It’s been three weeks since we kick started out forth and last semester in the Shunde campus. I think I’ve mentioned this before, that after the first two years of medical science training, we are to move campuses. Our final, clinical years will be based in the city campus.
Over the past year and half I’ve enjoyed living in Shunde, I particularly liked the slow paced life here and how our beautiful campus sits literally in the middle of nowhere. As I’ve spent my time here, learning basic medical science, somehow along the way I couldn’t help feel demotivated after a while. With the constant pile of theoretical workload we had to grasp with little to no clinical aspect, I eventually got bored.
Semester four has re-energized me with the topics we are currently looking at, I can’t begin to explain how excited I am that I actually enjoy learning ( which is new to me, by the way). This semester we’re taking Pathology, Patho-physiology, Medical Parasitology, Experimental Physiology, Med Psychology, Med Genetics and Immunology. My timetable is usually packed and I still struggle to wake up for my 8:30 am class. I enjoy independent study more, anyways. I like how the courses we are taking this semester have a strong emphasis of diseases and syndromes, everything we are learning relates to a clinical aspect which is fantastic and keeps me alert. We also have case study examples, which are a great way of relating and linking the medical science with practice of clinical medicine.
But what I’m just as equally excited about is how I’m taking better care of my well-being, by making sure that I eat healthy and allocating time to exercise. This is important to me that I keep a healthy balance, especially because I don’t want to ever go back to the space I was last semester.
Stethoscope & Hanzi 