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Latest Young ACMA Reports

September 2010

YACMA Surgical Skills Workshop

This years Surgical Skills Workshop (7th August) was a great success with about 30 pre-clinical students who came for our event at Middlemore Hospital!

Meant for pre-clinical students who are disillusioned with their textbooks and dry biomedical knowledge, we hope to give them a foretaste of what clinical medicine and on-the-job skills as a clinician is about!

This year we had 4 clinical students who oversaw the whole workshop; Vitt Hemstapat (Suturing Station), Hayley Hu (Coordinator), Norman Quek (Cannulation), and Choonwei Wee (Plastering). It was a great place for them to practice the skills they obtained from their clinical runs as well as the opportunity to show it to their juniors.

As for the juniors, they were very enthusiastic to learn and had a great time in all three stations; plastering, suturing and IV cannulation. I must say that they did very well for first-timers, suturing through pork foot (which can be quite challenging, compared to the more well ‘endowed’ pork belly). The plastering station was messy but fun with plasters splattered all over the place and playing with the electric cast drill! The IV cannula station was great as well, as we poke through fake hand trying to get our needle in. Luckily no real arm was hurt in the process.

Indeed it is one of the post popular events organized by YACMA and it is indeed a great day for all. Hope that next year’s committee will continue this great tradition.

YACMA Careers Evening

The YACMA Careers Evening was held on Wednesday 28th of July at Grafton campus with the mingling of students over sushi, pizza and juice provided by YACMA to start off the evening. Speakers ranged from GP (Dr Daniel Wu), general surgery (Dr Don Lee), plastic surgery (Dr Simon Chong), orthopaedics (Dr Godwin Choy), anaesthetics (Dr Michael Tan Dr and Dr Colin King) and a house officer from overseas. There was an excellent turnout, making the event worthwhile for both YACMA and the speakers who were kind enough to give up their time to share their knowledge and wisdom. The students without a doubt gained a huge amount in their understanding of each specialty; overall it was a most successful YACMA event.

YACMA Executive

September 2010

The YACMA committee is busy behind the scenes working hard to bring you bigger and better events this year. Events to look forward to: ACMA AGM (talks and dinner), YACMA AGM (voting and dinner), ACMA CME dinner and the Karaoke night!

YACMA Committee

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