Waiting for the Call

There’s a feedback session in NUS at 10am today. While J. would have liked to attend, he lacks a certain belief in his own MBBS medicine track performance. Therefore, he and many others like him opted to stay home, somewhat comfortable in the knowledge that should the dreaded call (“You are required to attend an [...]

Day Before Medicine Clinicals

It’s a little bit difficult to study with the rampaging cortisol levels and the occasional ‘What if?’ messages ringing in my ears.
The sheer breadth of information required is daunting, and the surgical clinicals have exposed what appears to be a lack of showsmanship.
Paediatrics is unfamiliar ground, and the people I’m studying with display an incredible [...]

Link: Uncyclopedia Entry on NUS

The antithesis of Wikipedia, here’s Uncyclopedia! Check out the following entry:
National University of Singapore, home of Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, among other faculties.
P.S. Don’t bother reading the other articles on Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, etc. They look like they’re written by someone who thinks he’s the funniest thing ever (he’s not). At least [...]

Surgery MBBS Clinical Examination

The Surgery MBBS clincal examinations were held in various hospitals across Singapore, one on each weekday. The Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) one was held on Tuesday at the Communicable Diseases Centre 2 (CDC 2).
It was very well organised with clear signage, comfortable clinic rooms (though J. was still sweating at the cases), well-primed patients, [...]

Replacing a Damaged MobileGear Mouse

Almost one year ago in April, J. bought a MobilGear Navigator Retractable Laser Mouse (Model no.: IMM132) from Funan DigitaLife Mall. Some time down the road, in the midst of adjusting the camera in Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer (which can be performed with either the middle mouse button or the ‘Z’ keyboard [...]

Vaccination in Singapore

Addendum (25/05/2008): Have changed the compulsory and optional headings to recommended and enhanced regimes. Many thanks to angrydoctor for pointing it out.
While blog-surfing, J. was surprised to notice there’s a pretty vocal antivaccine movement in the West. “Antivaccine” because J. can’t figure out if they’re talking about thimerosal, symptoms suggestive of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) [...]

The Loss of Paeds Cards

Once upon a time, J. had a beautiful little set of cards. They were large, colourful with simple objects and huge lettering, packaged into a nice little bag in a red box.
Perfect for the Paediatics kit. Perfect for developmental assessment for kids.
J. lent it to someone. He went to Canada for 2.5 months. He neglected [...]

Video: Hand in Hand Ballet Video

What do you think about when you hear ‘amputee’? Poorly controlled diabetes? Severe crush injuries? Malignant melanoma? The failure of faith healing? The landmines of Cambodia?
Ballet? The following performance is to a song titled 牵手 (translation: linking hands).

MBBS: The End of Written Exams

Last week, there were 3 written papers for the Medicine Track, which included topics from dermatology, geriatrics, psychiatry and naturally, General Medicine and Paediatrics. It began with an essay paper, followed by Modified Essay Questions (MEQ) done on the computers in the computer lab via IVLE and last multiple choice questions (MCQs) which basically murdered [...]

Webcomic: Subnormality!

SUBNORMALITY!

It’s part of Virus Comix. It’s wordy, it’s well drawn, it’s quirky and it pokes fun at many things: from rock music to religion.