Every junior doctor (houseman) in Malaysia were required to undergo a 5-days course known as Program Transformasi Minda (PTM) carried out at a hotel before officially reporting to your respective hospitals. Mostly every hospital in a certain state will conduct the course together except certain bigger hospitals which conduct it individually due to their huge intake of junior doctors. What is this Program...
Back in early of March, rumours were spreading that there would be an opening for a new batch of doctors to be absorbed by the government hospitals. At that point, I was not feeling very hopeful as several rumours had come and gone all these while; they led to nothing but initial nervousness which ended with disappointment time and time again. This time...
In about a week’s time or less, there will be a group of newly qualified junior doctors in Malaysia who will embark on their housemanship journey, starting off with the Program Transformasi Minda. It’s an exciting time but also nerve-wrecking. That was me more than 8 months ago: a fresh graduate in June and suddenly a proper doctor with actual responsibilities in August....
Source: thinkstock What is success? To score strings of As in your public exams, but only to realise that the next exam you face becomes more difficult; To gleefully boast that you can now ‘break-free’ from your parents, till you see the pile of dirty laundry in the corner of your dorm room and finally appreciate that there is nothing better than home; To...
Sorry for this week's post delay. It was due to post-eHousemen-stress-disorder. Photo by Bustle.com I think most of you are thinking whether is this post about how to not be like Jack from Titanic? Nah, I meant the Jack from "All work no play makes Jack a dull boy." Studying medicine is said to be very hectic and one would not be able...
