Monday, May 25, 2009 - 5:42 PM
teeheehee
I came here with the intention to write about something.. but you know what, I'm not going to write about it haha! because I don't want to waste my time talking about it..
instead, I'll just talk about the good stuff =)
I'm glad to have finished my GP visits and patient visits. I've really learnt so much through these visits and they've made me feel like going for more visits than that required by my curriculum just so that I can continue to be exposed to the real world out there.. I mean when we study, go for lectures, go for labs and tutorials, it's easy to for a moment forget that there is a whole world out there beyond our textbooks and classrooms and exams.. like I can get so caught up in completing assignments and studying for tests that I forget how I should be learning and remembering, not studying and memorising.. my GP visits especially gave me a chance to put to practice so many things I've learnt..
the first visit and first patient had hemachromatosis.. and I thought to myself "ooh what luck that I recently learnt about that or I'll be completely clueless about what's going on now.." then slowly as more patients came and went, I began to realise,"Hey these things that I'm listening to and watching are things we've all learnt in class!" so like for once I remembered we're not doing an A-level course where we're just studying for an exam.. we're doing a freaking uni course where we're learning skills to be used in whatever field we'd be working in.. it was like some kind of enlightenment "so there IS a purpose for my learning after all!" hahaha ok enough with the drama effects..
but in my second visit, there were mostly musculoskeletal and neural cases which we'll be covering next semester.. that got me contemplating the interesting thought that the 1st visit was a "see what you've learnt so far" and the 2nd visit was a "now, see what more you don't know and what you're about to learn in the near future"..
and the patient I visited.. she's a darling.. I will go back and visit one day.. just to talk and keep her company..
thank You Lord for taking care of every little detail of my life and taking full charge of my learning and my life! Just help me not be a walking contradiction and a hypocrite but someone who gives her life to serve You in the way You want me to..
Amen =)
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