Printer Outsourcing & Reminder for Workshop on Access Medicine, Access Surgery and Access Pharmacy

Dear all,

Just in case you have not checked your IMU email account, here is a small reminder with regards to the new printers at IMU and how to get your password to use them. Hope all is going well with your revision for summative!

Dear Students,

We are pleased to inform you that the print outsourcing services will begin operations as of 7 December 2009.

To be able to print, you will be required to register at the counter located at MPH 6 between 8.30am to 12.00pm and 1.00pm to 5.30pm from 7 December 2009 to 18 December 2009.

Upon registration, your remaining balance will be transferred to the new system and you will be given a unique pin to be used as your password for printing.

Regards,

IMU Administrator

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Dear All,

The Centre for Medical Education (CtME), with the assistance of the Library and E-Learning Department have scheduled a continuing series of lunchtime educational sessions in support of advancing e-learning and use of digital resources at IMU.

A two hour Workshop on Access Medicine, Access Surgery and Access Pharmacy facilitated by Ms Elaine Low of Access Dunia is scheduled for Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 12.00 - 2.00pm in E-Lab 1, Level 3 , Bukit Jalil. This workshop is opened all faculty and students.

Description
A workshop on e-book collections and how to maximize your usage. Three main bundles which are subscribed by IMU:

1. Access Medicine is an innovative online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, researchers, and all health professionals with access to more than 60 medical titles from the best minds in medicine, updated content, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, diagnostic tools, a comprehensive search platform, and the ability to download content to a mobile device.

Updated frequently and expanded continuously by world-renowned physicians, AccessMedicine provides fast, direct access to the information necessary for completing evaluations, diagnoses, and case management decisions, as well as for pursuing research, medical education, or self-assessment and board review.

2. Access Surgery is an integrated online resource that provides medical students, surgical residents, and practicing surgeons with quick answers to surgical inquiries from trusted sources. Organized around the ACGME's (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) mandate for a Core Curriculum, AccessSurgery delivers content in context.

3. Access Pharmacy is designed to meet the changing demands of pharmacy education. A flexible and robust resource, AccessPharmacy allows students to select a core curriculum topic, browse by organ system, review textbooks, or search across leading pharmacy online references.

Come and listen to the McGraw-Hill product experts.

Kindly confirm you participation with CtME

Thank you

Catherine
CtME

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Student Representative Council
International Medical University
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Stress & Anxiety Level Survey

Dear friends who are completing this survey,

Thank you sooo much for volunteering to complete this survey. I know you all are busy with summative preparation & all, that's why I'm even more grateful that you all are willing to help.

The survey is from our senior Ghi Waie (C1/09) from the Clinical School in Seremban. It's about Stress & Anxiety Levels amongst medical students. It's only 14 questions long, won't take much of your time (I hope).

Please following the following instructions to complete the survey:

1. Download the survey form. -> http://www.easy-share.com/1908714889/HADS2.doc

2. Complete the survey form (underline your responses)

3. E-mail the form back to me (E-mail: eldenrumbapan89@yahoo.co.uk), don't need to include your name, but state whether you're MALE or FEMALE. (not to be sexist or anything) Haha.

It's as easy as 1, 2, 3!!!

Thanks again ya.

All d best for summatives! :)

Important: How to get in touch with SRC

Dear all,

Please do inform all your batch mates of this.

Of course students are more than welcome to approach council members at all times in person with any concerns they have, but we would like to inform the students of alternative ways. All this will be permanently on the Contact Us page in the SRC blog.

Especially the feedback board in the atrium, as we check it often and we have as of yet never received feedback on it. We assume it is because not many students are aware of this.

Recently we have received a lot of feedback from students and we are very grateful for this. I would like to encourage students to always give us feedback, both positive and negative, and to keep us constantly updated about their concerns.

We are located inside the student lounge, at LG. Our working hours are from 9AM - 6PM on weekdays.
We have an SRC Board in the Atrium which keeps you updated about SRC. It also has a Student Directory and personal contact details for each SRC member.

There is also a feedback board next to the SRC Board for any and all feedback on IMU. SRC does check this board often.


