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This class is mostly the same as from 2^nd year study. We had the same doctors, mostly talking about the same situations. However, the focus this year is a bit different than the last. This year’s internal medicine is hosted by the hypertension department, thus most of the topics were related to cardiovascular system.

This was 2 week course, so get ready for cardiology hailstorm! Aside from needing to know the differences in EKG strip (unfortunately this was only covered for 2 days and it ain’t easy!) trying to listen to heart murmurs and other heart abnormalities was also another challenge.

Also, another 2 week course, but I did enjoy this department because the doctors were all very good at teaching and has a very good attitude. Although there was a bit too much repetition on daily basis, but I think it was a good course and lots of valuable information.

If you want to have hands-on surgery assisting opportunity, don’t count on this course. If you want to see how they perform the surgery, don’t expect to see much. The reason is because the operating field is generally a very small opening, thus aside from the surgeon and his assistant, there isn’t much room for student to see anything. Though the surgeon would, from time to time, move aside and point out items of interest for students to see. However, there isn’t much. The class is just one week long, and it’s 3 days in one place, 2 days in the other hospital. Therefore, the coordination of information between the two places isn’t very good and they have no idea what they were supposed to teach us.

This is an interesting course, for the first 3 days. Aside from all the GI problems that can occur, there isn’t many physical exams or diagnostic tools to exam the patients. Perhaps this should be a one week course instead of 2 weeks long.

Two weeks in orthopaedics just isn’t enough time to fully appreciate all the different fractures, dislocations, and injury to soft tissue and bones. There are too much information in this course to absorb in 2 weeks. However, most of doctors are very good at teaching the clinical portion, and we were able to practice putting on a plaster cast! Also, we did not have opportunity to watch any surgeries, so some aspects of the orthopaedic wasn’t experienced.

5 weeks of this course and I still wish I have more! We were able to scrub-in to assist in the surgery, and it is definitely a different experience than watching. Suturing, bandaging, inserting catheter, removing sutures, etc… can all be performed by the students per request. We also had to learn about pre-operation and post-operation patient care. It was a very rewarding experience in this class.

As valuable as this class was, it was too short. Only 3 days! Very few topics were covered in this class. If only vascular surgery is this easy…

Actually this was a difficult class. There were a lot of information given. The expectation from the doctors were very high. Overall this class is average in terms of teaching quality. Not a very exciting class.

I enjoyed this class because diabetic patients can be of almost any age and it can happen to almost everyone. It is good to learn how to control blood-sugar levels, to know what are the causes and how to avoid it. If it can’t be avoided, how to cope with diabetes is very important. Although just 3 days, it was enjoyable.

This is another hailstorm class. 2 days of this class and you are expected to know everything! Definitely need to be a longer class, or smaller amount of information for 2 days! Everything from neurotransmitters to adrenal glands to all the acid-base metabolic balances were discussed.

This class was held by the general surgery department, and there were not many oncology patients there. Most of the topics were already covered in the general surgery class. The lack of oncology patients was disappointing. We would like to request this class be held at an oncological specific department if possible.

One week of this class and I’m not sure what I actually learned. Sure, there were information about CSF pressure calculation and ways of handling traumatic head injury that I did not know about. However, not much topics were covered in this class. Eventhough the doctors were good, but the topic and organization needs some work to improve this class.