Three students of the Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, (ABUAD), have described their Clinical Posting experience at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, U.S.A, as fresh and inspiring....CONTINUE READING
Boluwatife Akinoso, Odafe Angela Okparanyote and Moyinoluwa Omoyajowo, all 600 Level medical students of ABUAD
, were the pioneer beneficiaries of the Tripartite Partnership Agreement between ABUAD, Little-by-Little Foundation and Johns Hopkins Hospital, for an Elective Clinical Posting of selected ABUAD Medical Students, signed on January 10, 2023.
Okparanyote said: “The rotation experience has been stunning and educative. I began my rotation in Endocrinology for my first week and the level of attention to details, the synchrony among everyone in the system and the quality of treatment given has been incredible. The environment is welcoming and friendly. Supervisors/Consultants are willing and ready to share as much knowledge as they can. The patients I’ve personally interacted with have been kind and open, willing to give information when asked and comfortable to be examined.
“My first week was really exciting and insightful, and I am hoping the following weeks in the other rotations will be of greater impact.”
Omoyajowo said: “For the first week, I was assigned to the Emergency Response (ER) Department where I accessed the hospital’s electronic system containing patients’ records and viewed their charts. This gave me a broader information about their previous admissions and their current medications.
“I was really intrigued by the speed of work in the hospital, and the laboratories were up to support in due time. I followed my attending doctor daily to understudy how she interacted with her patients. I observed that immediately patients arrived, the blood works were done and sent to the laboratory. The laboratory report was received within a few minutes to help in determining the exact mode of patient’s case management…”
Akinoso said: “One thing I have noticed at Johns Hopkins Medicine is the division of labor. Here, the patients have primary healthcare doctors before they are presented to the hospital. The Pulmonology Department where I am assigned consists of about three doctors, and each has a different role to play in caring for the patient. Once a patient is present at the hospital, blood is already taken as fast as possible and most of the laboratory results are ready in a few minutes and uploaded on the patient’s electronic medical record. History taking is more concise here because most of the information is already in the electronic medical records.
“I was also exposed to medical equipment, such as Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) device and the Sequential Compressive Device. The PET scan is utilised in the diagnosis of cancer to determine if it truly exists, and/or if there is metastasis. It has the added advantage of whole-body scan, therefore limiting multiple CT scans and reduces patient exposures to radiation…”
