Medical School Recap: Pre-Clinical Year

Tribute to my Pre-Clinical Year, where life in medical school begins

The memories from UKM KL Campus, Chow Kit :)

Pots of plant in Do Re Mi Fa...

Where university life begins!

Year 1 (2008-2009)

PPD Camp 1 in Kem BTN, Ulu Kenas

First PBL group (PBL 3) with Prof Leelavathy and Dr Heikal

Juniors' Welcoming Night

Organizing an event for ourselves, from the juniors for the juniors and seniors

2nd Semester, a brand new group

PBL 13, the forever famous "Limau RM4 group"

Picture taken after our community visit in Spastic Centre

The marketing team working for Pesta AngPau UKMKL + taking pictures because of the rain!

An evening walk in Tasik Titiwangsa and a ride on "Eye on Malaysia" to watch sunset

Post-conference Project AMSA in Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) and clinical booth set up in Penampang

Medic Night 2009

1st year HM Project, Program Bakti Siswa

This is my family over the weekend, our mak angkat, the super good cook and kuih maker :)

Year 1 batch picture

Year 2 (2009-2010)

Juniors' Welcoming Night 2009

This is the Ex-KMJ students group picture, seniors + juniors!

Year 2 Semester 1, PBL 16

Picture taken during Clinical Skill Learning (CSL) class in HUKM

Did our PBL once in the lab & took lots of picture after that

The PBL 16 outing in Sunway Pyramid, went ice skating for the first time :) :)

Celebrating Khairul's birthday after the PBL session

Year 2, Semester 2 - nearing the end of pre-clinical year

PBL 19 :)

Our last CSL class with Dr. Hazli, then we went to eat together in Paparich

Christian Fellowship Camp in Outdoor Broga Adventure Camp (OUTBAC)

Taken at the peak of Broga Hill, waiting for the sunrise

Another HM project

Went jungle trekking and canopy walking in FRIM

The weird Year 2 batch picture, which they separated us by gender 

:)

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Finally, a dream comes true...

Heya, the MIA version of me is finally BACK :)

On 2nd May 2013,

As the Dean of my faculty read through the name list of the passing candidates of the Professional Exam, when he finally mentioned

"A 121878 Leong Qi Wen"

marks the end of my life as medical student and finally promoted to a Medical Doctor (UKM) degree holder

Nothing can describe how I feel after all the efforts for 5 YEARS! 

Quickly, I texted my brother regarding the good news even though the list is still ongoing being announced, one by one my friends passed, as well

Then, I called my Mom and Dad, just couldn't wait anymore to hold back the news

The nervous and frightening auditorium atmosphere immediately filled with happiness and laughters of a bunch of newborn doctors

:)

Finally, a dream comes true

Couldn't fit all my books in one shot

This is only half of the books I have

My Exam Story (can be boring or exciting, quite long)

Our Professional Exam was conducted for 2 weeks

In the 1st week, we had unmanned OSCE on the first day (20 stations, 5 minutes per station. There is picture or question or x-ray films or bottle/vials of medication in any of the station)

Followed by 4 days of theory paper examination for both surgical and medical papers.

In surgical paper, there are questions on Surgery, Orthopaedics, Obs & Gynae with ENT, Ophthalmology and Anaesthesiology in multiple choice questions paper

For medical paper, there are questions on Internal Medicine, Paediatrics, Psychiatry with additional questions of Emergency Medicine, Community Health and Forensic

Well, nothing more scary than the exam in the 2nd week

I was scheduled to take my Long Case and Manned OSCE on Tuesday

For long case, I have to clerk a patient, do every necessary physical examination for 45 minutes.

Followed by 15 minutes of preparation.

The next 30 minutes, we will have case presentation and discussion with 2 specialists as my examiners

I'm glad that after from the "cabut undi", I got a surgical case

I'm so afraid of Paediatrics and O&G case, actually

After the morning scary long case, the scariness continues in the afternoon

Everyone has to go through 4 stations of 10 minutes

Each station, either there will be a patient or mannequin, any question is possible

We will have to perform anything required in the questions, most of the time, we have to perform physical examination in front of the examiner

I guess, again I'm quite lucky after another round of "cabut undi", I got myself the Yellow card. 

