UDM TO UniSZA

now officially universiti darul iman has changed its name to universiti sultan zainal abidin (UniSZA)......

KEM MERANG UniSZA

after a very hectic and stressful semester, we had our finals on 23th & 24th of may 2010....after the finals, we had a camp organized by the dean on 25th & 26th may 2010 at kem merang uniza in merang...the camping was really fun....many interesting activities was held there such as canoeing, jungle-trekking , water confidence and many more.....we also had meeting with the vice-cansellor at the night at the balai cerap udm to discuss about the future UNIZA hospital which will be under construction soon..all of us were given chance to give idea about how our new university hospital going to be...at the end camp was the prize giving ceremony for winners for the activities......

MEDICAL STUDENTS VISIT TO ELDERLY DAY CARE CENTER

on 6th may 2010, the medical students of UNIZA had a visit to elderly day care center in besut, terengganu..the aim for this visit is fulfill the criteria for our subject called personal and professional skill development (ppd) and to expose the medical students to the community in terenngganu at the beggining stage..many activities were carried out there among the students and elderly people there....all the student were asked to carry out the psychological dimentia test by interviewing the elderly people....this really helps the students to improve their soft skills in the process of becoming a future doctor...the students also did some perfomance to entertain the elderly people there....the elderly uncles and aunties were very well entertained by the perfomance..at the end of the programme we had photography session with the elderly people there....

Dinner FASKES

aft one year finally the faculty of medicine and health science had organized a dinner for all the student in the faculty.an award giving ceremony was held to celebrate the dean's list students of the year..at same time dinner was the farewell party for our seniors in UNIZA who have completed their diploma programme..wishing good luck to them..the opening of this dinner was done by the dean of this faculty Prof.Dr.Ahmad Zubaidi..congratulation for the FASKES member because they had done a great job in organizing such a wonderful dinnner for all the students in the faculty..the dinner was held on 10 APRIL 2010 at the Taman Tamadun Islam.

Birthday Party: February & March

Our target for this monthand last month are:

Nitthya

Bupha

Saufiq

Ricky

Not Prof Nordin, Its Mustaqim ok (No other picture, malas nak crop.. Its hard to get a proper picture of Mustaqim, if you know what I mean)

wong
(xda pic dialah dlm database aku ni)

This party was actually plan by some of the 1st batch students, not all of us really know. In fact, if this plan has gotten to me earlier i might be the 'mulut tempayan' and bust of all of the surprise.

Deceived by this group of people who had plan all of this *angelic and **devious plan, all of us went down at 9.00 a.m. We walk down to the cafe having our minds thinking that there 'll be a meeting of Persatuan Mahasiswa UDM. the meeting was just a cover.
*angelic? celebrating our friends' birhtday!
**devious? Why you'll soon know what I meant...

BUT SORRY MATES, its not a surprise after all, those food and drinks are to exposed for these curious eyes. I understand they must be tired and time is limited, we cannot expect that it will go well as planed. (Maybe la... betul ke?? Just a wild guess.) Some of these birthday girls and boys are too early and some are late. So Nitthya, Ricky, Wong knows. (Ala.. Spoilnya)

Waiting for the birthday girls and boys to arrive

Saufiq our Sports And Recreational Bureau are the last to arrive, talking to the phone or maybe 'talking' to the phone. hmmm... Takut diapa-apakan lah tu? Should he run or should he panicked? Fortunately for him Flight or fright response is not activated at all due to the fact that lots of food is served! (gurau je ye saufiq)
(tak besnya takdela B2 receptor activated for bronchodilation! Saja je nak kaitkan ngan phisio! anyway you brochodilation can be brought about by Salbutamol, short acting B2 angonist)

The party starts with a birthday song and blowing candles just like any birthday party. I could not imagine the party going any other way anyway.

Nitthya and his big brother, Mustaqim

Unrelated porsennels poses wih bithday cake

The 'perasmian' of the cake!
(bupha's hand if im not mistaken)

Then comes the time to eat!

Menu of the day:

Beverage:
Coke

Food:
Kerepok Lekor
Keropok Cheasels
Keropok Twisties

Dessert:
Birthday cake March
Birthday cake April

It doesn't sound nutritious isn't it?
A treat of fats, sugars and preservatives!

10 WAYS TO BE A GOOD MEDICAL SCHOOL STUDENTS..................

1. Be An Excellent Manager of Your Own Time

Medical school will overwhelm you. In the five years it will take you to get your MBBS OR MD, you will be presented with more information that you must master than you might have thought possible, even if you did attend a rigorous pre-med program. Accordingly, the first tip to being a good medical student is to develop time-management skills.


2. Be Friends With More Experienced Medical Students

Making connections early in your medical school career with students who have been around longer than you can be invaluable. You can learn from their mistakes instead of making them on your own.


3. Be Respectful of Your Own Health

During this overwhelming time, you will be taxing your physical and mental resources to stay on top of your studies. While it's important that you do well, of course, you must balance your quest for excellence with a commitment to maintaining your health.

4. Be Respectful of The Undertaking


Becoming a doctor is one of the most important things a person can do. Respect this undertaking, and understand that the other aspects of your life (anything non-med-school related) are going to have to take a back seat for a while. A long while.

5. Hit The Books Hard and Often


Get to love studying if you don't already. There's only one way to master the amount of information you need to when people's lives are in your hands, and that's to immerse yourself in it.

