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The Australia Indonesia Center (AIC) is spearheading bilateral cooperation between Australia and Indonesia within the nursing domain. Supported by the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (IA-CEPA), this collaboration aims to enhance the skills of Indonesian and Australian nurses. Indonesia's aspiration to emerge as a global medical tourism hub hinges on overcoming the challenge of limited access to specialized nursing expertise. By partnering with Katalis, AIC endeavors to address these challenges and identify avenues for enhancing nursing proficiency and facilitating mobility in line with IA-CEPA. Katalis Director Paul Bartlett expressed enthusiasm about collaborating with AIC to streamline health professional standards and healthcare accessibility across both nations, bolstered by the full backing of the Indonesian and Australian governments. Over the next six months, Katalis and AIC will delve into market disparities and requirements, assess the parity of nursing qualifications in each country, and foster dialogues among professional service entities. These efforts will culminate in a comprehensive repository of insights and analyses aimed at fostering closer alignment in nursing education between Australia and Indonesia, while also facilitating the mutual recognition of nursing standards and practices. #indvestime #batam #indonesia

The Australia Indonesia Center (AIC) is spearheading bilateral cooperation between Australia and Indonesia within the nursing domain. Supported by the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (IA-CEPA), this collaboration aims to enhance the skills of Indonesian and Australian nurses. Indonesia's aspiration to emerge as a global medical tourism hub hinges on overcoming the challenge of limited access to specialized nursing expertise. By partnering with Katalis, AIC endeavors to address these challenges and identify avenues for enhancing nursing proficiency and facilitating mobility in line with IA-CEPA. Katalis Director Paul Bartlett expressed enthusiasm about collaborating with AIC to streamline health professional standards and healthcare accessibility across both nations, bolstered by the full backing of the Indonesian and Australian governments. Over the next six months, Katalis and AIC will delve into market disparities and requirements, assess the parity of nursing qualifications in each country, and foster dialogues among professional service entities. These efforts will culminate in a comprehensive repository of insights and analyses aimed at fostering closer alignment in nursing education between Australia and Indonesia, while also facilitating the mutual recognition of nursing standards and practices. #indvestime #batam #indonesia

I'm now admitted to Sengkang General Hospital because of something flare up on my lower leg. Doctor said there is infection in my blood so I won't be able to drive until the infection is gone from my blood. While this is less than 24 hours of my hospital stay, I noticed there are empty beds and rooms at my floor. In today's bed crunch period, how could it be empty beds and rooms? I guessed it could be lack of healthcare professionals especially nurses, to serve in the industry. I'm also glad that there are efforts to improve the situation by training more nurses through local residents, fellow Malaysians and Philipinos but it takes time to train them. Those from locals and Malaysians are highly wanted because the ability to converse in more than just English. The ability of conversing in Mandarin, Tamil, and Malay in addition to Chinese dialects are added values. Please don't be angry with hospitals or Ministry of Health (Singapore) about the shortage of beds at this moment as I heard many have to stay at observation areas for a few days before getting a bed. They are making efforts to increase the number of healthcare professionals through many means, so that they could provide their services as new professionals or replacing those decided to leave the public healthcare industry. Perhaps those well known private Nurse training institutions should include the ability to speak Mandarin, Malay, one or more Asian languages such as Thai, Indonesia, Vietnamese, Hindi and perhaps Chinese dialects in the curriculum. That would help your students to find nursing jobs easily in Singapore at least in short and mid terms. Note: this is what I do when I have access to the ground. I will link all my observations with my findings to build better understandings. In the meantime, prep my body to win the war against bacteria infection. #singapore #healthcare

Hello everyone, please meet Mr Bones (骨先生). He is my new teaching assistant and we look forward to many years of good partnership together. It has been close to 10 years since I left bedside nursing to pursue my own vision of what health-care truly means outside of a hospital, a clinic or a nursing home. More than a year ago, I also uprooted myself from Singapore and planted myself in Chiangmai to discover a slower but more authentic way of living, working and connecting with people. Though I no longer work in a formal healthcare system, I am still a nurse at heart in all the work I do today with my clients, who come from different backgrounds in Singapore and various parts of Asia, including Thailand, Myanmar and China. My work is an eclectic mix of online and real-life teaching and coaching as well as fun projects like setting up a local community called Yangsheng Village (养生村) for people to learn about yangsheng, preventive healthcare rooted in traditional Chinese medicine, convalesce in an environment close to nature and most importantly, connect with like-minded people who want to heal and discover a new way of living. I strongly believe that good nursing is not only the delivery of care itself, but more importantly, the education of the general public regarding human health - starting from the most basics like your own anatomy. Just think about this. How can you care for yourself effectively when you don't even know your body parts and how your body functions? #fitwitheleanor #reflection #personaldevelopment #communityhealth