The only obvious thing that differs from the color of the card is only 1 station:

Yellow - ENT/Ophthal station

Pink - Paediatrics station

Blue - Psychiatry station

My Yellow Card Station Circuit

Station 1 - Orthopaedics (Did a hand examination)

Station 2 - Obstetrics (Did a routine obs examination - abdominal palpation)

Station 3 - ENT (Otoscopy, hearing tests -Rinne & Weber)

Station 4 - Medical (Did a examination of abdominal system)

:)

Graduated :)

Many thanks to:

Almighty God

My parents, bro and family 

All the professors and doctors, nurses, kakak PK!

Patients that had taught me everything

All my friends who have sail through the sea and storm with me

Thank you to MD (UKM) class of 2013

:)

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Still surviving

So, when was the last time I made a new post?

Oh yeah, last year

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Anyway, I'm still alive and surviving..

Tomorrow is going to be my last day in medical school

(HOPEFULLY!!)

Followed by the longest study week that I ever had - 3 WEEKS!

Then, Professional Exams for 2 weeks :)

Well, here's a shot of me to prove that I'm still surviving, for those who have not see me for like 'N' years ago. But aren't very sure whether I'll still look like this after my 3-week study week & exams

Never too late to say Happy 2013

:P

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CAFFEine

I should be excited to blog about this because I self claimed myself as coffee freak. I can even doze off halfway drinking coffee. Ever since my final year life being really jealous of the free time I had, I tend to rather rest and do nothing than blogging. Therefore, I'm a bit out of passionate fuel in putting everything into words for my post. Let the picture tells you about this place, ok?

CAFFEine

My cousin knew this place in Setia Walk Puchong after she attended an event here

It looks pretty cool for me, even though we were the only customers there at the moment

It was Friday night, most of the people enjoying alcohol downstairs

Le cousin and her bf deciding what to drink and to eat or not

Choices of coffee and tea :)

I wish I can try each of the coffee 

They also have cakes, sandwiches, pies and spaghetti

I had late lunch, by that time I am already hungry

The chicken spaghetti bolognese was all right for me

Not the best that I've ever tasted

The sauce isn't very thick, but I'm glad it is not very sour

The portion was just right for me, but I would be insufficient for guys and big eaters

RM 12.50

My coffee of the night - Ice Blended Irish Cream

The best part is the cream (haha!)

The coffee taste not strong at all, it is a bit bland for me though it is creamy

I guess this was my 2nd time ordering Irish Cream, my first cup was in Garden Lifestyle Cafe, Mid Valley and better

Andrew's mocha

Tyng's caramel macchiato

Chin Han's electro choc

They were switching cups trying each other's coffee while I was wobbling my spaghetti with hunger. Man, I was totally ignored or I was totally ignoring them LOL

That is why I have no comment on their cup of java >.<

So lousy, how to blog...

Setia Walk Puchong night view

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Last minute study

This week already the last week of my Paediatrics posting

The next time I see Paeds again will be professional exams

Frankly, I'm not ready

I didn't check how much I have cover for Paeds until I took out the guidebook today

Now only I terkejar-kejar want to study Paeds before going to O&G posting next week

In the mess, still got mirror on top of my books!

='(

And I think I have forgotten stuffs in Surgery posting

Since I'm staying in the double room alone, I own 2 tables at the moment

This picture is just random, showing what I did to the other table

Hehe

=)

Back to my books now, just a brief update

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Nike Run 2012: We Run KL

My 5th run ever since 2011

I guess I'm pretty lucky during the registration. I had multiple failed attempts as well while trying to break into the registration using my uni library's computer and siput internet connection.

Though I was able to register, at the same time, I'm quite disappointed with the service and management by Nike. Most of my friends couldn't join the run, which was pretty disappointing. Besides, I was charged twice due to some problems. However, I'm glad I got my refund even though their reply was really late.

To those that starts to boycott the run, I agree that the whole management thing sucks.

Well, since I had register, here's the post about Nike Run 2012: We Run KL

This is my first 10km run!

Getting ready for the race!

