Medical Officer Cadet Course for Licenced Doctors
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Originally posted by W0shi eeejun:
dude, please don't think you can be a doctor if you want. why not let me ask you, are you sure you can make it for the requirements? for NUS: As for A-Levels + (2 interviews+essay). Its so ridiculous when people think being a doctor is that easy, be it attaining the degree or after acquiring it. I must say its a joke if you think that you can be a doctor if you want.
like what most people replied say, you should start working hard for that place.
it is easy, many of my classmates are doctors. Even the sign on Major MO, result is not even half as good as me is a full-pledge doctor now. The fact the working life of MO is too tiring for such a lazy people like me so I will pass.
To be a MO, the results of the so many As is not important. My friend went in with A,B,B,C gp: A1, HC:A2, but he is a school swimmer. not sure if his parents are doctors. The interviewers are looking for the qualities for beng a doctor, that is to be "selfless and willing to give your life to serve others" Imagine you are a trainee doctor taking only 1.8k salary, and have to stay back overnight almost everyday 24 hours seven days in the hospitals. Practically you live in the hospitals and with patients.
My friend (a MO) is shocked when I complain my graduate starting pay is low. I rebuke and say that you want to be a MO is to serve the people not for the pay.
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Originally posted by Lokey:
doctor are just normal people. they make mistakes, sometimes wrong diagnosis, wrong drugs.
May be it is the medic fault that give the wrong drug.... must be medic
thats totally irrelevant. your point was that the saf mo's don't look if the patients have had drug allergies. being a medic, i have seen medics get fucked bad for leaving the drug allergy column blank. you probably just saw one black sheep out of the thousands of MOs. -
Originally posted by Lokey:
it is easy, many of my classmates are doctors. Even the sign on Major MO, result is not even half as good as me is a full-pledge doctor now. The fact the working life of MO is too tiring for such a lazy people like me so I will pass.
To be a MO, the results of the so many As is not important. My friend went in with A,B,B,C gp: A1, HC:A2, but he is a school swimmer. not sure if his parents are doctors. The interviewers are looking for the qualities for beng a doctor, that is to be "selfless and willing to give your life to serve others" Imagine you are a trainee doctor taking only 1.8k salary, and have to stay back overnight almost everyday 24 hours seven days in the hospitals. Practically you live in the hospitals and with patients.
My friend (a MO) is shocked when I complain my graduate starting pay is low. I rebuke and say that you want to be a MO is to serve the people not for the pay.
1. my year(2008) , 4 H2 A's was the cut off for an interview. 2. you say that many of your classmates are doctors. so what jc are you from? 3. it's full fledged, not full pledged. -
Originally posted by unclebutcher:
thats totally irrelevant. your point was that the saf mo's don't look if the patients have had drug allergies. being a medic, i have seen medics get fucked bad for leaving the drug allergy column blank. you probably just saw one black sheep out of the thousands of MOs.Actually many times, mo have forgot about my drug allergy problem, even my personal GP have forgot. I am allergy to NSAIDs, Panadol, Asprin and Chloramphenicol. They are very common drugs found on the shelves.
TJC... but that is like 10 years ago ...
I dont know if the system has changed but in my year, even you have all A perfect, you may not get it. You must have the something that they are looking for. My friend got perfect results but still did not get into medicine. -
Originally posted by unclebutcher:
1. my year(2008) , 4 H2 A's was the cut off for an interview. 2. you say that many of your classmates are doctors. so what jc are you from? 3. it's full fledged, not full pledged.So you are in NS now going to defer. Or you have already deferred and now in year 1 NUS medicine.
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We are getting OOT, but regarding thisdrug allergy thing, I understand old medic after too long in medical centre they forget about it but I just witness some just newly pass out medic did not even asked the patient about this allergy before they start dispensing drug? Just wonder what they teached in SMTI nowadays.
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Originally posted by tarutaru:
We are getting OOT, but regarding thisdrug allergy thing, I understand old medic after too long in medical centre they forget about it but I just witness some just newly pass out medic did not even asked the patient about this allergy before they start dispensing drug? Just wonder what they teached in SMTI nowadays.
I admit I also have given the wrong drug before (as a dispensary medic). So I also know that MO make same mistake. Lets keep these to ourselves.