Winter Travels (V) – Muslim Travelers

Muslims performing ‘Asr prayer in Hyde Park, London

Being a Muslim is both a blessing and a challenge. Despite the rising Islamophobia in Europe, the European people are generally warm and welcoming to the Muslims. The most important challenges for Muslims in Europe are praying and getting halal food.

Winter Travels (IV) – What To Do?

 

This entry is a continuation of Winter Travel (I), Winter Travel (II) and Winter Travel (III).

Once you’ve reached your desired destination, what should you do? Different people have different interests and styles, so this blog post is totally from my own experience and interests. You can totally disregard any part of this post if you think it’s not suitable for you.

Winter Travels (III) – Transportation

 

This entry is a continuation of Winter Travels and whatnots (I) and Winter Travels (II) – Where To Go?.

Transportation alone constitutes more than half of anyone’s travel expenses to Europe. My explanation in this entry is oriented on how to travel cheap, safe and secure while getting to where you want to go. For those who want to travel luxuriously, this entry might be of little value.

Winter Travel (II) – Where To Go?

This entry is a continuation of Travels and Whatnots (I). I shall continue to elaborate on the most important part – WHERE TO GO?

Winter Travels and whatnots (I)

It’s November already. Medical students in Nizhniy are excited to go places for winter holidays. I’m sure everyone’s got their own travel tips, but I’d like to pitch in as well, specifically for med students in NNSMA, speaking from experience.

Surgery Posting

I am currently doing Surgery posting in the allegedly best referral hospital in Nizhniy Novgorod region. Surgery posting is not-so-intense posting, like other med schools in the world, but once you work as a doctor in surgery department, it’s probably a whole different story.

Things to ponder about before choosing hospitals

It is true that you may not get which hospital you asked for (housemanship, MOship onwards). You may apply for metropolitan KL but the government wants you to serve in Sandakan. That does not mean you should give up asking. Before applying for the hospital you desire, it’s imperative that you consider all factors:

Finding inspiration

Let’s face the truth, some Malaysian students in Russia lacks inspiration and passion in their studies, whether they are clinical or pre-clinical students. Let’s find out what are the causes of the problems and suggest solutions to these freaking problems.

• Inconducive learning environment – There’s no excuse NOT to go to lectures and classes (unless you are sick or dead), but when there are 70 students in one batch and only 40 places to sit in a lecture hall, how does one expect everyone to come? There’s barely a place to sit, let alone a place for you to write lecture and stretch your legs. So the mindset of some people is “might as well I go back to my room and sleep than attending good lectures in an inconducive environment”. Plus, it’s just too tiring to travel from point A to point B (traffic madness, long journey, no place to even stand in a bus, pickpockets) when there’s no central campus to accommodate lectures, labs, clinics and hospitals in one place. This is more of administrative problem which students can do nothing about (hey, million bucks is on the line here!). We’ll just have to toughen up and work it out!

September Snippets

• I have to congratulate the new MSA (2009/2010) for doing a very efficient job, although they took office no more than 2 weeks ago. They handled the first years and the meeting with Malaysian delegations very well.
• It’s still early to say, but so far they’re one fine team.
• They have this new, fresh and positive energy that makes everything work. This is the attitude we need for MSA!
• They form partnership with students from various student bodies, thus making more people willing to cooperate to service our small Malaysian community.

MSA 2009/2010

Below is the name list of the new MSA officers, who obtained their respective posts without contest, and took office as of 9pm September 21, 2009.

 

EXECUTIVE BOARD:

President: Lim Kheng Huat (5th year)
Vice President: Mohamad Hafiz Harun (3rd year)
Secretaries: Chan Soy Yi (3rd year) and Michael Pui Sia Chin (3rd year)
Treasurer: Darshini (4th year)

BATCH REPRESENTATIVES:

6th year: Jeremy Siew Taat Heng
5th year: Neville anak Michael Gomis
4th year: Jack
3rd year: Yeoh Hui Wei
2nd year: Aaron Kong Tze Kwang

ADVISOR:

Faiz Najmi bin Mansor (6th year)

 

Good luck serving the community to MSA 2009/2010!

Edil pitri

Efenem dan keluarga serta rakan-rakan mengucapkan Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri kepada semua umat Islam seluruh dunia. Selamat menyambot lebaran dengan tidak melebarkan badan. Sekian.

Housemanship in Malaysia – best in the world!

Here’s a little something for the tomorrow-to-be housemen and current housemen. It’s old news, but portrays the brutal reality. Hopefully your housemanship is not as stressful as these people

Source: The Star

 

After completing a gruelling course, young doctors have another challenge to face – a demanding two-year housemanship where they rely on lots of coffee, cope with very little sleep and put up with public chastisements.

SHE had always wanted to be a doctor but six months into her housemanship, she snapped and just couldn’t take the stress anymore.

*Kavitha found the workload and endless hours on call a real burden, sapping her energy and spirit. Today, says her concerned father *Gurdave, she is close to having a nervous breakdown and is seeing a psychiatrist for counselling.

“The work load was too heavy and the hours too long. When she was on call, she sometimes had to work for up to 36 hours straight. She wants to be transferred to another hospital but every hospital is just as bad.

New Case

Here in Russia, we clerk patients who were admitted days or weeks before. That means the patients are mostly already investigated, diagnosed and treated. Sometimes, they are already well and awaiting discharge from the hospital.

Ramadhan Special: Kepala Lembu

Below is the video by Malaysiakini on what happened in Shah Alam seksyen 23.