6.Play To Your Strengths, But Don't Be Limited To Them


Medical school is like any other kind of school in some ways -- it's a learning experience. Do engage in learning opportunities that will showcase your strengths, but also look for ways to grow, to build on areas where you might not be as strong.

7. Choose Your Specialization AS SOON AS POSSIBLE


The earlier you can decide about which area of medicine you'd like to practice, the earlier you can become an expert in this area.

8. Find Mentors In Your Field Of Choice


Before you decide on a specialization, talk to the experienced students you know about what they think. Talk to doctors currently practicing in the field that appeals to you. Talk to your instructors. Make professional connections with people who are already doing the kinds of things you want to be doing after you're out of school.

9. Write As Much As You Can


Medical school may be too early to think about publishing your work, but if you are looking for prestige in your field, plan on publishing in the future. The best way to get publication worthy is to write what you can, perhaps by helping already publishing doctors prepare articles.

10. Take The Occasional Break

good luck all my friend....hopefully we will reach safely the final destination after 5 years of journey in this medical school.......

by, nitthiya
publicity and external affairs exco..........

How sleep loss threatens your health

Many people don’t realize that lack of sufficient sleep can trigger mild to potentially life-threatening consequences, from weight gain to a heart attack. Hopefully all udm medical students will learn something from this and practice good sleeping routine after this......
there are many negative consequences if you guys didnt get enough sleep.....

Viral infections

Anecdotal evidence supports the notion that when you’re tired and run-down, you’re more likely to get sick. A 2009 study in Archives of Internal Medicine offers some proof. Researchers tracked the sleep habits of 153 men and women for two weeks, then quarantined them for five days and exposed them to cold viruses. People who slept an average of less than seven hours per night were three times as likely to get sick as those who averaged at least eight hours.


Weight gain

Not getting enough sleep makes you more likely to gain weight, according to a 2008 review article in the journal Obesity that analyzed findings from 36 different studies of sleep duration and body weight.
The link appears to be especially strong among children. Lack of sufficient sleep tends to disrupt hormones that control hunger and appetite, and the resulting daytime fatigue often discourages you from exercising. Excess weight, in turn, increases the risk of a number of health problems—including some of those listed in the following paragraphs.


Diabetes

A 2009 report in Diabetes Care found a sharp increase in the risk of type 2 diabetes in people with persistent insomnia. People who had insomnia for a year or longer and who slept less than five hours per night had a threefold higher risk of type 2 diabetes compared with those who had no sleep complaints and who slept six or more hours nightly. As with overweight and obesity (which are also closely linked to type 2 diabetes), the underlying cause is thought to involve a disruption of the body’s normal hormonal regulation resulting from insufficient sleep.


High blood pressure


Researchers involved in the diabetes study also evaluated risk of high blood pressure among the same group of people, which included more than 1,700 randomly chosen men and women from rural Pennsylvania.
As described in a 2009 article in the journal Sleep, the researchers found the risk of high blood pressure was three-and-a-half times greater among insomniacs who routinely slept less than six hours per night compared with normal sleepers who slept six or more hours nightly.


Heart disease


A number of studies have linked short-term sleep deprivation with several well-known risk factors for heart disease, including higher cholesterol levels, higher triglyceride levels, and higher blood pressure.
One such report, published in a 2009 issue of Sleep, included more than 98,000 Japanese men and women ages 40 to 79 who were followed for just over 14 years. Compared with women who snoozed for seven hours, women who got no more than four hours of shut-eye were twice as likely to die from heart disease, the researchers found.
One common cause of poor sleep, sleep apnea—a life-threatening condition in which breathing stops or becomes shallower hundreds of times each night—also raises heart disease risk. In the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort study, people with severe sleep apnea were three times more likely to die of heart disease during 18 years of follow-up than those without apnea. When researchers excluded those who used a breathing machine (a common apnea treatment), the risk jumped to more than five times higher. Apnea spells can trigger arrhythmias (irregular heartbeats), and the condition also increases the risk of stroke and heart failure.

Mental illness


A study of about 1,000 adults ages 21 to 30 found that, compared with normal sleepers, those who reported a history of insomnia during an interview were four times as likely to develop major depression by the time of a second interview three years later. And two studies in young people—one involving 300 pairs of young twins, and another including about 1,000 teenagers—found that sleep problems developed before a diagnosis of major depression and (to a lesser extent) anxiety. Sleep problems in the teenagers preceded depression 69% of the time and anxiety disorders 27% of the time.


Mortality


In the Japanese heart disease study described above, short sleepers of both genders had a 1.3-fold increase in mortality compared with those who got sufficient sleep. Severe sleep apnea raises the risk of dying early by 46%, according to a 2009 study of 6,400 men and women whom researchers followed for an average of eight years. Although only about 8% of the men in the study had severe apnea, those who did and who were between 40 and 70 years of age were twice as likely to die from any cause as healthy men in the same age group.
Clearly, getting enough sleep is just as important as other vital elements of good health, such as eating a healthy diet, getting regular exercise, and practicing good dental hygiene. In short, sleep is not a luxury but a basic component of a healthy lifestyle.

so the moral of the story to all mbbs udm students get enough sleep..dont stress urself too much.....stress-free and enjoy ur life as much as guys can......



adapted from: http://www.health.havard.edu/

by, nithya
publicity and external affairs exco......