First Week of Clinical Posting

As the title suggests, yeah it has been two weeks since I've officially become a clinical student!(yeah I passed my second year finals! T.T)  On the first week we had a crazy marathon run of bio-imaging lectures which I've totally isolated(mentally) myself from. Gosh it was so disastrous that I'm still sadly not competent enough to differentiate a stomach from a spleen on an abdomen CT. Hopefully I won't bring harm to anyone in the future for failing to recognise a pneumothorax T.T.  We then had briefings on the clinical years, from both the admin people(which is known as melodious although the name contradicts ridiculously!) and the department you're posted to , which I thought was not properly organised. Kinda disappointed? Personally I was so clueless regarding my responsibilities. Am I officially part of the medical team now? Will I be given actual responsibilities in the ward? Oh by the way my first clinical posting is in 'medicine'! Despite all the sayings that medicine would be the toughest, and challenging, and bla bla, I'm personally rather happy with this arrangement. There're good sides for it too, I'll be laying good foundation for future postings, hopefully? Good news, my small little group has been assigned to Dr L, which we're all quite happy with due to the fact that he is apparently a very nice doctor. Bad news? He's currently on a leave, hallelujah! T.T 

To be precise we are 3-day-old clinical students now aha.(err well Monday was Hari Raya Friday was Hari Merdeka) I was based in the cardiology ward for the first week. Personally, I've clerked a few cases, presented a case to a specialist, attached to the cardio clinic for an hour and had seen how the British accented Dr discharged all the patients that he was seeing when poh and I was there lol, and then continue clerking cases......

What I've experienced weren't what I've actually expected or anticipated. It's as if we were thrown into a big sea(the wards in this case), and were left there cluelessly wandering around. Apart from having to clerk cases and occasionally present them to the docs, we do not have actual clinical responsibilities in the ward. Ward rounds are not even necessary! Learning is pretty much self-directed. If one is motivated enough, he/she clerks and learns. If not, you're seriously free to mess around in your room without having to do anything for the whole day.  

But hey, it's been just three days. Thing will hopefully get better. Well I've enjoyed cardiology. Looking forward to elicits more signs in the neurology ward!

ps: yeah this is a new blog haha. Hoping to craft down the memories and experiences that I'll soon make during clinical years here.