The Freudian Slip Of A Bacolodnon

For a doctor, whether in public health or in private practice, the major enemy is disease and for centuries, physicians and scientists would always struggle to find ways and means on how to fight and eliminate diseases, especially those which are fatal to man and even animals and plants on which men depend for food. For a clinician, the objective is how one individual would not get sick or proceed to a more complicated case. For a public health officer, the objective is how to ensure that a community of many would not get sick (outbreak). This will be the topic of my first lecture for the 3rd year medical students this second semester. Cl 02 principles in control and prevention of communicable diseases from Azmi Mohd Tamil 90110 pp tx_ch04 from Brian Witkov Like it? Share it. Get the Share on Facebook widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox ! Not seeing a widget? ( More info )Like it.

A few weeks ago, the NGO that I am working for was invited to provide resource speakers to discuss the Philippine Health Situation and how our NGO has attempted to address the current health challenges confronting the country. It was during the City-wide Health Summit annually organized and sponsored by the Tambal Society, a student-initiative of the medical students of the University of Saint La Salle in Bacolod City. The school would usually hold this summit and other activities during the annual Medicine Week which also coincides with the University Week (or currently known as Lasallian Week). There were three of us who represented the NGO. I was tasked to share the overview on the latest health statistics of the country. The summit was attended by municipal health officers of Negros Occidental, the Provincial Health Office, students of the University and other private individuals and organizations. More than just presenting the statistics, I attempted to present the lecture i...

I am currently staying up late tonight for at least two reasons: my parents are coming home later tonight and they needed me to open the gates for them and I am surfing the net for some lectures I will be sharing with my students in Family and Community Medicine tomorrow. Earlier this afternoon, I gave them a fictitious family profile which they have to study and analyze. The objective is, out of the given information, they have to identify the problems of the family, both medical and non-medical, prioritize these identified problems given the criteria provided, and make a family health plan for this fictitious family. The underlying objective here is to put into practice the lecture I gave them last semester, which was in fact my only lecture I was scheduled to give last semester, on situational analysis and community diagnosis. I wanted to start slow so instead of giving them a fictitious community to analyze, I gave them a family instead. It is much less complicated but at least it ...