2013-07-24

External Audit

The faculty has been under audit process since this morning, there has been a four-people committee working on this challenge. The vice dean for undergraduate education has been questioned a lot, however, as a team member, there is always a help available to answer some difficult questions from all preclinical and clinical department representatives.

In the afternoon session, the clinical departments including department of anesthesiology were interviewed in a big room. When I entered the room, the topic was about grade designment, how often, which method to judge the learners' score, how to announce the grade, etc.

We were also interviewed about log book, competencies in laboratory skills, hand skills, and they also asked about the 21st century skills how to improve it both in the students and also more important the teachers.

2013-07-01

Critical Care Conference in Thailand 4th, Just ended

The 4th CCCiT was organised in Dusit Thani Pattaya on Thursday 27th to Saturday 29th June, it was quite a success for the organising committe because the number of participants rose to double from 200 in the first year to more than 400 this year.

The new concept of Shock management was discussed and presented, some are
1. Early organ support such as CRRT not wait for Creatinine to more than 10 before initiation
2. "Less is More" concept not too much fluid volume because mortality can be higher in the loading patient group
3. Choice of catecholamines can determine the outcome Noradrenaline is better than dopamine
4. The vasopressin analogue should be given early but not a replacement to catecholamine
5.  New concept of massive blood transfusion in trauma