1st week of school

Hmm.... this is the 1st blog ever since I started my YR 2, Sem 1, Wk 1......
Things are getting on pretty fine....
btw, thanks jace for volunteering to be this year class rep!! ;-)

Hope this year will be a fine year..... the modules this sem looks interesting....
For Behaviour Science, I'm actually learning abnormal psychology, practitioner - patient relationship and behaviour and cognitive modification. These sounds interesting isn't it?
Studying topics relating to social sciences has always been my interest. Thus, hope to do well in this module.

Other then Behaviour Science, I have a counselling module which we will be taught some couselling skills. This is also one of my interest as well. Perhaps because I had counselled my friends and juniors before, I may have done a little well for my "role-play" the other day... lolz... Hmmm... well but I guess those I did in the past and what I am going to learn are alittle different. Counselling is to give them options and not advices. =)

Another interesting module will be components of occupational performance 1A. This has many parts to it. They are : Biomechnical and sensorimotor, creativity, intro to mental health and occupations as therapy.
These are very interesting, especially the lab lessons.... but sometimes not enough time to practise what has been taught during the practical sessions.
During Biomechnical and sensorimotor Lab lessons, we are suppose to locate and palpate muscles, etc on a living person. This is cool man.... as what we did last year in anatomy is "muscle man" and candavers.... but this time round.... the subject is a real human being... of course we have to try on a real human being.... who want to give treatment/therapy to a dead person anyway?


As for occupations as therapy, it was interesting.... we are learning ART as therapy.... and will be learning "caring and nuturing"
Looking forward to "caring and nurturing".....

Of course, not forgetting OTTP 2A.... where we had to do case study = PBL again.... lolz...

We were also taught mobility in Human occupations.
As for mobility, we were taught how to sit a person up from lying down aka pronation, with different level of assistance, to turn a person in bed, to shift a person up and down the bed.
I must admit that Hua Beng has very good mobility skills.... he has a very firm touch and you feel comfortable with him..... (hey... you guys don't anyhow think.... anyway if you all do not know who is Hua Beng, he is our lecturer. He showed us how to move/ shift patient and he did it to us, to let us feel how the patient should be feeling. If I were HB's pt, I will feel comfortable and have trust on him....) Guess we still have LOTS to improve if we want to have even 75% of HB's skills..

Not forgetting Dr Param with his and his neuroanatomy and neurophysiology.... hehe