The 7 tenants of positive self development

1.      1. Continue learning

We are constantly shaping and being shaped by the environment.  Learning exercises your mind, expands possibilities, allow you to contribute in new and more meaningful ways.  By lifetime learner, you will always feel refreshed and open to new possibilities. This is brought about through visualization, affirmations, meditation and by analyzing behavior and habits.

2.      2. Laser focus + persistence

Aim your target and don’t give up in any situations.

3.      3. Working a plan

Success lies in the execution on the plan. Planning and executing are two very different things. If it’s a worthy cause you’re pursing, be strong and carry on – the rewards on the other side or more than worth it! This require times and efforts. There must be motivation, desire, ambition, perseverance and dedication.

4.     4.. Sound mind follow sound body

Your though control your words, control your actions, controls your destiny. The best way to take care of your mind is through your body. A healthy body lends itself to a healthy and happy disposition and outlook on life. You need motivation, desire, ambition, perseverance and dedication. If you think you can, you can!

5.     5. Complete responsibility

Don’t blame others or the situation. You are the only key to your kingdom.

6.    6. Practicing the Pareto principle

The Pareto principle starts that 80% of the results come from 20% of the input. So focus on the 20% (few actions) that yield the best result and happiness.

7   7. Those who make it , made it

The world wouldn’t see all the hard work you put in, only magnificent end result. It is the act adding atones to build your castle until it is finished Masterpiece.

simple words but big inspirations

"brisk walking" untuk kesihatan

Sebagai pelajar perubatan, walaupun sememangnya kita nak meluangkan banyak masa yg ada utk belajar, sebenarnya kita boleh "curi-curi " masa utk bersukan. Ada antara kita yang suka kemas rumah, ada yang ada set gym di rumah, ada yang suka pergi bershopping dan ada yang suka pergi jalan2 makan angin hujung minggu di sungai Vltava. Mahu tak mahu, kita sendiri sebagai bakal Dr. perlu menjaga kesihatan badan sendiri.

Salah satu sukan yg kita boleh main "curi-curi" masa sewaktu hendak ke kelas adalah:

BRISK WALKING  atau jalan cepat.

Beberapa kelebihan daripada brisk walking adalah: (edited from http://health.sify.com/11-benefits-of-brisk-walking/)

Walk your way to a healthy heart

Walking can lower your cholesterol levels and decrease the risks for cardiovascular diseases. It can also strengthen your heart, muscles and lungs. 

Cuts your risk of hypertension and diabetes

According to a study, regular walking improves the BMI (body mass index) and blood pressure levels in people with diabetes. Allowing muscle movement leads to more use of glucose by the muscle cells. This also involves utilization of more insulin.

Protect against miscarriages

It can reduce fatigue and related pains, help lose weight easily, and lower risks of gestational diabetes for pregnant mom. Walking can also prevent spontaneous abortions by lowering down the hormonal fluctuations which cause uterine contractions.

Rejuvenate your mind and spirit

Walking benefits not just your body but also your mind. Brisk walking helps ease stress and anxiety, reduces depression and imparts a positive kick-start to your day. It improves your self-esteem, charges up the mood and helps to keep you energetic, positive and happy throughout the day.

Manage extra kilos

Proper exercise coupled with a nutritious diet can help to burn calories which would otherwise end up as fat. 

Improves brainpower

Walking stimulates the blood flow, and provides oxygen to the brain. This leads to improved functioning of the brain and better ability to recall. Reduces also risk of dementia and alzheimer in seniors.

Add years to your life

Exercising can add to longevity. Walking with peers can also cheer you up and motivate you.

Walk for better sexual health
 Walking two miles a day boosts blood circulation which cuts down on the risk of impotency.

Biar sedikit asalkan berterusan. Istiqamah beb! itu lagi penting.

Mari sama-sama jaga kesihatan. "Curi-curi" masa utk beraktiviti tak apa, jangan curi yg lain =D

Pesanan kepada semua bakal-bakal doktor berjaya.

