Paeds @ HSNZ..

2 weeks of Paeds summary:

- made friends with medical students (from Polland, Ukraine & Moscow, and UCSI) and the HOs.

- was attached to a really nice Specialist who turns out to be my mum's 3rd cousin's husband (3/4 of people in Terengganu are related) haha

- had a rough session with the HoD in the ECHO room. Partly my fault because I didn't do a full examination on the patient but I had to present. Not my fault for always have to be the spoke person when there were other students there. My fault for not being well informed on Thalassaemia, when it is so common here in Malaysia. And not my fault for the HoD to have a bad mood that day after he scolded a junior doctor. Enough about that...

- I brushed up my Terengganu dialect, especially when conversing with the children and the parents. I know my dialect sounds weird, but hey, I'm trying! =P

- The majority of admitted cases were asthma, viral-induced bronchiolitis and nephrotic syndrome. Thalassaemia is the majority in day-care.

- I was the only student to hang around the ward until 5pm.

- I attended Thalassaemia workshop (by the request of HoD.. hehe) on my last day there, and it was on Saturday!

- it took me about an hour to take a full history, mostly due to my lack of Malay vocabulary. It is so hard to translate everything in my head before I can ask questions.. so a lot of erm, aa, hmm...

- some interesting cases, such as Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, Hand-Foot&Mouth disease, Focal segmental glomerulonephritis, and orbital cellulitis. No dengue fever in Terengganu!! =D

- building up my medical terms in Malay languange.

- had a good time playing with the children... =D