Super huge goodie bag

But all the stuffs in this bag tiny itsy bitsy one

It's just the bag that is super dinosaur!

Thanks to Kee Tat for collecting the race pack for me

Thanks to Ie Lane and Siew Im for transferring this dinosaur to my room door!

I was in Teluk Intan during the race pack collection and I reached KL one day before the run

 The goodies inside the dinosaur

For all this and the race t-shirt, it is RM35

I registered under buddy run, RM70 per pair with Ie Lane

One sentence that scare me when I first read it in the pamphlet:

"Race cut-off is 2 hours after flag off (5.30pm). Remaining runners on the route are required to board the sweeper bus due to the requirements by the authorities to expedite the road opening to traffic"

Since I got no training ever since Standard Chartered, it is 4 months if you're curious

So I was like 

"Shit, it is so embarrassing if I was to pick up by the sweeper bus"

Then, I start over-thinking whether will I reach in 2 hours by walking

=.=

 This is the D-Tag (Green tag)

I'm very jakun when I first saw this, never use before

This tag will records the time I cross the start line, the finish line and several split times in between

It is to record how lambat I was =.=

The yellow tag is to wear it on the wrist for finisher t-shirt exchange after we cross the finish line

 A blur picture to show my D-Tag!

 Went there with 4 of my coursemates

Left to right: Me, Ie Lane, Hau Wei, Tze Hwei & Kee Tat

All super hebat runners, I feel so tiny and rookie here

 The starting line

We went further to the front after I took this picture

All this while I only join 5km run or people used to call it as Fun Run

So I won't bother to go to the front since our time will be not be recorded

Yesterday was my first time to walk all the way to the front of the crowd with my friends, they are so semangat. Good good ;)

 Since we gathered at the starting line 30 minutes before the gun, group photo!

Love this picture :)

JJ and Ean trying their best to kill our waiting time at the starting line to cheer everyone up

The gun went off at 5.35pm

This is the route to go through by legs, not wheels

Gosh!

I reached the finish line after 1 hour 33 minutes

Due to the super big crowd squeezed in a small area, the queue for mineral water, 100plus & finisher t-shirt was so long that it went all over to the finish line

The moment I was able to squeeze myself to step on the finish line to let my D-Tag time me, it was already 1 hour 35 minutes

meh =.=

 Picture with our finisher t-shirt :)

I had difficulty looking for my friends after the finisher t-shirt collection

The fields are muddy that my shoes stucked so deep in

My shoes! My socks! Ugh...

With all the people wearing the same shirt and all thanks to my poor night vision, it took me really long to find them

The line there was really terrible, I couldn't call anybody

Luckily, text was able to be delivered 

Finisher t-shirt

Tyng laughed at this because it is GREEN

Because I'm a so-called "colourist", I don't like green

But this green is okay, not dark green please...

Phew, finally I made it through my first 10km run under 2 hours with no training at all for 4 months

My feeling post-run:

10km is sooooo different from 5km, way different!

I had abdominal pain after I pass the 2km mark, I walked for a certain distance before I start to jog slowly again

I can feel my leg muscle screaming in pain at 9km, luckily only 1 km left. It is so weird that it was less pain when I jog compared to walking

I aim for a 10 minutes per km pace to make sure I reach before the sweeper bus come take me away, so that I can reach in 100 minutes (1 hour 40 minutes)

I did really push myself in certain part of the route even though there are quite a number of uphill routes, thank God I reached safely with a time that I'm satisfied :)

Problems:

All 4 water stations (every 2 km) and the route around that area totally flooded by paper cups and the road is so wet

A lot of runners tend to just throw the cup in every direction, I can feel water and 100plus splash every time I passed the water station

There are people complaining that couples that hold hands and took pictures along the race slow down the other runners

There are quite a number of people that stop unexpectedly in the middle of the road to tie their shoelace. I almost bump into one that I have to pull my emergency break. I hope they understand the etiquette of the a race

The queue delay my finishing time!

Mission to upgrade from 5km to 10km in within 1 year accomplished :)

*Some pictures are courtesy of Hau Wei & Nike Running Malaysia FB

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