Last Friday, aku berbesar hati memenuhi permintaan Pink yg teringin utk bergambar di hadapan bathing boxes yg berwarna-warni kat Brighton Beach nih...
aku curik2 tgkp gamba bapak n anak bermain pasir ini...sweet kan?
Pink ajak aku tngkp gamba kat rumah buruk ini..aku mule2 cam "ape brg?bukan ke nk tangkap gamba rumah2 kecik tuh..nih ape kelas? rumah besar dan buruk!"
Baiklah, inilah antara gambar2 kitorg hari tuh...
korang suke yg mane?
Hari nih, Board Examiners bermesyuarat dan memutuskan siapakah 4th yr meddies yg kene amek supp (supplementary exam)...semase aku berjalan2 di Brighton Beach nih terlupe laa sekejap pasal result nih..bile dh puas tgkp gamba br laa aku notice missed calls & text msgs from Shaq n Asma' ckp pasal supp...aku pon mule laa cuak..tp still aku nk check email aku sendirik bile blk rumah kang...I can't have someone else reading my emails utk tgk aku kene supp ke x... It turns out aku x kene supp...even so, aku still x laa tenang sgt pasal result nih..sbb system kat monash nih, u will be required to sit for supps if your marks are within borderline range because they don't know if they should pass or fail u...but, if your marks are lower than the borderline range, u will fail the exam and no longer required to sit for further assessment...hence, harus repeat the semester...although nih kire rare cases aa...tp possible utk berlaku...ape tah lg utk med student pemalas cam aku nih.. ape2 pon, there's nothing I can do apart from berdoa je laa...tunggu je laa result kuar 13th july! sape2 yg bace entry nih..please pray for me!
We (pink & me) were excited about having a night photography but were disappointed looking at the products..Shaq treated us both to Melbourne Observation Deck (Rialto Towers) where we can enjoy a 360 degrees view of Melbourne City..it was very windy making it even more difficult to shoot..the cold air doesn't help with our motivation either...
Here are some of the photos:
If you've been to Melbourne, U can try identifying some of the landmarks..
Asma' n me were left by ourselves at home as the others went for a holiday in Tassie.. We decided to go for a day trip to Mornington Peninsula last Tuesday.. My classmate from KMB, Pink is here in Melbourne so we invited her & Sarah to join us..
We first went to Point Nepean which is at the very tip of the Peninsula...
Yes, we took the tractor, or otherwise we had to walk to get to Point Nepean...
This is Fort Nepean which is the remnants of Victoria's coastal defence in World War II
Before we went home, we stopped at Rye and took a walk along the jetty..
Some interesting poses I captured that night... I didn't seek consent from these 2 individuals to upload their photos here..but U guys don't know them, so I guess that's fine!
They still managed to have serious conversation about OSCE here...
As usual group photo..
I seriously can't bowl!!
Before we went bowling, Asma' cooked Nasi Tomato and we invited Sarah & Lare for a dinner + gossiping session...
Happy birthday to you!! I tried calling U at 3 different numbers but I guess U no longer used those..maybe mase ko kasik ur new number I didn't save it and thought that I might just copy from ym archive later but didn't get round to doing it...anyway, have a great day...(err...almost over dh pon)... It has been so long since the last time we met..(yup..2 yrs ago)..nih je gamba kite yg aku ade.. All the best for ur future n the hereafter...Thanks for the friendship!
1. Bekas kekasih saya adalah : Kekasih?kekasih maknenye kene reciprocal laa kan..err...no such things...
2. Saya sedang mendengar : bunyi dryer yg berusaha keras mengeringkan baju2 yg br sahaja dibasuh setelah exam tamat...senanye x abes lg..ade at least 2 loads lg kot..
3. Mungkin saya patut : smayang hajat x berhenti mendoakan saya pass exam tanpa perlu buat supp...
4. Saya suka : blk msia...
5. Sahabat-sahabat baik saya : ramai...susah aa nk listkan..n they are all over the world..mostly STFians aa..ade gak UTPian cam Ijah or Monash buddies n KMBians..I do spend lots of my time keeping in touch with them...
