Yeah, it’s the end of SIP. I approach this with mixed feelings…
But first, I’d like to apologise for giving you all a medicine-only feed for the past boring 6 weeks plus, I think my already pathetic readership has dwindled to numbers countable with just my fingers. Anyway, I’ll try to blog with more variety after this final SIP post.
Firstly, it’s great that I no longer have to reach the hospital at 730am just to trace results or to leave at 7pm when the A&E decides to send up pts at 529pm. bleah. It’s also great that now I can really go see cases, study what I really need to study and so on… and best of all, don’t need to do calls, and don’t have to go to work on Sundays! :) :) :)
But it’s the start of our hectic last few months of medical school. And I already start feeling the overwhelming presure of the information I have to install into my brain before D day. :( :( :( I don’t know how to go about it, or watever… I think I need to form a study group!
I’m also really scared that I’m going to dip into a bout of lows soon, since now there’s nothing wearing me down everyday. Just on Thurs nite, I spent dunno how many hours tearing before I managed to fall asleep. But this is another bedtime story for another night…
My comments regarding SIP:
1. It’s a fantastic experience, cuz we learn to do REAL stuff. For once, we don’t get shooed away and we’re treated more with respect. hahaha…
2. It’s a great time to learn how to work with all other healthcare workers, especially the nurses, and also the physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, and the dietician. Sometimes, we have ‘run-ins’ with the pharmacists too (normally it’s when we can’t locate the IMRs).
3. Learning how to update patient’s relatives: I’m really careful when I have to do this, or attempt to do this, usually when the HO and MO is away… It’s very scary how some relatives can be.
4. I really appreciated the continuity of care, which I got to experience tremendously, since some of my pts are chronic stayers and a couple got re-admitted. It made me re-think Emed.
5. 6 weeks is FAR too long. 4 weeks is just about sufficient. The last 2 weeks would be better used in paeds or study break. After all, in yr 5, we really do need to get our facts and practical stuff at our finger tips!
6. I would really appreciate some modicum of allowance, (i mean, even the pharm students get 5bux a day, which at least pays for lunch…) I sincerely believe that humans cannot feed themselves based on ‘prestige’. Apparently, this topic was broached during the dean’s meeting with some of the students, and his reply made me feel utter disappointment in the pple leading my faculty.
