6th Congress of Asian Medical Education

Dear all,

IMU will sponsor 10 students to attend the 6th Congress of Asian Medical Education Association 2011. It's a great learning opportunity and will be good for your CVs. First come first serve!
Highlights

Topics and workshops relevant to undergraduate and post graduate education.
Pre-congress workshops
Keynote address by Ron Harden, United Kingdom
Plenary seminar by prominent medical educationists
Symposia
Interactive forum
Medical Education clinic
Free papers and poster presentations
IMU-Ron Harden Innovation in medical education presentations
Awards

IMU-Ron Harden Innovation in Medical Education (IMU-RHIME)
Best Oral Presentations
Best Poster Presentations

Loads of love and cheers,
Zia

C1/11: Malay Language Classes for International Students

During the next two weeks, there will be Malay Language classes for the international students. This is to help them cope with the rigors of clerking patients in Malay. This classes are a first in Clinical School and the Student Council hope that you guys can make it.If the reception isn't good, this initiative will no longer be continued in the future. The classes will start on the 15th of March (Tuesday) from 8-9pm. Location is outside the student lounge. There are plans on holding it on Thursday as well. Please pass the word around to our international friends, just in case they don't see this post.

Thank you.
William=)

Kampung Angkat Project

Greetings,

A minimum of one community visit is required throughout your two years in Seremban clinical school. There will be three kampung angkat visits this year and 30 students will be recruited for each visit. The next project is mid-April, but the date will be confirmed later. Once the details are finalised, we will start recruiting students whereby you can submit your name to your respective posting leader. We will be visiting a palm tree estate, Kampung Tekir in Labu, N Sembilan which is 20 minutes drive away. Students will have to car pool & the driver can claim mileage for the trip.

Also, please note that 20-30 students can join the jungle-trekking & 2-day stay in Kampung Tekir somewhere in August. Accomodation & food will be provided. More details will be given in due time. It would be a great opportunity for students to experience living the "kampung" life.

Thank you & enjoy clinical school life! Remember to be polite, punctual & professional at all times =)

Regards,
Canace Teoh

Briefing about Kampung Angkat + etc.

1) Canace, the SRC president will be using the empty slot at 4pm tomorrow(3/3) to give us a talk about the kampung angkat project.

2) Please submit your appeal letter to either me or Li Teng for the swap latest by 12pm tomorrow.

3) Will try my best to upload the lecture on "Medical Ethics & Professionalism" up to the blog. Not really sure bout the process so it'll take some time till i manage to get it done. In the meanwhile, one method to get the slides is to copy the files directly from the computer at the JBLT.

C111: Seremban Swapping for Posting.

Dear batchmates,

According to AAD, those who are intending to swap their posting seats must provide AAD with an appeal letter with both your names, id number, groupings as well as both your signature. Please pass the appeal letters either to me or li teng latest by Wednesday(2/3) 4pm. This website can be used as a guide: http://www.letterwritingguide.com/appeal.htm

With regards to the swapping, we are allowed to exchange with the members of the opposite genders so its all green for that issue.

Tomorrow(1/3), there will be an order form for the name tags to be passed around. Please write whatever name you would like for it to be printed on the tag. As a reminder, this will be the tag you'll be using throughout clinical years so please put in to due consideration with regards to the name. We'll be collecting rm5 from each person for the tag and to make it easier, we'll be making it compulsory to get. So ya, if got any issues with it...you guys can approach me about it and etc. Payment of money can be settled with Elly. If by any chance we get the tags for less than rm5, we are planning using the remainder for either a batch based activity or maybe just buying extra food for us(pizza anyone?) for the orientation night.

Cheers,
William

Ps: I sincerely apologize for flooding the blog with one big one. :P

clinical seremban-books for sale

Hey dears,

This list was sent to me by a senior and as a Semester 6 student my batchmates and I had found it very useful. It is basically up to you to choose which books you want to buy - you can still ask other seniors (and if you have also been given a list it would be great if you forwarded it to me so I can put it up)! :)

1. Family Medicine

1. Murtagh's General Practice (huge textbook, a lot of people use it, still used by GPs in clinics)
2. Rakel's Essential Family Medicine (some seniors just photocopied sections which were important)

! Very importantly for Family Medicine, you need to read the Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) for Malaysia (available online on the Academy of Medicine website) Actually this is applicable to all postings, but especially true for FM. You will be questioned on the guidelines often.

2. Surgery

1. Essential Surgery by Burkitt et al (huge textbook, colourful diagrams, used widely the world over, even some established surgeons are still using it and it is highly recommended)
2. Intro to Signs & Symptoms of Surgical Diseases by Browse et al (something like Macleod's/Talley's but specifically for Surgery, also can be used for internal medicine/family medicine, also highly recommended)
3. Manipal Textbook of Surgery (a lot of seniors use it - apparently it's very good)
4. Bailey & Love's Textbook to Surgery (recommended by some lecturers, but quite huge, you can borrow from the library)

3. Internal Medicine

1. Kumar & Clark's OR Davidson's (EITHER ONE WILL DO! BUT MUST HAVE ONE!)
2. OHCM 7/8th Edition (to be carried to wards for quick reference, very useful)
3. Express Revision for Short OSCEs by Chew Nee Kong, some Dr from UM (awesome revision book for practising OSCEs!)
4. Again, read CPGs!

According to seniors there is no rush buying books because Phase 2 is totally different! Just soak in the atmosphere and settle down properly first.

Loads of love and cheers,
Zia

Seremban!

Clinical school Seremban will be starting on the 28th February 2011 for batch C1/11. Dress code is formal, as per phase 1 IMU Bukit Jalil. However, you'll be needing short-sleeved labcoats, which is available from Henry (Emo bookstore in IMU Bukit Jalil) or Kamal bookstore (opposite HKL). In Kamal the price of the labcoat is RM 45 (Kamal bookstore's labcoat is better as the material is thinner and there are more pockets and a place to hold the tendon hammer). It is best to buy between 2-3 lab coats per person. Registration is on 28th February starts at 9am. The whole week from 28th February to 4th March will be orientation week, which will be full of important briefings about clinical school.

There will be a "White Coat Ceremony" which is the highlight of the week to mark the transition from medical students to student doctors and it is very IMPORTANT. You need to have your labcoats ready by then. I will keep you further notified about this.

IMU Clinical school has limited parking spots available therefore it is advisable to car pool with your friends/housemates. Orientation night is on the following week, Monday (07/03/2011). Please do not skip lectures/activities without any valid reasons & do abide by the dressing code and professional conduct in clinical school. If there are any questions, do email me: poenas.do@gmail.com.

Thank you.

Warmest regards,
Zia Shah
SRC IMU Clinical school