Entry 2: School for Nerds? I doubt that!

I was one of the fortunate ones who was offered to study medicine in one of our local public university back in the year of 2011. In addition to that, I was exceptionally happy back then, as the university that offered me was my very first choice out of 8 choices.

 

Medicine has always been my first choice since young. I bet, the first question that comes in mind following that statement of mine, is none other than, why Medicine? 

Family influence is definitely a no-no, both of my older siblings are more of physics person than biology, hence engineering they have gone to. I myself, am not entirely a biology person, as I find the topics on Kingdom Plantae are sort of, erm, boring.. But in comparison with physics, I prefer biology though heh. Anyway, this is not really related why I chose medicine. 

I started Medicine with the intent of helping the others. Well, this is because, back then, without much exposure to the real world, I have always thought that, being a doctor is the only way to extend help to the others, as the nature of the work is to treat the sick, regardless of their skin colours nor social status. Besides, I could study well, plus can keep cool with bloody scenes, so, why not give myself a try in this field?

Oh ya, Watching medical dramas during secondary school years partly contributed to my interest in medicine too. Code Blue (picture above) was one of the medical dramas that I truly enjoyed.  The doctors portrayed in various dramas were always that cool, wearing their white gowns/ surgical gowns, running here and there saving people's lives. Plus, most of them were so smart, literally like having 1000terabytes of memory capacity. In real life though, having the capability to perform verbal diarrhea + real skills, for most people, take lots of practice. 

All in all, I am glad that I stick to my childhood dream, even though the future of young doctors is kind of bleak and not promising in Malaysia currently. 

Studying in medical school, does not equate to having books in hand 24/7. There were still time for us to venture into things that we like too, albeit less than students from other courses. I still have some time to spare on participating in extracurricular activites, watching my favorite kdramas, playing with polymer clays (this, mainly during holidays) etc. A few of my coursemates even had the time to earn some side incomes too by doing part times, and that was pretty impressive to me haha.

 

A little bonus of medical school that I went to was that, all of us get the opportunities to act lol. Well, of course, the theme of our role-plays were always medically related and were part of our curriculum. Most of the time, the role plays involved us portraying the situations in handling difficult patients/family members, and breaking bad news. Although most of us kind of dreaded by that, and some also found that to be unnecessary, yet, when we looked back, those role playing times were almost always the happiest times during medical schools aside from passing exams and graduating. Some of my coursemates have great talents in acting, as their actings could be really comedic and occasionally, moved our hearts.

Fridays had always been the most anticipated days of all (although not so much anymore when we had to do on calls during weekends especially in final year). We spent our time in destressing ourselves, like going for a nice dinner, movie or shopping, and sometimes, going back to the place we  called home! It's also the day I get to eat my all time favourite fries! (Cos the cafeterias in the hospital & hostel did not sell that T.T) 

That's all that I could think about at this moment haha. In short, medical school is just like any other schools in the university, there are times for us to take a break and enjoy too, albeit shorter than most of other courses.