ID 1st week
As the first batch of m5s going through the ID posting, I’ll give you a brief introduction on it.
Both Mondays of the posting are reserved for lectures at the Centre, while the remaining days are spent posted to one or two hospitals, including TeeTee itself, AndYouAche and AsGeeAche. (Like a fellow blogger, I’m starting to get kiasu; my blog pops up too frequently on Google for my comfort.) I’m at the Centre this week, so we’re expected to attend ward rounds every day, where we each get a patient to follow-up on and examine. Our group has two tutors, who’ve been dilligent at giving us tutorials. Each student has an attendance sheet for ward rounds and tutorials that must be signed by the tutor at every session. And uhm…attendance counts for 40% of the posting grade. Good. I just need to get 25% for the MCQs/OSCEs to pass.
The highlight of this posting really lunch, because there is so much good food in the vicinity of the Centre. Wah Kee Prawn Mee (listen to 93.8FM at 12.15pm today!), bak kut teh, and an indulgent lunch at Matsuo Sushi were the highlights of the week. No photos since I’ve taken them the previous times. (hurray for shan, if you’re actually reading this!)
We’ve been doing ward rounds where every patient has retroviral disease and an impressive selection of various opportunistic infections over multiple admissions. I’m starting to see it as
another chronic disease that needs chronic treatment to prevent complications. We talked to our tutor, who said that if diagnosed early and with complete compliance to antiretroviral drugs, patients can actually lead a relatively normal life, of reasonable life expectancy. Of course, that’s a best case scenario.
Our main tutor’s a very nice doctor who gave us tutorials (in the afternoon, unfortunately) every day. Of course, skiving off after lunch was usually the main thought in our heads every morning because there’s nothing to do in the wards and clinics are dead boring, but as long as there’s someone willing to teach and good at teaching, it’s an opportunity not to be lost. Milk him! The clinical teaching the past few years has been of erratic standards.
I don’t think it’ll be over till M5 is over.
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