Fam Med

So begins my 3rd posting, Family Medicine posting.


So far, the first week has been lectures, lectures and nothing else. Boring.

But hopefully next week things will pick up when I get attached to the Klinik Kesihatan Seremban.

It's supposedly the easiest posting, so hopefully I can do well in this posting, especially since I haven't been doing well theory wise for the first 2 postings.

I leave you with some recent pictures of mine.

p.s. I have been gaining weight. Yikes!

Lazy me

I'm supposed to be happy....it's the start of a brand new posting tomorrow. And the supposedly easiest and most relaxing posting- Family Medicine.

Well, I'm glad that Surgery and Internal Medicine postings are over, and that all I have left of semester 6 is Family Medicine.

But still, I feel lazy to come back to Seremban. A one week holiday/ break just isn't enough!
I feel like I had not enough rest.

How is lazy me going to be an intern, ermm....I mean houseman like this? :p

One week holiday...a much needed break.

Been resting a home, watching Grey's with mum, doing IM and practising IV injections in mum's shop, etc. And going online, uploading long overdue photos to Facebook (I found my camera cable, yay!). And my newest addiction on Facebook, Pet Society. I love my Ailee :)
Released my pet tortoise, Kelly, yesterday. To symbolize freedom. Am going to get a new pet tortoise today, and going to name it Izzie. (Here's to hoping it doesn't get sick like Izzie).

And I have a brand new haircut!

Who knew that doing good to others can backfire on you? Who knew that a gesture of kindness to some people turns out to be an inconviencence to others? I just want to do good, I just want to be a kind person, but in the end, I made a big mistake by being kind.

lazy.....

I'm getting lazier and lazier to blog. I somehow find Facebook, watching my favourite shows which I download and listening to romantic songs on Youtube more exciting past times compared to blogging. <_< I need some sort of motivation to blog again!

Anyways, if last week we had only one case presentation, which resulted in me waking up not so early almost every morning and feeling lazy, this two weeks will be the busiest weeks I've had so far. Clerking patients, then case presentations , then TBLs, then studying for upcoming exams in 2 weeks time. So much to study, so little time!

I had my 2nd Mini CEX today, which went ok, I was systemic in my physical examination, but I moved the patient too many times. And had to be prompted a little to reach the diagnosis and investigations. But on the whole, the feedback was pretty encouraging :)

That's about it for now.....signing off peeps!

Ailing

Latest updates

Arrghh.....so many things happened over the past week, but I was so lazy to blog :p

1. Watched 2 movies- Slumdog Millionaire(better be good as it won 8 Academy Awards) and Angels and Demons (which was great)

2. Had my first Mini CEX, which fortunately for me was held by my Internal Med tutor who is one of the nicest Internal Med lecturers you can find. But....he held my Mini CEX in front of all my groupmates. So they were all there to witness my humilitation! :p Just kidding. I was actually grateful they were there to support me through my Mini CEX. :) History taking was fine for me, I need to improve on my physical examination techniques though.

3. Had a scary Case Presentation on Wednesday. The lecturer was harsh to all of us who presented that day, but particularly harsh to the first presenter. He was a bit harsh to me to when I presented, but that's ok. Not so bad. Finally at the end of the CP, he said he was strict on us because he wants us to be perfect.

4. Clerked some patients with sad stories. E.g., one patient who has 7 children, but lives in a welfare home. He claimed that all his illness started ever since he started living there one year ago. Another patient, whose whole life turned upside down ever since his wife died many years ago. He never fully recovered from the loss.

5. The health scare! One patient here in HTJ died of Meningitis last week. Some students who were in contact with the patient, senior batches I think, were given prophylaxis. My housemates said they clerked one meningitis patient on Wednesday, don't know whether it was the same patient. Please let it not be!
And of course, the H1N1 influenza virus has finally reached Malaysia. Oh joy. A student took a flight back to Penang from USA recently. Welcome to Malaysia.
It's only a matter of time before the virus reaches Seremban and we all will be wearing masks in the hospital. *shudders*

Hmmm.....what should I tell you about Internal Medicine?

a) Clerking patients in Port Dickson Hospital (who are mostly cooperative and friendly as they are more relaxed over there) ,
b) case presentations with lecturers (especially one lecturer who is nice, and he teaches us in very detail about CNS examination),
c) Task based learning (TBL) sessions- we learnt that we have to prepare our cases in powerpoint presentation

I despise driving, but I still drove down to Port Dickson from Mon-Wed, and even KL on Saturday (my first time driving down to KL, heh)

And now I've got to prepare for my TBL presentation tomorrow and research for my research project proposal due next week.

And prepare for the Mini-CEX exam next Tuesday.

Oh well.....at least I have 'Grey's Anatomy' to cheer me up. (Please don't die, Izzie! You were a beautiful bride. Alex and the rest of them would be devastated if you do. And Meredith and Derek, it's your turn to get hitched......) The only thing, the season finale is next week....and after that no more Grey's until September. :( Wonder whether leading actress Ellen Pompeo would have had her baby by then. If not, I think it's a good idea to write the pregnancy into the show. Great twist to Meredith and Derek's relationship....Hah! :)

p.s. Happy Mother's Day!!!

I love you, mum!!