. And my reading was clearly not enough, most of the time i didn't really know what to ask and didn't even know what the doctors were talking about. Haiz. What a bad attitude!
My supervisor? Dr Halim, head of department! Omg! Till now, i am still scared of him. He scolded me few times during ward rounds as i couldn't cover my cases well. If i am smart enough to cover all cases fully and yet, manage to study well, i will definitely do it. But obviously i couldn't make it. I am so sorry to my doctors, and also my teammates, especially Prof Chong. My examiner? Dr Mohammad! Another scary doctor! Thanks god he was free finally after delaying for 3 times. I managed to answer those questions asked by him, even though i knew that my performance was just mediocre. Hopefully i was good enough to pass the posting.
Eventually, my turn to go home! My mood was so badly affected in the last week of orthopedic. I didn't really have the 'mood' to study for exam already. I missed my home sooooo much because i has been away from home for almost 5 months already. I felt so guilty for not studying well enough even though it was already the final week but i just couldn't control my mind. I needed a getaway and a nice rest after a long run in 4th year.
Therefore, as usual, i still couldn't manage to finish studying what i planned initially. Haiz. I knew i was quite lazy throughout this posting. Aargh! Got to be more hard-working next time!
Happy Chinese New Year and Happy Holiday to everyone! :D
Well, orthopedic was a totally different posting compared to surgery posting. I meant the the way how it was organized. Unlike surgery, everything has been arranged & scheduled nicely. Just that you got to wake up early to sign to your attendance before the clerk take away the attendance sheet. Next, you go for ward rounds, clinics, seminars and clinical teachings as scheduled, and also depending on which team you are in. After around 5pm, you will be allowed to go back and study at your room. I was in the spine team. The doctors were damn nice. They spoon-fed everything to us. The only drawback was i had to stick with spine things for 6 weeks, where i could hardly study stuffs from other teams. And i really hoped that my CT could be better. Almost every time doctor would be kept commenting on our history and after that, time was already spent up and he couldn't teach us much about PE. Till now, my PE still sucks!
Moreover, you may have to go for on-call occasionally if your team is in charged on that night. Luckily, i didn't have much on-calls, where i could have more free time for my study (or more time to waste?). Anyway, you can still learn a lot through on-call. you can see "fresh" cases like those mva cases in emergency ward, do dressing on those "fresh" wounds and learn the way how doctor manage the casualties there.
Hmm, not much 'great' procedures i have done in this posting. One STO, some dressings and assisted in some POPs. That's all. I knew that i should be more aggressive and asking more questions but honestly, i was quite tired with the log book requirements already and i chose not to chase blindly after signatures in log book. It was stupid attitude. And my reading was clearly not enough, most of the time i didn't really know what to ask and didn't even know what the doctors were talking about. Haiz. What a bad attitude!
My supervisor? Dr Halim, head of department! Omg! Till now, i am still scared of him. He scolded me few times during ward rounds as i couldn't cover my cases well. If i am smart enough to cover all cases fully and yet, manage to study well, i will definitely do it. But obviously i couldn't make it. I am so sorry to my doctors, and also my teammates, especially Prof Chong. My examiner? Dr Mohammad! Another scary doctor! Thanks god he was free finally after delaying for 3 times. I managed to answer those questions asked by him, even though i knew that my performance was just mediocre. Hopefully i was good enough to pass the posting.
Eventually, my turn to go home! My mood was so badly affected in the last week of orthopedic. I didn't really have the 'mood' to study for exam already. I missed my home sooooo much because i has been away from home for almost 5 months already. I felt so guilty for not studying well enough even though it was already the final week but i just couldn't control my mind. I needed a getaway and a nice rest after a long run in 4th year.
Therefore, as usual, i still couldn't manage to finish studying what i planned initially. Haiz. I knew i was quite lazy throughout this posting. Aargh! Got to be more hard-working next time!
Happy Chinese New Year and Happy Holiday to everyone! :D
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