Settling into Seremban

Its my 2nd day here so far...

1st day gotta report into IMu by 9am. thought it was early enough...then gotta open my ears, brighten my eyes to at least pretend to hear, if I'm not hearing at all to all the various briefings...what scared me most was the norm of doctors, including senior consultants and deans coming by 8am, latest! So we're told as student doctors now, should be in the wards before them...sigh...

so, 2nd day...orientation starts at 8am! walau...good practice...this whole week.

orientation so far has been informative. no ragging at all...which makes it less fun. but no regrets. The dean said orientation is bout orientating us tolife in sban...so i think, its fulfilling. I've heard so many briefings and talks that I have been getting tension headache every afternoon...what ta do? lifes not gonna get easier.

Been told life will be roughly like this: Get to the hospital and start ward work by 8am. Hang around there to learn till 12pm, officially. Then lunch break (which most of the time is reduced to 30mins) till 2pm. Then classes till bout 5pm. Then we're off. Seniors say need to go back to read up on cases, prepare for next day studies...not to mention the need to finish various topics for exam. Once a week maybe (or if interested more often), go for on-call at night. Hmmm...what have I got myself into?

All the stress of surviving through the day, not to mention the courtesy to please the dato's and lecturers, be nice to the hospital staff and make patients happy.

Plus: research project, a 1year thing and a 2year community & family case study.

Okok....somebody asked- How to survive? A graduated doc from IMU said that he had to constantly remind himself why he wanted to be a doctor...say that when the lecturers scold you..when the staff gets angry at you...and when you're just down.

So, my feeling? Looking forward to make myself busy. Anyway, clinical school is to prepare us for working life right? so, yup. think positively. Anyway, God is by my side, what shall I fear?