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On the second day, we were attached to the surgery department. It was a Tuesday, thus there was no general operation procedure in the operating theatre. Thus, we are instructed to go the surgical wards. We proceed to the male and female surgical wards to look for Mr. Ashok, the senior consultant for the department. Me and Chee Huat were separated to different wards. We followed the HOs and MOs and observed what they do. At noon, we left for lunch. After lunch, we are back to the wards again and both of us changed our assigned wards. Basically, we observed the condition of the hospital and also the doctors in action.
On the third day, we are attached to the Emergency and Trauma department. Early in the morning, we reported to the head of the department, Dr. Amirudin. We were instructed to stay in the clinical area but not the red zone whereby emergency cases are usually arrived at. This really limited our observation as we were not allowed to look at procedures in red zone area where it was usually busy. However, we also learned a lot from the clinical consultation room where most mild cases or simple cases patients are referred to. We met Dr. John there and attached to him for the day. We enjoyed shadowing him and observed how he treated the patients and also gave advice to them. Dr John is a nice Indian doctor who also has a little sense of humour which made the clinical consultation not as boring. He is also a very nice doctor and of course we like him very much. He is a graduate of Melaka Manipal Medical College. We learned a lot of things from him. He also gave us details regarding the consultations. He explained to us about the situation of the patients too sometimes. Whenever we met with patients who do not speak Malay or English then we were be useful as in we can translate for him and helped in communication. However, we cannot help much if there were patients who only speak iban. At the afternoon that day, we asked permission from the doctors concerned to be attached to the OT. Thus, after lunch, we went into the OT with the other two from other groups. We witnessed a procedure on cutting off the appendix. It took about two and half hours to finish as most of the time was used to look for the appendix. It was really a fulfilling experience although this is not the first time I witnessed an operation. We observed how the doctors sew up the cut so carefully. After this, we went to the next room and observe the ending of a Caesarean Section. By then, the doctor was already sewing up the cut. After that we then called it a day.
On the last day, 6 of us all attached to the same department, which is the Paediatric department. We visited the wards for babies and also small children. We walked around the ward and observed how the specialist inspect on each patients. We observed how the doctors explained to the specialist regarding the situation of the patients. It is quite a good experience too as we got to play with a few children. They are really cute and adorable. We also have the chance to see the children with cancer undergo treatment or perhaps it was a blood extraction. Our attachment ended at about noon time as there were not much thing to learn in the department especially in the ward. We returned our tag to the office and got our testimonial regarding our attachment. We left for home after that.
We learned a lot of things in this attachment. However, still we had some restriction as we are not medical students yet so we cannot do anything in the hospital except to merely observe. However, it was quite a fulfilling experience as in we are further expose to the career as a doctor. We learned of the daily routine of a house officer and also the difficulties in this career. We had gain greatly from the attachment and looking forward for another attachment next time if possible.
Reported by,
Julius Tan Jin Soon :)
On the third day, we are attached to the Emergency and Trauma department. Early in the morning, we reported to the head of the department, Dr. Amirudin. We were instructed to stay in the clinical area but not the red zone whereby emergency cases are usually arrived at. This really limited our observation as we were not allowed to look at procedures in red zone area where it was usually busy. However, we also learned a lot from the clinical consultation room where most mild cases or simple cases patients are referred to. We met Dr. John there and attached to him for the day. We enjoyed shadowing him and observed how he treated the patients and also gave advice to them. Dr John is a nice Indian doctor who also has a little sense of humour which made the clinical consultation not as boring. He is also a very nice doctor and of course we like him very much. He is a graduate of Melaka Manipal Medical College. We learned a lot of things from him. He also gave us details regarding the consultations. He explained to us about the situation of the patients too sometimes. Whenever we met with patients who do not speak Malay or English then we were be useful as in we can translate for him and helped in communication. However, we cannot help much if there were patients who only speak iban. At the afternoon that day, we asked permission from the doctors concerned to be attached to the OT. Thus, after lunch, we went into the OT with the other two from other groups. We witnessed a procedure on cutting off the appendix. It took about two and half hours to finish as most of the time was used to look for the appendix. It was really a fulfilling experience although this is not the first time I witnessed an operation. We observed how the doctors sew up the cut so carefully. After this, we went to the next room and observe the ending of a Caesarean Section. By then, the doctor was already sewing up the cut. After that we then called it a day.
On the last day, 6 of us all attached to the same department, which is the Paediatric department. We visited the wards for babies and also small children. We walked around the ward and observed how the specialist inspect on each patients. We observed how the doctors explained to the specialist regarding the situation of the patients. It is quite a good experience too as we got to play with a few children. They are really cute and adorable. We also have the chance to see the children with cancer undergo treatment or perhaps it was a blood extraction. Our attachment ended at about noon time as there were not much thing to learn in the department especially in the ward. We returned our tag to the office and got our testimonial regarding our attachment. We left for home after that.
We learned a lot of things in this attachment. However, still we had some restriction as we are not medical students yet so we cannot do anything in the hospital except to merely observe. However, it was quite a fulfilling experience as in we are further expose to the career as a doctor. We learned of the daily routine of a house officer and also the difficulties in this career. We had gain greatly from the attachment and looking forward for another attachment next time if possible.
Reported by,
Julius Tan Jin Soon :)
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