Mr. Roderick Mera and Miss. Walesi Natuman, finally looking forward to graduating at the end of this year 2010, after six solid years of studying and pursuing their career as doctors at the Fiji School of Medicine, while Vanuatu is looking forward to receiving them in to the medical team. The two candidates has put in a lot of effort in their studies, and now finally graduating with their Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS).
With word from Miss Natuman, she said “The course that Mr. Mera and I are currently enrolled in is the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS); it is a 6 year undergrad course that for the two of us will be ending hopefully if God wills it this year on the 3rd of December. Unlike other medical schools we have a different approach to learning, the first 3 years is a PBL program or a problem base learning program which was introduced just a few years back; this consists of students going for tutorials, and lectures and slowly introducing us for clinics. PBL basically means that unlike having to take classes for Physiology, anatomy, pathology and having exams at the end of the day, we have a more scenario setting for example, a scenario may be child comes in with a cough, hence from there we learn the anatomy of the lungs, physiology of the lungs how it works oxygen exchange etc… and the different pathology or diseases that can cause a cough. By year 4 and 5 it is more of clinical work mainly based at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital (CWM) we are put into 9 rotations for 9 weeks which require an exam at the end of each rotation in or for you to move to the next rotations the rotations are; Psychiatry, Internal Medicine, Community Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Special topics and Surgery. At the end of year 5 we sit for Exits which is the main exam which allows you to exit from student life into Training Intern year, and hence year 6 is the TI year where 6 months is dedicated to Community Attachment where we are sent to various Sub-Divisional Hospitals to work and to carry out our Primary Health care projects the next 5 months are than spent at the Lautoka Hospital(west viti levu) where we are rotated again in 4 rotation each lasting 5 weeks the rotations being OBGYN, Internal Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics with no exams at the end however we are assessed overall and than if successful we are given the go ahead to graduate. Well that is a little about the course that we are undertaking it is a course that requires perseverance, dedication and open mindedness, however there is a lot of time for social activities whatever they may be. Hence my advice to all those currently enrolled, those thinking of getting into this cause continue to peruse and never give up work hard and study smart! The road is long but the journey is short.
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