KELIIINIK!

Alright then, its been ages since I wrote anything here.. Quite sometime after Hari Raya Aidil Fitri I started my clinical years.

YEAS PEOPLE!!!! I MADE IT INTO THE CLINICAL YEARS!!

its tiring i guess... well... I guess...

So before I rant on I should really explain to you what clinicals are all about... we are the pioneer batch for what the Faculty calls it "inter-grated clinic"... the whole floor of the clinic is opened up and we are free to use the clinic as our own practice with supervision from the doctors and during this period of time we are to fulfill all our requirements... so in short if i have a single patient with multiple requirements, I can handle the patient from start to finish independently. this clinic excludes Oral Surgery, Radiology, pediatric dentistry, and Public Dental Health education.

so now that you are up to speed.. it looks all shimmy and cool huh? you get to play dentist!

but then again... the troubles the faculty fail to see are oh so many...

1. LACK OF CUBICLES
the faculty takes a total of more less 160 students per intake and about 130 manage to get into this inter-grated clinic as scheduled. the thing is... the work space (read: cubicles) provided do not add up to even a mere 80. and we have to technically fight for a cubicle every morning... please take note that not every cubicle is in good working condition... almost every unit is faulty...

2. DOCTORS ARE SUPPOSED TO TEACH THE STUDENTS RIGHT?
so it goes that when we enter the clinical phase that we are given all the knowledge beforehand and we just practice the theory we learned. but take not, we still need to be guided non-the-less... this is not what happens... instead, when the we fail to answer a theoretical question, they send us off and tell us to look for the answer.. now I do not mind if this is a method of teaching but this is done AS THE PATIENT IS WAITING TO BE TREATED. we are supposed to get approval from the doctors before we work. having to find the answer we let the patient wait... where are the ethics? it would be so much better if we are called after the patient is treated and discuss the theory...

3. ITS ALL ABOUT REQUIREMENTS
in the heat of things, we are so caught up in getting the signatures for the requirements that in the end its all about racing to get things done... we read the manual given, finish the job and thats it. its not about the passion to do it properly anymore. we dont learn as much to become a dentist.. its all about finishing on time... thats not learning... thats just labor...

4. NO PATIENTS, NO WORK.
thats the whole deal. some of us pack up and go home... cool eh?



well thats it for now... I guess some good will come out of this... this university is said to be world class... so they must know what they are doing ryte? am i ryte?