MUQD Mahidol University Quality Development

Today we are now working on SAR; Self Assessment Report Writing, we are now trying to answer and write down what we have done so far for the last academic year in order to submit the report to the Faculty and be prepared to have an internal educational audit which the auditors are from within the faculty, and the next step would be to prepare ourselves for the MUQD audit as well.

This year we have more knowledge about the Thailand Quality Award criteria which is based on 2011-2012 Education Criteria for Pefrormance Excellence and Baldrige Criteria. If you are interested in what we have been working since this morning, please go to the link below.

Academic Services @ MUQD

The MUQD main page is here.

In the meeting room where we are currently working on. We have just put down the results from our learners both the residents and medical students who just graduated from our department. The bad side in resident comments are mainly the decreasing trend in learner satisfaction, while in our medical student feedback is also the decreasing score by new MD graduates which we have already predicted that we hoped for, and we expected that we would remain in the bottom of the clinical department ranking for the next five years. It is understandable though, we have decreasing time for student rotation, and also the ones who should be entitled to mark the report should be the 6th year medical students who finished our department within one academic year, not 2 more years like the report performed by the faculty which is like we are defending ourselves.

Our FB Page!

Dear Medical Students or other readers who might be interested in anaesthetics, this blog is closely tied with the Facebook Page which is organised by our team.

In that FB page you can get some more photo taken in the past, however, this blog also has photo of the yesteryear! which was nearly 20 years old. You can get some short video clips about some clinical problems requiring your helpful hands, some problems in the preoperative period so that you need to do something in order to avoid mishaps that is Vigilance! You can also get some short status about the lecture we teach our medical students here.

Waiting for you to enjoy and let us know what you think about it, the link for that FB page is just right here by the end of this post.

Our Facebook Page

Another Video Clip from Medical Students

It was a funny happy and educational day we supposed, the learning climate was just right, although the medical students cannot achieve their best performances. However, that was the way of the education process, Learning from Failure, so that some steps would not ever happen again.

This short video clip was taken from the Debriefing video screen which we can enter the log of process the students did and then discussed how to make things better. Apologise for the quality of the video it belongs to my mobile.

Hope it is helpful and do enjoy the show.

Should Reach 3000 Hit Tonight ^___^

It took nearly 2 years to reach the readers of this blog for the first 1000 hits, then it took another two-month period for the second thousand hits.

I expect that by the end of the day here in Bangkok, There must be more than 3000 hits which is approximate a month time from the second thousand hit in August.

Keep on posting, keep on reading, however the thing we can improve this blog is how I can get some feedbacks from the readers, speak out something share your ideas so we can discuss on this blog.

Thank you for visiting this blog and hope you all enjoy the show.

More Photo from Simulation Teaching Room

From the CCTV camera we have two different angles so that we can earn the upper and middle photo which were quite close for the sequences happened at the scene.

In this last photo was in the nearly ended period of the session, we were talking about what went wrong and unnoticed by our students, and of course what they have learned which was the most important part of this learning method.

More photo of the same date of the scenerio or more in the past, turn to our Facebook page, ABC.

Simulation For 5th Year Medical Students

We teach our beloved medical students for a year now, and this is the most recent photo taken from our brand new CCTV inside the room.

Wait and Stay tuned, more photo to come from the recorded video.

Summative Evaluation : from Group 14/ 2555

At the end of two week rotation for the fifth year medical students to our Anesthesiology Department, we always ask them what we can improve to better serve them and any defects we can get rid of. Yesterday, Friday 14th Sept, 2555, we asked this 14th group about what they can get from our department with their two hands and anything they would suggest us.

They were mostly happy with the rotation that we really hope that they should feel that way. We cannot help them much about to become competent because the time would be definitely too short and the experience for each student would not be adequate for them to become an expert, they must keep on practising wherever the chance arrives. We teach them just the very first step, they need to find their own ways to practise more.

We are also happy that they knew more what we actually do each day in the operating theatre, one student mentioned about her understanding about the anaesthesia record, actually it is an essential document because the anaesthesia team would record the important event happened in the theatre, sometimes about the medications given in the OR so that the surgical team would make their appropriate decision about when the next dose would be.

Some students mentioned about their good time learning in the simulation means, we asked them whether or not it was worth trading their important working in the theatre to learning in the simulation lab, they all agreed that it was definitely worth doing so, because they were trading a hand skill learning with real patient to learning with the machine and most students aimed to learn about airway management skills with us. We have a hope that bigger departments would soon start their teaching with the Simulation means, a year has passed, we have not yet seen any move.

They told us that they understand more about preoperative evaluation and preparation, we hope that they can apply this principles to other rotations in their patient care.

Thank you so much for their comments, good luck and good bye.