After 5 years of hard work .. I finally got what i call the first achievement of my goal … As "cleshae" as it may sound but yeah it seem only yesterday I step into IMU in Bukit JAlil.. I took oath as IMU MBBS graduate on the 8th of august 2008 hehe 08/08/08 … what a number huh … Yeah it was the best moment in my life … 4 years of biochemistry in UM and another 5 years of MBBS in IMU … In united state .. Its common for medical student to have a basic degree .. So it’s not such a biggy to have 2 first degree ..
There are lots of limelight of mylife happens while I was in IMU … The prominant ones of course … exam ! exam !and exam ! … Every exam is a heart pounding experience … starting with the first semester exam .. back in my time we had our exam after one sementer in IMU .. Those who failed this exam can re-sit the exam in a month time… if still failed student will be sacked from the program … Can you imagine, all my classmate are straight A’s students …Its tough thinking that I’m not as smart as others … so work my ass of like crazy … Memorize every word of my notes … Then comes the 3rd semester, 5th, 7th, 9th and lastly the semester 10th exam …
During my clinical years in Seremban Hospital and Batu Pahat, I learn that to be a doctor you need to be a bit above average then general population in term of IQ .. but having a strong mind is not enough .. coz its tiring being medical student .. you have to attend ward round, spending long hours in the ward taking patient history and examining them … not just 1 patient yeah .. more then 3-4 patient every day … then go back read up .. prepare report, presentation, end of posting exam which will be accumulated in final exam … So you need to be not just smart but also active .. thats why student of the future need to involve in school activities if they want to be a doctor to train themselves from the begining … they need to be tough like a rock …
Of course the opportunity to meet and learn from the best people in medicine in malaysia is the main limelight of my life… I feel I’m bless to be in Seremban and BAtu pahat, coz IMU has such a wonderful lecturer teaching us … We have people like Dato’ Kew , Prof Cheong, Dato’ Zaky Murad and Prof Richard in Medical Department, DAto’s KAndasamy and Prof Ramesh in Surgery, DAto’ Siva, Dr. Zain and Dr. Sulaiha in O&G, Prof Boo, Prof Moti and DAto’ Jay in peadiatrics, Prof HArwant in orthopedics, Dr. Loh in family medicine and many2 more …
All these people give a huge impact in my medical profession .. they have molded me and tough me how to approach and think in dealing with patient… tough me to be scientific and evidence based, to look for clinical finding instead of gut feeling, to be professional at all time, to put patient as priority, to continue learning on every patient that I meet and lots more ..
In the end, I finally understood, medicine is about inheriting the responsibility to care for the sick people … Its about doing things the right way … There are lots of malpractice going around as people are doing things their own way .. so in making sure we did the right way, we need something like a blueprint or a DNA to mapped excellence so that newly graduate doctors maintain high standards of health care … for that .. I see the importances of the 8 IMU outcomes proposed to us from day one of our life as a medical student .. By achieving these outcomes, InsyaAllah, the good quality of care will be preserve ..
Truth to say, I only realise the important of these outcome on my final semester …Well, better late then never right ..
