Sunday, November 22, 2009

May this be the last time..


this is how my desk looks like during the day before VIA* exam..
VIA=vertical integrated assessment...the exam that assesses everything from 1st yr till now...hopefully I won't need to sit for this exam again next year..Amin...

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Non-weight bearing OK!

so today I had my GP & Psych OSCE...for those who doesn't know what OSCE is bleh refer my old post nih...
As usual, sure ade bende bodoh happens during the OSCE..akan ade laa situasi di mane I would left my stickers in the stations...well, sticker nih kene carry with us in every station, kat sticker tuh ade ID number yg kene kasik kat examiner n they will attach them to the assessment sheet..ade jugak laa part yg terangkut instructions yg supposedly kene tinggal for next candidate..standard laa tuh..

but the funniest thing I said today was at the 2nd station...in this station, we were given the knee X-ray findings of a 50++ y/o lady n we should tell the diagnosis & manage the patient...as part of the management process, I told the lady that having an osteoarthritic knee, she would benefit from doing exercise...I cared to say specifically that it should be a weight-bearing exercise!!aahahha...
looking a bit shocked, she asked, "did u say weight-bearing exercise?"..I was like, "yeah, the one that doesn't put too much pressure on your knees...", she continued on saying, "what sort of exercise is weight-bearing?"..not knowing what to say..I told her I'll give her a handout about the sort of exercise that she should be doing...I should mention that when I said weight-bearing, Andrew Beveridge (the examiner + my tutor) stopped writing & put on a very serious face...he must think that I really want to be an orthopaedic surgeon who wants to benefit from a knee replacement surgery, the sooner the joint is damage, the richer I will be!!hahahah....bodoh2....(he must have a not-so-long thought whether or not he should pass me, a dangerous doctor!!)

I like to write more about the other stations but this one is the funniest, it deserves a special entry!