How to survive clinical years

What it means to be in clinical years?

Disorientating experience

Off-campus immersion

Unfamiliar faces

Ambiguous protocols

Patients' idiosyncrasies

Lack of knowledge

Insufficient skills

Limited insight

Inappropriate expectations

Fear:
Medical errors
Complications

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Why must we deal with uncertainty?

To prevent us from feeling jaded

To reduce self-doubt

To avoid feeling bitter

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Top 10 mistakes made in clinical rotations

1. Arguing with patients

2. Reporting a "made-up" physical findings

3. Berating your teachers (seniors/ HO/ MO /Specialists)

4. Disrespecting the nurses

5. Dressing inappropriately

6. Documenting a positive important findings without alerting your supervisors or HOs

7. Showing up late

8. Performing procedures without authorisation

9. Forgetting you are in a hospital

10. Being a slacker

How to study in clinical years?

Begin with the end in mind

SWOT analysis

Keep a portfolio

Content of a portfolio

• Work samples/ assignments
• Journals
• Checklists
• Projects

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• Patients' encounters
• Photos
• Videos
• Self-assessments
• Reflections

How can we reflect?

3 simple steps

What have I done well? (that you will keep repeating in the future)

How can I improve?

What specific learning points (on the patient/case, topic) must I do?

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Well-being

Balanced healthy food

Exercise

Enough sleep

Socialize

Be faithful:
God
Parents
True cause

Thank you