6. Saya tak paham : imaging...x kire aa X-ray ke, Echo ke, CT or MRI
7. Saya kehilangan : byk gile...mobile phones, spectacles, purse, pen drive, buku Introduction to Clinical Examination
8. Ramai yang berkata saya... : clumsy
9. Makna nama saya : brilliant, berseri-seri, bersinar...
10. Cinta itu adalah : (I wish I know)
11. Di suatu tempat, seseorang sedang : mungkin membace jawapan written OSCE saya sambil berkate ape laa bangang sgt budak nih...
12. Saya akan cuba : lipat baju2 yg sudah dibasuh itu by tonight!
13. Ayat SELAMANYA membawa maksud : (saya setuju dgn hiswani, selamanya tuh perkataan bukan ayat...ayat mesti ade subjek dan prediket)
14. Telefon bimbit saya : slalu jatuh, tp x rosak2 pon...tough btol!
15. Bila saya terjaga dari tidur : sy tdo blk
16. Saya paling meluat apabila : dgr org ckp ana anta...(opps..xde laa paling..tp tuh laa sy terpk skang)
17. Pesta / parti adalah : best kalo dihadiri oleh sume rakan2 rapat sy...maksudnye bukan laa party cam mat saleh buat tuh...
18. Haiwan yang paling comel yang saya pernah temui ialah : penguin
19. Peringkat umur yang paling menyeronokkan bagi saya ialah : can't decide!!time stf kot...
20. Hari ini : sy kene gastro..
21. Malam ini saya akan : lipat baju!(kan dh ckp td)
22. Esok pula saya akan : kemas bilik plak..n basuh baju lg!
23. Saya betul2 inginkan : put away my biggest burden!
24. Ketika anda lihat wajah anda di hadapan cermin pagi ini : pukul 130pm kire pagi ke?
25. Pusat membeli-belah atau arked permainan : shopping mall!!
26. Makanan Barat atau Jepun : Jepang
27. Bilik yang terang atau gelap : depends aa nk wat pe..
28. Makanan segera adalah : unhealthy but who cares?
29. Ayat terakhir yang anda katakan pada seseorang?! De'a, ade hook extra x?
30. Siapa yang anda nak Tag?! sume yg ade kat friends' blogs tepi nih
For those who doesn't know what OSCE is..it's an acronym for Objective Structured Clinical Examination..which is a method of medical student assessment..different med schools have different ways of running their own OSCEs...we have 12 active stations..in these stations, we had to perform a task which might involve us having to examine a patient, explain our diagnosis, investigation findings or management, take a history, or counselling the patient..apart from role-playing we also have to describe a photograph, videos or just whatever it is they could come up with..each stations last for 6 minutes and we have 1 minute reading time before we enter the door to each of the stations..this time, we were also given the information for our next 3 stations that we can work on during our rest station..in total we have 12 active stations and 4 rest stations...6 of the stations are for paeds and 6 for O&G..
I was among the 17 students from metro sites who had to sit our OSCEs at Traralgon (a rural hospital)...most of us were volunteers and the rest like myself were picked by the uni people to sit our exam there as there weren't enough enough examiners to accommodate us all here..I'm not sure if I should consider myself lucky or otherwise...the theory is, rural doctors are nice so they might be more lenient with marks-hence why some of us did volunteer to go there..Traralgon is 2 hrs away from Monash Clayton..thank God they also arranged a bus for us to go there!
I warn you this entry is gonna be lengthy and boring!as I'm gonna be talking about all of the stations...
Each station, the assessor will have to mark us according to the listed criteria and also provide a global score..a global score will be marked as clear fail, borderline and clear pass..
Station 1-6 are all paeds stations which I did badly..I doubt if I passed any of these...
