of Malaysian rants and electives

Bismillah

Salam wrb, 

Aaah..feels so good..Hisashiburi neeh dear bloggie..(>.<)

Where am I at this moment of life?

I am at my home sweet home Malaysia, finishing my medical electives. 

What is electives some have asked?

It's basically a 2 month period allocated by the medical school for final yr students to pursue their interests in areas of medicine they are passionate about. it can go from doing research, to organising volunteer projects to just purely observing the working environment in hospital.

the last one sounds a bit boring you may say, but that is what I'm doing..what's more not awesome is that I'm doing it in general medicine..initially i opted for A&E which I thought was granted by the hospital only to discover on the 1st day of reporting for my electives its in general medicine ward..*Bam* serves me right for not checking a couple of months before. I could probably hv requested a change but nevertheless I'm sure this is the best for me. 

*Just a tip for future electives under-goers..it's probably best to find a specialty or sub specialty for electives if you're doing in it hospitall since you'll be able to learn more than just superficial and random bits in a wide area like gen. med. Just my thought :)

So anyway, Alhamdulillah, my experience so far at hosp Serdang gen med, is okay, I mean some HOs are approachable but they're very busy during the day making it difficult to shadow them and not to feel like your in the way.  I met a couple CUCMS final yrs who are awesome and very friendly, joined their ward round with their lecturers. Took some history from patients. Erm..but somehow along the way I'm beginning to lose my passion in working. I'm not sure why.  Sometimes I think it's because of the Malaysian heat (lols), which makes me sweaty and exhausted easily. Sometimes I think it's the non-friendly working environment, where the MOs and HOs are not really on a friendly basis.  I mean, i don't see they support each other that much apart from MOs giving a list of HOs task for the day. In UK, u see the F1/F2 and SHO as colleagues, each with their own task, but helping each other out, asking views and discussing about patients and what to do together..apart from the seniors could be found on the ward.  I wonder why it's not like that in Malaysia. but probably its different in different wards and hospitals.

Alhamdulillah, there wasn't any physical bullying as far as my attachment, fewh~ a bit of mental bullying, but I think that it was acceptable since I thought the HO was being a bit silly not to take a full history of asthma and not doing auscultation when it was a respiratory complaint.  and..sometimes I feel demotivated, but I think it's just me, not having a good intention or not being ikhlas untuk bekerja. but I saw this halaqah (J.O. M) at al-Hijrah channel the other day discussing about ilmu..and how ilmu is actually milik Allah..and we can never reach up to Allah's level and how we should always be striving to learn more..and what is good ilmu is how good it can benefit us and mankind.  Wouldn't you agree that medicine is one of the most practical and beneficial ilmu of all.  That's why doctors are the least likely profession to get unemployed.  The ustaz gave an example of Imam Nawawi where through out his *something-teen years of being a scholar, he wrote 24 books and that his living room has no space to sit down for guests and they had to shuffle the books aside to make space for them to sit.  Hearing that just makes me passionate again to practice medicine.  yaAllah please make me a great Muslim doctor, who is good and passionate at her job..inshaAllah..

Anyway, here's some photos of Bangalore Baptist Hospital, India when I did my electives from 1st April 2013 to 26th April 2013...

The main entrance.  Malaysian medics studying in India rushing for their morning ward rounds

the tree of gossip.  Where me & Hani would sit there and drink chai & mango juice at 10.30am (post ward round) and contemplate what time should we go home.

a retro looking ambulance.  Although its a bit out of date but services here are quite good.  They even have palliative care team.

The Pharmacy on the LEFT

View of patients under the gossip tree

My daily treat

That's me working the white coat lolssss!

So at the moment I'm still thinking where to apply for my HOship.  I think I want to apply outside of Lembah Klang since I hope I can come back to KL to settle down one day..but I'm still thinking where outside of KL shall I apply to?  Sabah? Pahang? etc..I really have no idea..

In the meantime.. I need to find a car.. It feels so debilitating not being able to get around in Malaysia..haiyo..and need to familiarise myself with the roads here too since I can't rely on the signboards in Malaysia..Zunno why but so confusing one maaa...

Menteri Pengangkutan..please make the public transport in Malaysia better and more accessible..and the signboard and motorways more straightforward please..this can all be achieved by proper planning..lols, easy for me to say huh? 

btw, kudos to the new komuter coaches..dah mcm London Underground tube uuu dengan aircond yg sejuk (cuma kena improve on the punctuality lols)

- here goes my Malaysia rants Part 1

nad xx