It is revealed that junior doctors undergoing specialist training, a.k.a. junior residents, in Indonesia, are required to spend IDR 40 million (approx. SGD 4K) a month to pay for their senior residents' expenses. Luckily, as a medical student, the residents only ordered me around to drive faraway from hospitals to buy their favorite foods. And luckily, I eventually went to Singapore for my post-graduate training and ended up spending a decade in Singapore public hospital system. Otherwise, I would have got into huge debts during my residency training, paying for all my seniors' living and travel expenses. In other parts of the world, doctors undergoing residency training get paid salaries. In Indonesia, not only do residents have to pay for "tuition fees", but their seniors also extort them for money! SGD 4K a month just to spend on their seniors! Poor thing! But, after that they also bully medical students, by making medical students pay for their meals! So, it's not so poor thing, after all! https://lnkd.in/gtH6bFcS

Hi IMGs! So yesterday, I mentioned that to stand out during clinical rotation, you want to: know your patient, provide solid presentation, and think like attending. There is a real problem in those 3 recommendations. The main problem is, you need to be able to extract information from the EMR. If you are Non-US IMG, chances are, you probably never work with an EMR before, and even if you did, it’s not going to be what it looks like in US (typically in the US we use EPIC or Cerner system). I found that this is the main struggle for Non-US IMG. (and it was my main struggle!) In addition, let's be honest, the above recommendations are easier said than done. These are skills, so it require practice for you to get to that level (hence, why some people even fail to get LoR during USCE) However, there are still ways for you to stand out during clinical rotation, without relying on the 3 things I mentioned above! These tips give you an instant win! 1.     Be punctual and generous with your time. This is the simplest thing yet still very powerful. Comes 15 min before, home 15 min later. You can even go home later if there are still things that you can do to help! 2.     Show intellectual curiosity during rounds. Here is what my attending taught me during residency: there is always a question to be asked in every patient (quoted from Dr. Arnold Berns). Which means, no matter how simple or straightforward a case is, there is always a question for every patient. You might think this is another case of stable angina, or another case of alcoholic pancreatitis, but believe me, there is always a question that you can ask, which means, there is always new things to learn, every single time, no matter how advanced you are! (even for me who has been attending for almost 4 years). So, find those questions, and ask, these showed intellectual curiosity 3.     Don’t forget to connect. People tends to forget this. They focused on: presentation, showing that you are knowledgeable, showing that you are dependable/reliable. Yes these are important, but connection is what makes you human. When you are doing rotation, make sure you provide time to connect with your colleagues. Have a casual conversation, get to know them, allow them to get to know you. I have more tips inside my USCE Essentials free guide. Get it in my website yuliusharyadi.com Good luck everyone!

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Life lessons from trying to bring patients back to life During my time as a doctor, I’ve done many many emergency resuscitations. Siang. Malam. Pagi. Petang. Anytime. Anyday. What have I learned from all those experience? 💊 Stay calm under stress Have to stay calm throughout the resuscitation so that can still think systematically what to do. Tak boleh kelam kabut. 💊 Know your role There are many people trying to save the patient. Doctors, nurses and paramedics. Everyone must know their roles and don’t interfere with the others. 💊 Listen to the leader The most senior doctor is the leader during the resuscitation. Listen to his instructions as he is the one making the assessments and the decisions. 💊 Know when to quit Even with our best effort, we cannot save everyone. So it’s important as well to know when to stop, that we have already done all we could. All those are valuable life lessons that I continue to use in my everyday life Stay calm under stress Know your role Listen to the leader Know when to quit Doktor Az 🩺 #morebetter #lifelessons p/s are you good at handling stress?

🗣️ We know Māori, Pacific and Asian patients are frequently mistreated in care. We have long had evidence of this. 🗣️ We know 'English-only' stances aren't ever that - they never critique European languages such as French or Spanish. 🗣️ We know medical professionals should have a high intellect. 🗣️ We know staff who use their language of medical training together miscommunicate less. --- So, what do we make of #WaikatoHospital being publicly shamed for its stance on Māori, Pacific and Asian languages today? Well, we get to place this all within a context of pure, anglo-ignorant stupidity - not of intellect, or logic, or good medical training. --- Those who treat patients based on the patient's language are a risk. Those who work based on the language of other staff they're not even talking to are a greater risk. And what does good risk management mean? Getting rid of it. Is Waikato brave enough?

This is a real tragedy for Malaysia. While Dr Dzul talks about retaining doctors in the public service, the breakdown numbers of the 54% that left the public service essentially left the medical profession in Malaysia: - Working abroad (lost foreever?) 45% - Left due to personal reasons (left medicine?) 28% - Work in public universities (6%), - Pursuing further studies (2.7%), and - Opening their own clinics (0.8%), - Did not state any reasons. 0.5% - Unaccounted 17% Firstly the loss of future medical specialists. If the government ever mentions again the shortage of specialists, I’d say, shut the “f” up. It’s self inflicted. Secondly, the loss of all the brain power that could have been utilised in other productive areas like engineering or technology. For the parents, it really is a waste of the financial sacrifice. Most parents sacrificed their retirement plans for their talented kids. My advice to parents on their kids’ career choices, “steer away from the medical field”. Unless the child is really passionate about being a doctor, don’t encourage them. It’s a waste of time and money. https://lnkd.in/gXBkdMhy