2010-04-04

Medical education: Lifelong learning

We were advised to join the 11th Thai medical education congress, held at Chulalongkorn University on 27-29 March, and it had covered many interesting subjects from adding public health into med student curriculum, and how to teach that topics.

There were also workshop/ discussion about the making OSCE, however, one thing that we have agreed with and we have done is "Lifelong Learning". Since 2009 we have formed the group of teachers to three each to look after 10 upto 12 students in two week slot. We knew that we cannot let them know all the department of Anesthesiology would be, we hope that they can find their way out, since we have just shown them small windows of this busy department. The aim of preoperative evaluation and preparation is also an example of lifelong learning, because the patient who need anaesthetics can be anywhere in the hospital, we hope that our students have understood this goal and can apply our anaesthetist's way of thinking to the patient care process.

2010-03-28

Photo of the gang












These are photo taken from the Brussels trip that the ICU gang went, on the way we passes Flugaphen Frankfurt am Main, catched ICE to Koln, and stopped in Paris.

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, the Gang's all here


We, a small family and the gang of eight, had gone to Bruxelles to attend the 30th Annual Congress of International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. We gained some new knowledge about patient care such as fluid management, complications in abdominal patients, kidney injury, fluid responsiveness, sepsis and septic shock, and much more. I think approximate half of the invited speakers at the congress are actually anaesthetists which we are so proud. The new knowledge would be definitely beneficial to our patients and to our beloved medical students. Here is a sample of photo taken there which I have to credit to Max, the newest member of our gang.

More photo are to come, having problems with the wifi at home.

2010-03-21

Examination MCQ

Finally, the MCQ for our medical students for this academic year have been finalised, after spending a whole day just to create new 10 MCQ, beleive it or not. However, we would love to thank those who submit some new ideas for this year exam pool. Work hard again next year somewhere around happy new year.

2010-02-05

More photo of the past



Teaching Med Students in June 1992.



Learning climate of the case discussion in 1992, the old version style presentation.


Brachial plexus anaesthesia with the paraesthesia technique.


Yesterday once more

The fifth year medical students in their anaesthesia rotation back in the Year 1992.


Skilled lab teaching how to intubate the trachea at that time.





This photographs in this series was back in the year 2538 (1995), when I became one of the newest instructors in the department. It has resurrected to life again because we go back to teach the fifth year medical students again. Look at the way we taught them in a skill-lab for airway management and intravenous cathether placement. The red-rubber endotracheal tube is now the story of the past, so is the group discussion, because we are now let the students have their presentation about preoperative evaluation and preparation one by two assessors. While the brachial plexus anaesthesia was not required to teach to medical students any more, and we are now in the nerve stimulator and ultrasound guided block, so patient co-operation during brachial plexus anaesthesia to get paraesthesia has decreased its presence.

2010-01-23

The 2010 Academic Year

The academic year of 2010 will be the second year after the faculty board has revised the new curriculum for medical students. We are in the preparation process to welcome new medical students to experience their time in our department. The handbook for each student has already been prepared, the manual guide has just been revised, the rotation and teaching schedule has been settled, however, the examination has not yet been prepared.

We are in the process of making our own version of the manual of anaesthetics for medical students, hope that we can make it useful for the upcoming new students.