HOPE, IS THE FIRST STEP ON THE ROAD TO DISAPPOINTMENT...
The Surgical Path...
In Malaysia, being a Surgeon is not easy, especially when you are a General Surgeon. You may be placed at a District Hospital, or a Large Subspecialized Tertiary Hospital. The calls are usually busy and there may be 2-3 of you only at one time. You may even do calls for few days straight. At times you are required a lot more than what was taught at the Masters level. In short, the duty and responsibility is demanding and overwhelming.
But this is not a page on the glory of a surgeon, this page is meant to guide you on becoming a General Surgeon.
It is 2013.
In many years past, my consultant told me that when he was offered to join Masters in Surgery, he was serving in a district hospital. He said he knew nothing about surgeru except of that taught to him during his undergraduate days. Many among his colleagues was asked to join, but a number refused.
He did not. So he was forged on an anvil of burning steel with a hammer that would break a weaker soul.
But that is a story of an age of past, no longer relevant now. The blacksmith that will pound you to shape have died a long time ago. The age of masters and apprentices have been deemed too archaic and obsolete.
With a surplus of medical officers from various medical schools nowadays, the competition is fierce. The program is demanding, and the training requires that we are already partly trained before entering.
This page is about that.
To equip yourselves with the right armor, gun and blade.
To ensure you do not come in only with a loin-cloth, only to be thrown to the dogs in failure after a few years of torment.
To make sure that you even stand a chance to come in at all, passing the selection gate and surviving the neck-to-neck fight, the bloodbath brawl of recruitment.
To win a war before it even starts...
The Surgical Path...
In Malaysia, being a Surgeon is not easy, especially when you are a General Surgeon. You may be placed at a District Hospital, or a Large Subspecialized Tertiary Hospital. The calls are usually busy and there may be 2-3 of you only at one time. You may even do calls for few days straight. At times you are required a lot more than what was taught at the Masters level. In short, the duty and responsibility is demanding and overwhelming.
But this is not a page on the glory of a surgeon, this page is meant to guide you on becoming a General Surgeon.
It is 2013.
In many years past, my consultant told me that when he was offered to join Masters in Surgery, he was serving in a district hospital. He said he knew nothing about surgeru except of that taught to him during his undergraduate days. Many among his colleagues was asked to join, but a number refused.
He did not. So he was forged on an anvil of burning steel with a hammer that would break a weaker soul.
But that is a story of an age of past, no longer relevant now. The blacksmith that will pound you to shape have died a long time ago. The age of masters and apprentices have been deemed too archaic and obsolete.
With a surplus of medical officers from various medical schools nowadays, the competition is fierce. The program is demanding, and the training requires that we are already partly trained before entering.
This page is about that.
To equip yourselves with the right armor, gun and blade.
To ensure you do not come in only with a loin-cloth, only to be thrown to the dogs in failure after a few years of torment.
To make sure that you even stand a chance to come in at all, passing the selection gate and surviving the neck-to-neck fight, the bloodbath brawl of recruitment.
To win a war before it even starts...
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