For all of us who apply for medicine course under JPA and get offered, we are compulsory to attend Program Pendedahan Kerjaya Seorang Doktor in a hospital we chosen in the online application form. Well, i chose Hospital Kajang, which is located just behind my secondary school. It is a good opportunity for us to attend this program to know more about the real life of a doctor, which is not glamorous as most people would think it is. We also get the chance to walk around the various departments in hospital, where as a patient or a visitor does not have the chance to enter. Yup, i entered the RESTRICTED section. (haha)
We arrived there at 8 a.m. this morning and gathered in the meeting room in the hospital management office. There were only 8 of us. After an hour of waiting, we started the orientation by the head of emergency department, Dr. Rohaniah as the director of hospital was away to attend some medical course. She briefly introduced the hospital and mentioned a doctor's responsibilities. What gave us a surprise is the sudden arrive of a group of 40 JPA scholars which will be sent to study medicine course in Egypt soon. Hospital Kajang is very old, its 113 years old today. And still, it is the third busiest hospital in Selangor, behind Klang and Selayang. We also being informed that, to really expose the life of a doctor to us, we also get the chance to experience the "on-call" duty tomorrow!
After lunch and all had been settled, we were divided into groups of 6 people to visit the wards, labs and departments in the hospital. Our group first destination is to the paediatrics ward. The head of nurse in the ward act as our guide, she explained the routine of the doctors to us and led us around to see the place. There are isolation rooms which saperate the children with chickenpox, meascles and diarrhea. We then headed on to the specialist clinics of pediatrics, obstetrician & gynaecologist, cardiac and physiology. In the cardiology clinic, we saw the Echo scan machine and the image it produced when the doctor was examining the patients heart contractions. It is similar to ultrasound on pregnant women.
We were supposed to visit the forensic department and observe the post mortem examination today but it was postponed to tomorrow. It is closed today. So we continued our visit to the pathology lab. It is the most interesting visit today! Blood and urine specimens are sent here to be checked and it is also the blood bank of the hospital. There are many sub-departments in this lab. Microbiology lab where we can see agar plates (this is the first time i see it with my eyes! it jumps out from the text book!) Urine were examined in the urinalysis lab. There are also biochemistry lab and histopathology lab. We cannot enter the AFB lab as infectious disease, TB is diagnosed here.
Then, we visited the busiest pharmacy department where drugs are kept. The pharmacist pack the medicine and keep them systematically. They have their own little "factory" room that they produce the creams themselves.
Lastly, we entered A&E department with a nurse. It is divided into red, yellow and green zone. Red zone is for critical or severe injuries.
Thats all for today.
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