Around IMU there are many phones placed (as shown below). They are all around campus, even in the MPH, PBL area and in the lecture theaters. You can reach SRC by dialling 6601.
Other ways to contact us are:

1. Email - imusrc@gmail.com
2. Leave a comment on our posts on our blog.
   

Warmest regards,
Zia Shah

Green Lung Carnival Competitions

Dear all,

I'm a student from USM. For your acknowledgment, Green Lung, is a voluntary organization in USM which supports a tobacco-free environment. Green Lung will organize a Green Lung Carnival 2010 in the month of February next year. With this, competitions will be held prior to the carnival.

The three different competitions are:

1. Video making
2. Poster designing
3. Song Composing
   

All entries must be original work in either English or Bahasa Malaysia.

Attached with this email are the poster, rules and regulations and the permission letter for the competitions.

If you have any inquiries please contact me. You can also visit our blog for more information.

We appreciate for your cooperation and thank you for your support.

Regards,
Ms. Lee
017-4052287

Quick Announcements

Dear all,

Here are a few quick announcements!

1. New printers have arrived! You can collect your personal pin number for the printer from MPH 6 or you can ask the IT Department where to collect it from. These printers are outsourced (to outsource means to obtain goods or services from an outside supplier; to contract work out.) and because it is a MYR 2 million ringgit project meant for both BJ and Seremban it had taken a while to get everything settled. I will be emailing soon about what students can get from the printers and the official pricing of printing.
   
2. There are now two more PCs in the Student Lounge for students to use. Just a reminder: please switch off the PC once you are done and no one else is using it. Please make sure that even the switches are off because otherwise they are left on overnight and it is a waste of electricity.
   
3. We are working on fixing the gym equipment with the assistance of the Gym Club and SSD. We hope students can be slightly patient with us on this as we need to evaluate which equipment is not working and then get it fixed.
4. The Welfare meeting is on the 15th of December (next Tuesday). If you have any concerns about facilities or student welfare you would like to voice out feel free to let us know. You can contact me or Nirmal or email imusrc@gmail.com. Here are the issues we are bringing up:
1. Soundproofing the music room
2. Hill-top carpark
3. Lockers to place valuables in for MDLs
4. Extending student lounge hours
5. Printers
6. More places to eat around IMU
7. Problems with teaching venues
   

Warmest regards,
Zia Shah

Doctors of Tomorrow Forum Summary

Dear all,

Here is a very brief summary of what was discussed during the Doctors of Tomorrow Forum as requested by students. We are trying to get the video uploaded on the I Drive and on CDs for students who were unable to go to view it.

It was really quite an enlightening forum. Each speaker was given 5 minutes to speak and below are my personal notes from the forum.

From Prof Victor Lim: Just a note of caution. Many are expressing their own personal views so don't take everything as the gospel truth. The important thing is to reflect on what has been said and to focus on how to become a good health care professional of tomorrow. Do not be too concerned about the statistics quoted. A good doctor will always be in demand globally.

Speaker: Ms. Ranjit Kaur a/p Pritam Singh, Patients' Representative

• Enabling environment
• When with the doctor the patient should be able to speak openly and feel safe to express feelings and ask any questions without being made feel stupid.
• Patients should not be judged by doctors nor should the doctor ever say "Am I the doctor or you?"
• Communication skills are important:
• Body language
• give support
• speaking abilities
  
• Breaking bad news
• Most doctors need immense training in this
• They need to be able to give the patient proper information and support
• Enable patient to have a voice
• Give the patients choices
  
• Doctors shouldn't be afraid to say "I'm not too sure about this, let me refer you to..."
  
• Conspiracy of silence
• Doctors should not keep a patients condition from the patient just because the family member requested for it.
• Doctors should realize that when this is requested for, the family member is in need of counseling and support as well.
  
• Doctors communication
• Doctors should have better communication with other doctors, especially in front of patients.
  

Speaker: Dr. Milton Lum Siew Wah, Malaysian Medical Council Representative

• Training of Doctors
• Current criteria for entry (academics and extracurricular activities) is very important but not enough. IMU also needs to do more than just interview to select students.
• Improving quality of staff is vital in any university.
• For housemen there should be objective assessment.
  
• What has gone wrong with the medical profession?
• Doctors are perceived (and often act) arrogant.
  
