The UHW Week

This week is the 22nd academic week of my Year 2 course. Just like the previous academic weeks that I had, it is quite typical in a sense that the duration of of lectures is still long, on average the 1st lecture will start at 9am and the last lecture will finish at 4pm. However, this week is rather 'atypical' compared to the usual days because I will spend 80% of the week in the Medical School which is in the University Hospital of Wales (UHW) - approx 30 mins walking distance fr my house - rather than the School of Biosciences which is just 5 min walk fr my house. It is a good opportunity for me to at least do some 'vigorous' exercise by having some brisk walk to n fro, despite the fact that the journey could be tiring after long lecture hours.

While waiting for the next lecture, i decided to come to the computer lab and to blog about some thoughts that i had during the lecture tat i had just b4 this. It was actually a lecture on abnormal growth of children followed by a clinical demonstration where a patient came to the lecture theatre and shared a lil bit info about her clinical conditions. Personally i think it is v good to have such an opportunity to see a real life example of the things that i learnt in the lecture because it helps to reinforce the learning. And to be honest, I really enjoyed most of clinical demonstrations that i attended b4.

If i dont remember wrongly, i think a lecturer once said that patients are also our 'lecturers' in the medical course. The medical students will always learn valuable information from them which cant be found in the textbooks. Indeed, i dun just learn about their clinical conditions but i am also highly motivated by their fighting spirit in dealing with their illnesses. And it is because of this i decided to be stronger whenever i encountered a prob in my life, trying to stay as optimistic as possible even everything just seem so wrong sometimes. There is always a silverlining behind the cloud, isnt it?

:)