Assalamualaikum wbt, selamat malam.

around the corner?which corner?what corner?

Assalamualaikum and dobry den !

student A : Whats with this post title?
student B : LOL.Dont you get it?Its just around the corner!
student A : ya WHAT?
student B : the exam period...
student A : oohh T__T


4th year student : Chill guys...i have exams like...every week?ha.ha.ha..


haaa...the winter exam is just around the corner...or am i the only one who's thinking this way,no?...well, obviously its not yet December @___@ hoho...nah, i dont think so...i'm pretty sure most of us already feels the so called 'exam aura'...huhu...


dont worry guys...start now and you'll be at much comfort later...so study and lets get ourselves prepared!
we can make it, insyaALLAH :)

 *picture credited to http://heartsquotes.tumblr.com/post/12448208554

love yourself !

Assalamualaikum and dobry den !

*picture credited to http://slitwristsandbrokenhearts.tumblr.com/

yup...love yourself.

today

tomorrow

everyday

if you are not the one who loves you most at first,

what makes you think other people will?

smile ^__^

My letter to my medical students

This message is brought to you by Self-Development Bureau

CzeMSA Praha

salam wbt and Hi everyone!!!

Busy preparing for finals?

Feel free to read this article posted by one of Malaysian doctors, who knows if it could give you some booster (^_^) aja aja fightinggg!!!

My letter to my medical students

To all of you my medical students,

You are very important. The future of many lives and families depend on what doctors do and SAY. I hope this realisation will uplift us with a sense of our remarkable place in the world as doctors.

And that is also why I keep on harping that Doctors MUST not be Wallpapers!

Please remember that Doctors had always stood at the forefront of change in society… those of you training under me MUST not only be skilful in diagnosis and management but also in social skills and leadership. It is your heritage that you cannot deny!

But the practise of Medicine is in trouble. Blatant commercialisation, rampant blood tests done without any doctors ordering or supervising, scans and probes of all kinds, are being conducted by laboratories and some doctors misguilded by wants rather than needs.

Hope lies in every one of us doctors, present and future, for the sensible management of patients; YOU remain the hope for untold numbers of patients in the future. Sadly some doctors see patients not as patients but as a disease that needs treatment which provides our source of income. This is nothing new, physicians like Osler had repeatedly cautioned againstnot forgetting the man behind the disease, and medicine as a calling rather than a business.

“The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish”.

~ Sir William Osler

Many doctors are unhappy with their work or simply too busy to talk, console or listen. Many just treat the disease and completely ignore the person who has it. We hear endless tales carried by patients of doctors who grunt instead of talk, who are capable only of monosylable conversation and who zip patients in and out of the consultation room with a speed that will make Superman jealous.

The reasons are complex. But one reason may simply be that some of us doctors have forgotten why we became doctors in the first place, and the wonder of caring for fellow humans. Some may be a bit burnt out. We had in our careers, seen and taken care of more pain and misery than most people. We saw prostitudes, drug addicts, criminals and the worst of humanity.

We also treated decent human beings, doting grandmothers and innocent children. No doubt, the demands on our skills and the medical-legal complexities that accompany our practise would have made even the greatest of our medical ancestors shudder. Yes, we deserve some rest from our weariness. But let’s not let go of the calling. Rather than try to correct the system which is basically dictated by our political masters, a system undeniably sick, we need to repair ourselves. Yes the system only makes it more painful. Regulations as thick as a medical text. Pharmacies selling controlled medicines like sweets. To change that will require one of us to be the next Prof Virchow, plunging head on into politics to make a difference. For the vast majority of us struggling on as individuals practising medicine, we hopefully don’t need much repairing; but to recall why we first fell in love with medicine, and why we wanted to become doctors.