Station 1 In this station we had to explain investigation findings of a child who presented with pallor and tiredness. FBE and ferritin revealed that she has iron deficiency anaemia. After explaining the blood tests, we also had to explain our management. We had one iron-deficiency anaemia when we were in 2nd year and I didn't do well then either..and now they're giving us a similar station?only this one is a child who doesn't eat meat and the one back then was a mother who is breastfeeding and sufferring from post natal depression(PND)...(I failed to pick that up...anyway, we were only 2nd yr students back then, how do we know there's such a thing as PND??and where they can get support from?) This time, I was too nervous as this was my first station, I couldn't remember anything about the dose of iron that we should give and how to follow-up the patient..only when I have a chat with De'a at home I recalled answering a question in a book about the dosage and how much it is... please doctor give me a clear pass anyway....
Station 2 We had to take a history from a mother who came in with her 10 week-old daughter who hasn't been putting on weight..her history doesn't reveal any obvious symptoms that I can put down to any particular causes...we then had to describe the baby's chest X-ray and propose our management..she had heart failure secondary to VSD...I only mention diuretics..I know there's another drug, it wasn't enalapril...when I'm on the way home, then only I recall it is captopril...
Station 3 This is a written station. We had to watch a video of a child who was born at 25weeks' gestation weighing only 697g..He is now 18 months corrected-age..our task is to comment on the child's fine and gross motor skills according to Denver Chart...I thought it wasn't supposed to be that difficult but it turned out 6 mins was too short to look at the video, Denver Chart and to write...especially for someone like me who hardly ever look at Denver Chart before this..when the bell rung and I was about to put my answer sheet on the box then only I realised, there were 2 other questions at the next page...without thinking I just wrote 3 month old for both fine and gross motor skills...that was definitely wrong!I think he is only around 1 month old according to Denver...
Anyway, can you believe a baby born weighing only 697g? I've seen a baby who was born at 26 weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit...she looked very fragile...I googled 26week baby and this is how they look like...imagine performing surgery on them...
Station 4 In this station we had to describe otoscope image of a child's ear who came in because of regression in his speech development...after that we had to explain the audiology results and propose management..it was very stupid of me not to know how does a left or right ear should look like when viewing with otoscope..from the audiology results, I know that it wasn't sensorineural loss but at that time, I can't recall what is the other form of deafness...if only I wasn't too nervous I should be able to tell them that it was conductive deafness...there are clues from the audiology results anyway..instead, I just kept quiet until the examiner gave me the diagnosis of bilateral conductive deafness and asked me to explain that to the mother..I bluffed all my way through the last part of the station, saying that the deafness was because of 'glue ear'..and I told her that her soon should have tympanostomy done...she asked if antibiotics would be useful and I simply said that it won't..honestly I don't know if it's gonna work or not but I just just tried to look confident and pray that I gave the right answer! When the bell rung and I have to leave the room, I catch a glimpse of the assessment sheet and I can see that the examiner marked the global score as borderline...strangely enough I'm so happy to be awarded borderline as I expected her to mark me as clear fail!I guess I was right about the treatment...
Another stupid thing that I did was I said to the mother, "U have bilateral conductive deafness..."
Station 5 In this station, we had to explain our diagnosis to a mother of child who presented with polydipsia, polyuria, nocturia and lethargy...the blood test showed that he had high glucose and ketones...apart from explaining what Type I diabetes is we also have to explain our management for now up until the next 10 days..as usual, I stumbled all the way! I just hate hormones...I can assure you, I won't become an endocrinologist..
Station 6 This is another written station. We had to watch a video of a 2 year-old girl who came in because of coughing on a background of viral illness a few days ago...We had to write down what are the findings that we can tell from looking at her especially her chest... Again,borderline, clear fail, clear pass??no idea!
I had rest station after this and I accidentally take the whole answers sheets that was for other students to fill up when they reached that station. Thank God I realised that soon enough or I might jeopardise other people's OSCE..I remember in our second year OSCE where we had to teach the patient how to use oral contraceptive pills and I actually took the pills with me to the next station that the examiner had to come looking for the pills from me... there's always something funny happens to me in OSCEs...
