- I have to congratulate someone for being a candidate in one of the top posts in the International Students Union. Being even the candidate was not really smooth-sailing because it was kinda last minute, but somehow things really worked out. If chosen, responsibilities await.
- Got to assist in knee mobilization surgery yesterday. As the second assistant, I was just the humble servant to the main surgeon and the 1st assistant. What I did was just elevating the leg, rotating it internally, applying and cutting bandages, wiping blood, widening and clearing the surgical field as per instructions by the real surgeons.
Senyoooomm
MMC and Traumatology
Today marks a new day of my new cycle – traumatology and orthopedics. Yesterday we had exam on ophthalmology, and let’s just say I was very very lucky 
Traumatology class started with us getting acquainted with traumatology in Russian Federation. Then the teacher went to operate his patient. We played Bingo and Battleship. Then watched war surgeries. Then breakfast. Then Bingo again! 
Ngenge traumatology is fun!
Guides to housemanship in Malaysia
Got this from Malaysian Medical Council website. Here are some of the PDF guidebooks worth downloading:
- A guidebook for House Officers (935 kb)
- List of hospitals approved for Houseman training (55.7 kb)
- Medical Act 1971 (133 kb) – about laws and stuffs
- List of recognized medical institutions (350 kb)
- List of unrecognized medical institutions (81 kb)
- Duties of a doctor
** If you have trouble downloading, please go to workgroup –> EFENEMOCOCCUS –> Trekstor –> AAAA download umah –> MMC
**For Nizhnians only!! Please do not rely on sharing. Most of the time I do not share…
MSA: Meeting with MMC panelists
Meeting between Malaysian students of NNSMA and the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) panelists.
Date: 29th October 2008 (Wednesday)
Time: 5.00 – 6.00 p.m.
Venue: 1st Hostel Hall
Agenda: Studying medicine in Nizhniy Novgorod State Medical Academy.
Panelists and speakers:
- Datuk Dr. Yeoh Poh Hong (Council Member)
- Dr. Milton Lum Siew Wah (Council Member)
- Dato’ Dr. Abdul Hamid Abd. Kadir (Council Member)
- Dr. Wan Mazlan Bin Mohd. Woojdy (Secretary)
- Mr. Azman Ishak (JPA Moscow)
All Malaysian students are invited to come to the meeting to talk about academic life, life in Nizhniy Novgorod, hostels, career development and prospects, practical skills and many more!
By: Faiz Najmi (MSA President 2008/2009)
Moskau
On 24th of October 2008 (Friday), a group of 30 Malaysian students of NNSMA went to Moscow. This trip is fully paid by the embassy and most of the students took the business class cabin to Moscow.
Arrived in Kazanskiy Vokzal at 8 a.m. Mr. Azman of JPA said I have the power to order the bus around for the whole day. So at first I ordered the bus to go to embassy because I wanted to poop. Not just me la, everyone else too
Some minutes after doing stuffs in embassy, all 30 students boarded the bus and decided to go Arbat. So Arbat we went
Somewhere in Arbat. Don’t know don’t care. It was morning and I was cold.
Picture in old Arbat street. Kinda disappointed. I think Pakrovka street in Nizhniy is longer than Arbat
Breakfasting with salads in Baguetteria. Should have put the receipt for claim like certain people… grrr!!
Extra Practical Classes (EPC)
I just realized that I was getting feedbacks from everyone but I haven’t give my own thoughts yet on EPC. Well, not as an official entry in my own blog. I am writing here as efenem, not the MSA President.
Relevance
The 6 years of medical education in NNSMA should have made the students here a lot more proficient in medical knowledge and medical skills, compared to 4 years for US students and 5 years for other medical school students in the world. During housemanship, our graduates from Russian medical schools should have been the best compared to the others.
But the deans already admitted that our medical education is not enough to prepare us clinically and practically during housemanship. You can ask Professor Zagainov, Prof. Strongin, Lydia Alekseevna, and Dean Erlykina themselves. And for the first time, I reaalllllllllyy agree with them. Or should I say, they now agree with my already long-established opinion??
Sarawak – a place like no other
Sarawak More Than a Paradise Theme Song (4-minute video)
Makes me feel like quitting med school and go to Sarawak for adventure!
And probably ngenge a little bit
Cardiosurgery rotation
Cardiosurgery – sounds like a big, important and glamorous rotation.
Not really, though. Well, at least it’s so much better than epidemiology by babi blonde (or fu*k face as described by kochi). We didn’t get any chance to observe or assist in any fancy surgeries tho. Just discussion in class and clerking patients. Better than epidemiology
Sembang raya – kahwin cepat
Tadi masa open house banyak makan……….
Tapi efenem masih kurus ngenge
Semuanya sedap belaka, terima kasih kepada manusia-manusia yg sanggup tidur lewat dan bangun awal untuk masak-masak open house. Efenem mengucapkan terima kasih banyak kerana membantu nutrisi efenem di kala efenem undernutitrion dan mempunya hanya 30 ruble dalam wallet.
BITCH
Today is the day of rounds. I followed the grand rounds in Cardiac Center Nizhniy Novgorod, learning congenital heart defects. And I also did my grand rounds in blogosphere, looking for something interesting to read.
There are indeed many interesting things to read. Go read yourself.
But I want to bring something that I found in Life of Medicine and Magic.
Mnemonic – is important in medicine. Well, at least for med students “kindergarten kids” tho…
Ngenge snippets
Extra practical classes (EPCs)
This is the never ending issue. For government students, they do not have to go thru the headache of whether this can be refunded or not. Everything has been paid for them and the EPC is compulsory. The only thing I did for them is requesting improvements of the EPC.
The private students who do not want to undergo this EPC might have a big headache whether they can get refund or not. To be honest, I receive multiple contradicting statements from many sources; Lydia, Erlykina, Zagainov and Mr. Ng.
The poor communication between the Deans themselves, the Deans and Russian Resources, the Deans and the students resulting in headache for everyone, especially efenem, from whom everyone expects to have the answers.
As a result; some notices have to be removed, some hopes have to be crushed, until final confirmation and/or written statements are obtained.
People say the President shouldn’t complain. If everyone complains to the President, the President complains to whom? His blog saje lah…
MSA Snippets
Anonymity
When the MSA blog was first launched, very few people wrote comments. They have to be registered with google, blogger or other open IDs such as wordpress.
I requested the chief webmaster to open for anonymity. The reason is that the MSA wants to hear opinions, doesn’t matter from who. As you all already know, most of us can’t even spend 2 minutes of our lifetime for registration.
That is what happened last year and the year before. The forums are dead. The perfectly created website is unutilized. Reason: no one is interested because requires registration.
I know some anonymous comments are irresponsible. But some anons write good comments too. The webmaster’s job is to moderate irresponsible comments. Unless you have a point, shooting and bashing people in anonymity or without anonymity are never good to begin with.
The last thing MSA wants is the demise of the simple blog. Please write your comments responsibly.
