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On the second week of holidays, I had international week, which was superimposed on a week long of OSCE practice (which was rather minimal thanks to procrastination and laziness, although I would like to think it took up most of my time) International week was a week's worth of activities and lectures organised by medical school, which featured talks by doctors who did attachments overseas in places like Nepal and Ecquador. They showed us beautiful pictures of the colossal snow-capped mountains in all their wonderous glory, simple rural people walking for hours just to seek medical treatment, and much more. It was really enticing to go for such attachments in the future, to travel and see the world whilst doing so.








Eugene's birthday was on Thursday, and we (the singaporeans) ate lunch at La Trottoria on Friday afternoon, and they served really good pasta! We ordered a dish that had salmon, caviar, and vodka, and tasted magnificent. We gave him a monopoly set, with an electronic banking device, so playing monopoly was as easy as swiping your credit card on the card reader! Hassle-free, cashless hours of fun, we're really getting high-tech now...

Tuesday was the OSCEs (objective structured clinical examinations), which basically was our clinical (physical) examination exam. It went quite smoothly, and I tried my best not to forget anything in the physical examinations, but there was this funny bit in the respiratory exam that went...

Me: "Upon depressing the patient's tongue, I see no signs of tonsilar enlargement or redness of the pharynx, which may be indicative of upper airways disease"

Patient:"I don't have tonsils"

~ examiner stares at me ~

*gulp*

Me: "Well, I didn't notice enlarged tonsils because it seems the patient doesn't have tonsils at all."

What a mess, it was really embarrassing in front of the examiner. I finished early, having skipped all the rest stations (by accident!), and so did Kudnarto, so had a nice -and rare- 5 minute chat with her :)

PBL started the next day, and school was back to normal.