The rest 6 stations are all O&G stations which I thought weren't as bad as the paeds ones..there was one station in which I ran out of questions to ask the patients..my task was to take a detailed and thorough history from a couple who came in because of infertility..they have been trying to get pregnant for the past 3 yrs...I don't know how much detail I should get into their sexual history(should I ask them how frequent they had sex??what position??-of course I didn't dare to ask such things)...it was frustrating that every questions I asked, the answers were all negatives...I focused most of my time taking history from the wife but I don't know what else to ask the husband that I asked him if he ever contracted mumps which he said yes.(how common it is that mumps was the culprit??ahahhaha..very rare I think)..I sat there in the room not knowing what else to ask until just before the bell rung that I asked the husband if he ever fathered another child!That was the most important question that everyone would ask in the beginning...I also didn't ask about the alcohol, smoking, drug and occupational history which would be relevant! There was also another station in which the pregnant lady was diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus..I just talked continuously but I have no idea if what I said was right..I told U I hate hormones and how come there were 2 types of diabetes examined in one OSCE!!!
We just had our exam this afternoon.. As usual, I have no idea where I stand...and I'm feeling a bit depressed at the moment..it's gonna take sometime before I can get over it...if only I can treat exam like guys whom I had crush on, one gone..focus on a new one....or focus on a few simultaneously... I think I have at least 5 questions which I don't have time to even look at the questions, I simply chose C as the answer...when I look back at the question booklet, those are EMQs (extended-matching questions) where the options could be from A-J or up to O...the odds that C is the answer is very slim... I should stop babbling about something that's over...it's not in my hands anymore...I can only pray to Allah that somehow miracle will happen again like they always do..."O Allah, let me pass this exam"..no2.."O Allah, make Munirah Binti Zakaria pass the exam with high distinction"...(sounds impossible but we should always pray for the best)...I intentionally put my name there so whenever anyone reads this they will indirectly pray for me too..heheh
Anyway, we went to Sofia for dinner...it was a post-exam dinner + Topek + Aimi + De'a + Cai's birthday celebration...it's Topek's birthday today...n the others were weeks ago..we haven't had time to celebrate as we were all busy with placement, exam preparation etc..
We didn't know that the portion would be that big..each of us ordered one dish for ourselves..Topek also ordered 3 pastas for everyone...(yup, the birthday boy himself)..the oval plate on my left is the pasta..& on my right is my Pollo Valentino...there were 4 pizzas..2 of which we decided to pack straightaway as takeaways...it was just impossible for all 17 of us to finish up everything..there weren't enough space to put everything on the table anyway...
I just feel the need to upload this photo..Duen was laughing his head off..I don't know why but his laugh was pure that he himself couldn't contain..
Owh..this is Topek..err..I used to have a massive crush on him...not anymore!!(I hope this blog will never reach him...but who cares if it does anyway)...
One entry done! My OSCE will be this Tuesday...pray for me people!!
It's my study week and my first paper is in less than 3 days but I just can resist the temptation to write an entry about Kak Lilly's wedding..which I wasn't able to attend.. I really wished I was there, on her special day..I really want to capture those moments through my lenses but that just not possible...I have exam!!I'm super broke either but that can still be arranged...it's all because of this very important exam...(budak2 kecik nih..kecik2 dh menyusahkan org kene amek exam pasal diorang...owh..yg kat dlm perut pon same, x kuar lg dh menyusahkan org)
I forgot to mention..Kak Lilly is actually my cousin...she's the same age as my sister, turning 25 this year..the next one in our family would be my sister, my cousin Kak Cik & me...
Pictures taken during Eid-ul-Adha last year..(damn it..I won't be in Msia for that this yr)
Since I wasn't at the wedding to take Kak Lilly's pix myself, I can only steal some of her photos from facebook..(credits to Kak Nini & Tahir)
Kak Lilly's so gorgeous...kan..kan? err...I think I need to shed 10kilos to look half as pretty....
To Kak Lilly n Faiz..I wish you guys a blessed marriage!
I hope there will be another wedding sometime soon which I will be able to attend...please..please...I'll improve my photography skills for you cuzz....hahaha..
aku curik2 tgkp gamba bapak n anak bermain pasir ini...sweet kan?
Pink ajak aku tngkp gamba kat rumah buruk ini..aku mule2 cam "ape brg?bukan ke nk tangkap gamba rumah2 kecik tuh..nih ape kelas? rumah besar dan buruk!"
