I was randomly selected to be a subject in my seniors' Special Study Module (SSM) code FF-354-2009 in PPUKM. It's sort of an obligatory research conducted by students themselves, particularly the 4th year medical students facilitated by a supervisor. Since I'll be doing the same thing this year, I figured to give it a shot just to know the essentials for SSM and to be nice to my seniors. After all, I'm gonna need respondents too :D May Allah grant me with beautifully cooperative respondents afterwards :p
So the title was: The Importance of Self Awareness in Developing Reflective Skills Among Third Year UKM Medical Students. People often conduct research revolving scientific or medical studies like asthmatic patients and their quality of lives, the effect of medications and etc I bet you get the picture here. But this piece is unique to me. It is a mirror to picture myself to be better. Moreover, Prof. Har is the supervisor, more like a mother to us all. I get to join her small group discussion (SGD). She taught us how to come up with the 'correct' reflective writing, how to achieve deep reflection, how to look at the people without being biased - although you like this one person so much, you should see his/her weakness, no one is an angel nowadays so yeah, try to find Mr. Hyde in them. By knowing the weakness we could help the one we like to be better, right? If however you hate this girl/guy so much you can't even hear the name, you should not miss out their good sides.
We learned from the movie 'Wit' starring Emma Thompson (does Nanny McPhee ring a bell?). We listed out strength and weaknesses of 4 main characters in this story - Prof. Dr. Kelekian the senior researcher in Oncolgy, Prof. Dr Vivian Bearing the patient and a scholar in 17th century English literature, Dr Jason the registrar and Susie the sensible nurse. Beneficial. It's a good movie, go watch okay please~ :)
SGD here is the intervention for this study. A good intervention indeed. Alhamdulillah. I wanna share some tips on how to reflect based on one's reflective writing that I got from the SGD:
1. Did the writer address his/her emotions in the writing?
eg: "I feel sad because I forgot the investigations of Infective Endocarditis"
2. Did the writer challenge his/her assumptions and perspectives?
eg: "I flipped through my notes and managed to come up with a diagnosis, I dare myself to present the case to the specialist and I did!"
3. Did the writer propose strategies to improve his/her critical thinking skills?
4. Is the writer a deep reflector?
- deep means he/she fulfilled the above details.
That's about it. Simple isn't it?
I think these tips work best for my case write up - at the very end of it which is the reflective part. The one where students usually copy and paste (pragmatist spotted!!) from some clinical skills or ethics articles. Now I have a totally different view of reflective writing. It's a matter of knowing yourself in and out, your fear, and how to jump into another zone that seems dangerous to you. Of course fully equipped la, if you jump right away with nothing then bear in mind that you've been told what to do but you didn't do it and now you're doomed and you're on your own. Hehe. No lah, what friends are for right? I'm pretty sure they'll help you.
It is definitely a rebirth. I'm looking forward to write a reflection that truly represent my whole involvement in my future cases. Thank you dear seniors for the kind invitation, and of course thank you Prof Har for all the enlightenment. My reflective writing won't be a dry and dead piece anymore.
no. of patients: not there yet.. 2 more days and counting..
book of the moment: cuti buku sementara :D
So the title was: The Importance of Self Awareness in Developing Reflective Skills Among Third Year UKM Medical Students. People often conduct research revolving scientific or medical studies like asthmatic patients and their quality of lives, the effect of medications and etc I bet you get the picture here. But this piece is unique to me. It is a mirror to picture myself to be better. Moreover, Prof. Har is the supervisor, more like a mother to us all. I get to join her small group discussion (SGD). She taught us how to come up with the 'correct' reflective writing, how to achieve deep reflection, how to look at the people without being biased - although you like this one person so much, you should see his/her weakness, no one is an angel nowadays so yeah, try to find Mr. Hyde in them. By knowing the weakness we could help the one we like to be better, right? If however you hate this girl/guy so much you can't even hear the name, you should not miss out their good sides.
"..It is quite possible that something you dislike is good for you and that something you love is bad for you. Allah knows, and you do not" [Al-Baqarah: 216]
We learned from the movie 'Wit' starring Emma Thompson (does Nanny McPhee ring a bell?). We listed out strength and weaknesses of 4 main characters in this story - Prof. Dr. Kelekian the senior researcher in Oncolgy, Prof. Dr Vivian Bearing the patient and a scholar in 17th century English literature, Dr Jason the registrar and Susie the sensible nurse. Beneficial. It's a good movie, go watch okay please~ :)
SGD here is the intervention for this study. A good intervention indeed. Alhamdulillah. I wanna share some tips on how to reflect based on one's reflective writing that I got from the SGD:
1. Did the writer address his/her emotions in the writing?
eg: "I feel sad because I forgot the investigations of Infective Endocarditis"
2. Did the writer challenge his/her assumptions and perspectives?
eg: "I flipped through my notes and managed to come up with a diagnosis, I dare myself to present the case to the specialist and I did!"
3. Did the writer propose strategies to improve his/her critical thinking skills?
4. Is the writer a deep reflector?
- deep means he/she fulfilled the above details.
That's about it. Simple isn't it?
I think these tips work best for my case write up - at the very end of it which is the reflective part. The one where students usually copy and paste (pragmatist spotted!!) from some clinical skills or ethics articles. Now I have a totally different view of reflective writing. It's a matter of knowing yourself in and out, your fear, and how to jump into another zone that seems dangerous to you. Of course fully equipped la, if you jump right away with nothing then bear in mind that you've been told what to do but you didn't do it and now you're doomed and you're on your own. Hehe. No lah, what friends are for right? I'm pretty sure they'll help you.
It is definitely a rebirth. I'm looking forward to write a reflection that truly represent my whole involvement in my future cases. Thank you dear seniors for the kind invitation, and of course thank you Prof Har for all the enlightenment. My reflective writing won't be a dry and dead piece anymore.
no. of patients: not there yet.. 2 more days and counting..
book of the moment: cuti buku sementara :D
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