Oath Ceremony

Oath Ceremony

It had been a long time since I have seen my friends at med school in their so good looking suits and dresses ! Last Thursday , we had our Oath ceremony held in Qasr Al Thaqafeh in Amman . First of all it was so unorganized ! The general impression you will make that it was arranged as a routine of med schools ! Allah ya3teehom el 3afyeh those who worked on arranging it , I know there always lots of work to arrange for such things , but no one would argue that it could come out in a much more better form !

The ceremony started with the national anthem , followed by Quran and a speach for Dr. Zuhair Abu Fares the head of the Doctors Syndicate , then repeating the Hippocratic Oath after one of our colleague Ahmad Hussni . Later on , a couple of doctors , employees , and students were honored , for sure I wasn't one of them ! Then there was a comedy sketch and another clip presenting some of our pictures in med school , some of our good and bad but mostly bad memories ! Then we had to go on stage to receive a memorial souvenir , which we realized after a while that everyone had got the worng one , so everyone started a journey to look for his !!! So , for the guys , the party ended early before even waiting the girls to get theirs !!! !!!!

Anyways , talking about myself , I was happy ! At the beginning I felt myself into duty , doing this just for my family , but later on during the ceremony I found myself enjoying the whole thing .

Tomorrow we will be officially graduating from JUST , everyone is invited :)

Graduation Prova

Graduation Prova

Today we had a prova for our graduation , that will be held on the 18th of June . At the beginning I was hesitating to attend , but later on last night I made my mind ! Despite the nice weather that was sunny with some shade of clouds and a cold breeze which was terrific , I didn't notice my sun burn till i got home .

Seeing everyone for the first time after being done with all exams and studying , and without having that feeling that keeps making you feel guilty for spending some time away from books , was worth living ! Taba3an , one of the things you don't want to happen in such occasions , a kissing cycle , because once started it keeps going on and on , having you kissing people you don't know , but what the hell ! Who cares know !

Our names were shouted out alphabetically , to stand into a line ...... The graduates parade started to flow into the stadium , and we were seated on our chairs ........ By the time we started to participate some ceremonies , I was surprised to know and for the first time that we had an university's anthem , impressive ! Then we were handled copies of Hippocratic Oath , so we all repeat after the dean ! Disappointing , I always had that fancy of reading it alone in front of a crowd while putting my hand on the Quran , somehow like how the ministers do it !! It crushed my soul :P

Anyways , my days at JUST started to get to an end , so way to go ........

Celebrate the Day

Celebrate the Day

Wow ! Is that true .... no no no seriously , are we done yet ?! * talking about the exams silly * I cant believe that our 6th year FINAL med school exams had come to an end ! It seemed that this could never happen , We have finished exams about a week ago , and if you were wondering why I waited till today to celebrate this memorable day , the reason after that , that I have been in coma and needed to be taken to the ICU and later on for rehab ............

My suffering started with the internal medicine end rotation exam , moving to the 4 written exams 1 exam/week ; surgery , pediatrics , obstetrics & gynecology , and internal medicine , and lastly to the oral exams .

I used to spend the whole week home , and on the day of exam when going out I used to close my eyes as if I have been in a cave for years and cant look into the sun !! I lived in a hell of tension and stress , so as my family , especially my mom , which I would really thank her for standing beside me and kept on pushing me forward , I would also apologize for her and for everyone I had been moody with him/her lately ........

You cant imagine what my friends and I have been through in the past month , it was a very tough period for us , lots of students couldn't continue their exams without oxygen supplementations , which forced the deanship to put accessory oxygen masks , that pops out from the keyboard in case of emergencies .
Some had to do their exams in the ICU , since they need frequent monitoring of their respiratory & heart rate , fearing a sudden cardio-pulmonary arrest , or any other condition requiring immediate interfere , especially after the surgery exam .
Others got dehydrated due to the excessive sweating and hyperventilation , and needed IV fluid .
Others had a much more advanced conditions where they were put on TPN ; " Total Parenteral Nutrition " because of either significant weight loss and inability to eat due to their anorexia or in order to save time .
Some other students were put on prophylactic warfarin , to prevent DVT " deep venous thrombosis " because of stasis and the long hours spent studying without moving . Others had developed pressure sores too .
Many others had peptic ulcer disease and stress gastritis due to stress , large amount of coffee intake , and smoking .
Lots of the students had developed episodes of Irritable bowel syndrome .
A large number were suffering of neck pain diagnosed lately with cervical spondylitis , explained by the excessive use of their cervical spine while reading !
Some were unable to stand because they had muscular atrophy in the lower limbs .
Some developed UTI " urinary tract infection " because they refused going to the bathroom to save time .
Others had experienced panic attacks & sleep disorders with nightmares about the exams , ASK ME !!! Once I woke up terrified because I didn’t know how to treat HYPERCHLOREMIA " high chloride concentration in the blood " !!!

Anyways , we are done now and thanks God for all of this , since you will never feel how sweet is water till you take a sip of coffee !