• Professionalism + good practitioner + life long learner = Doctor
• Professionalism is a set of values, behaviour and relationship.
  

Speaker: Dato' Dr. Ronald Stephen McCoy, Malaysian Medical Association

• Professionalism + Medical Ethics
• Western Medicine has two types of education:
• Overt -> the factual education.
• Covert -> education from the high expectation from society.
  
• "Medication is a vocation distinguished by altruism and social responsibility."
• Challenges
• Educational challenges that begin from secondary school itself (government schools).
• Ensuring a culture of excellence (high standards).
  
• "Apart from knowledge, professionalism, ethics and compassion transforms a doctor into a healer."
• Qualities of a Doctor
• Capable of taking ultimate responsibility
• Non-judgemental
• Empathy
• Integrity
  
• Advocacy
• Doctors often forget that there are other causes of death apart from disease and illness.
• For eg. war casualties often ignored by medical profession.
  
• Within our vocation to voice out against it.
  

Speaker: Dr. Ian Ong Chye Heng, Academy of Family Physician, Malaysia

• Community medicine
• Community family care is what most doctors will end up practicing.
  
• Attributes of a good doctor
• Attitude
• towards what your patient wants is very important
• Sometimes patients wish to be well but take very little action, therefore we have to convince them
  
• Dynamic Intelligence
• We have to be highly adaptable
  
• Application and analysis
• Apply knowledge
• Analyse information presented
  
• both to be done at patients level
  
• Atmosphere
• of learning environment
• Chronic illness is extremely prevalent regardless of specialisation
• students need to know it well and keep themselves constantly updated
  
• Foundation
• A good foundation is required for doctors to know how proceed when presented with rare/unknown/unfamiliar conditions
  
• Skills
• Good examination skills are of extreme importance
• Foundation skills allow doctors to process the knowledge
  
• Practice management
  

Speaker: Prof Dato' Dr. Khalid Kadir, Past Master of Academy of Medicine, Malaysia

• Future
• Produce doctors of high standards so that patients will develop high confidence in them.
  
• Patients
• are receiving treatment from the entire health care system, not doctors alone.
• cater to patients need to know what doctors know.
  
• Teaching
• adapt teaching to the new technology without letting go of soft and important skills like proper Physical Examination.
• remove redundant skills which are known to be not so efficient.
  
• Evidence Based Medicine
• is a must
• teaches how to assess knowledge and how what is learned is applicable
• Monash has one whole semester on it
  
• Teachers
• have teachers who are trained to teach undergraduates - not postgraduates (as is often the case)
• These teachers should have experience in private practices as well
• best to have teachers who are still practicing
  

Speaker: Dr. Ng Char Hong, IMU Alumni Representative

• System-based teaching in IMU
• is good because anatomy, physiology and biotechnology can be applied to appropriate illnesses and diseases
  
• Concrete foundation is needed
  
• Aberdeen (where the speaker transferred to for PMS)
• Sessions with patient interaction are videotaped and then evaluated as a group
  
• In Phase 4
• there are no exams apart from OSCE
• Students are solely attached to wards
• Therefore when students graduate they have good communication skills
  
• Soft Skills
• Knowledge can be built on bu soft skills need to be acquired primarily

Warmest regards,
Zia Shah

USMLE marketing research project

Dear all,

A major provider of medical education products is currently recruiting for a market research project on exam revision for MRCP and USMLE exams.

The groups will take place in Penang and Kuala Lumpur between 15th and 17th January 2010 and last 1.5- 2 hours. Attendees will be paid 100 MYR for their time, and refreshments will be provided.

We would like to hear from doctors or medical students who have either:

• Recently revised for and/or attempted any part of the MRCP (UK) OR
• Recently revised for and/or attempted any part of the USMLE

If you fit the above criteria please email with the following information:

• Your name and contact number
• Which exam(s) you have already taken and which you are currently preparing for
• Whether you would prefer to attend a group in Penang or Kuala Lumpur
• Your availability between 15th and 17th January 2010

Please send an email to med.exams@googlemail.com and quote Medical Exam Revision – USMLE/MRCP. You will be contacted by a member of the market research team in due course to confirm whether your application has been successful.

Places are limited, so please do not delay in making contact if you are interested.

Many thanks

Warmest regards,
Zia Shah