hey, im ur senior here..
-what can i say, always thought id be alone here...anyway, i bet u r in ur 3rd year now, so how sibu??

ooo, i didnt know this thread does exist...
im registering myself as a 4th year medical student of University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)..

pbl is a good way in which it can bring the pren-clinical medical students into a 'life' clinical practice..
you will get to know as to why the nephrotic patients' have puffiness of the eye or anywhere on the body, plus the red cell cast finding in the urine UFEME; for instance.
but, enough said, its all depends on the fascillitator who took over the pbl sessions.
like in my school, most of the sessions are being fascilitated by a non-practicing doctor (anatomist/pathologist/biochemist). in the end, if you end up being with a pathologist, they will want you to discuss more on the pathology informations( the ever so extensive details on the pathological course and histopathological findings) rather than bragging about all the crucially-important anatomical aspect of the disease.
wat i wanna suggest here is that, the clinical lecturers should co-operate and play a role in teaching this freshly-newbie medical students so that hopefully when they all come to the clinical years, they do know what are the things that they should emphasize on, and most importantly, utilizing all the basic sciences that they have learned during pre-clinical years..
wat can be seen now, its like the pre-clinical stuff are being stacked far far away when the pre-clinical students enter the clinical practice..

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Added on April 6, 2008, 12:04 pmanybody in here who can help me on this..?
im considering of doing a specialty in neurosurgery.may i know wat are the routes/options that i have to take in order to be one..?
i have been told by the senior neurosurgeon medical officer that malaysia has started to recruit@train those who are interested to take neurosurgeon as a specialty but ofcourse, it will be under the recommendation from the senior specialist.
the training is somewhere in usm if im not mistaken..just wanna know in detail about this and any other methods available..
thanx in advance

This post has been edited by zergg: Apr 6 2008, 12:04 PM

ill be sitting for my professional exam in 30 weeks time.
any tips on how to excel in my mcq's paper?

its my final year professional exam
im not sure about marks allotments...but throughout my postings, mcq contributed 25% (plus BAQ) of the overall 50% of theory papers

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Added on August 21, 2008, 11:01 pmand yeah, ill be having my ObGyn SAQ this coming wednesday...ARGH!!

This post has been edited by zergg: Aug 21 2008, 11:01 PM

thanx for that, dont worry.time will pass by very slowly once u are ni medical school..
haha, dont worry la, everything will be a blast. it seems like yesterday i enter medical school, and yet now-ill be working in no time

-btw, any suggestions from the others regarding the final professional exams would be very much appreciated

thanx

i would say, choosing or being specialized in certain field of sub specialty is merely a matter 'luck'.
i was once told by my ObGyn specialist that "it seems like most of you would want to be a paediatrician in the near future, but trust me when the time comes 90% of these numbers will end up being an ObGyn specialist, just like i did"
we (~or was it me~), dont really give a hood on what she had told us before until as the time passes, it is so much easier to just take the offer rather than looking for it on your own.