In school we rose above the hoard, we were thecream de la cream. We obtained results the envy of most and we strove with pride to enter medical school. We sacrificed parties and dates to study for those results, we read volumes. In medical school we worked like ants on a long march. We reeked of formalin, we stared at slides till we saw mitochondria in our dreams and memorised volumes of facts

and figures. We did tough postings, survived the strictest professors, rounded in the pre-dawn drudgery of crowded wards, worked till hypoglycaemic on medicine rounds, performed every procedure required in the book, and passed our exams reasonably well. We stayed late, studied hard and looked at X-rays until our eyes turned red.

We finally graduated and became houseofficers. Yes, that year made the second world war look like a walk in the park but we survived. A few years later, we picked a specialty, from paediatrics to surgery, family medicine to cardiology, internal medicine to radiology, and shuffled off to more clinics, rounds grand or otherwise, work and studies. And MORE EXAMs.

During post grad training, we had exposed ourselves to the dangers of infectious disease, exhaustion, depression and violence. Operative instruments became flying daggers that we dodged in OT when the surgeon grew frustrated. I still recall with trepidation managing the very first patient admitted to our hospital with AIDS. We knew very little but feared a lot. As registrar, it was my duty to examine him. But again we survived. And learned. Now at almost every bedside teaching, I see patients with HIV. Fear can be turned to compassion. We drained fluid filled tuberculous chests, placed central venous lines, resuscitated the dying. We obtained consent for a thousand procedures, pronounced people dead, wrote enough case summaries to make ‘War and Peace’ look like short fiction and was almost ‘form-ed’ to death by the endless forms the admin would have us fill.

Our youthful enthusiasm and dedication well deserved the applause of our patients, when there was any. Weren’t we incredible then, if only because we came back to the wards night after night, day after day for emergencies, calls, rounds or simply a ’tissued’ drip. “Bengkak” the nurse will phone and we leave our dinner to struggle with chemo wrecked veins for IV access.

We as doctors must hold onto that commitment, that wonderful calling. Then we see another world – the realm of the business of medicine, where every disease is a “case” to be investigated.

A very senior Professor tells me she had seen doctors ordering investigations before even taking a history! Here is also the world of the grunting and monosylable doctor, the superman of 2 minute consultations and management. True, the superb rare genius of a diagnostitian may well have obtained all the data that he needed sub- 2 minutes, but the poor human called ‘the patient’ needed at least 6 minutes of compassionate conversation. (By the way, that is why your OSCE exam is 6 minutes long, or SHORT from your examinee viewpoint.. now you know how the patient will feel when the consultation is even shorter than this!). Recall that the only reason the woman in labour remembered us the attending medical student is because we held her hand while she screamed.

In the midst of all that we call Medicine, let us always remember the human behind the disease.

Let us recall that our work is a wonderful calling, a great gift. We are the descendents of Aescalapius, the inheriters of all that is noble in the Hippocratic oath. We may fail to change the ideas of many doctors however we may preach from some illusive high moral ground. But as individuals let us try not to lose our ideals.

Don’t let the system, colleagues or patients burn us out. Go for a holiday, trek lonely mountains, meditate, pray, sing, chant or simply relax. The sick is the reason for the practice of medicine, their care is why we became doctors! If we keep our mission clear, and our calling intact, we’ll care less about money and in all probability still make all that we need. By all means earn what is deservedly ours, but never forget the human who is paying. He is called the patient!

And in the process we can teach and inspire the next generation of doctors, ie you and all your friends. If we tell our students that the learning of medicine is through their apprenticeship to us their seniors, then we better be sure that we are good role models.

As medical students and future doctors, you all are the hope of the febrile, the breathless and the pregnant. And let us old froggies never forget the calling that we answered after decades of preparation from school to university to hospitals.

Do not let what you see in the misadventures of some doctors discourage you. Instead let them be teachers to you for you now know what you do NOT want to be like.

When a doctor have taken medicine to be a business or trade, he will ask what are his achievements — material success, cars, wealth, etc..

When a doctor has taken medicine to be a calling, he will ask what has he become — his character.

I hope we doctors can discern and reflect on what we have become in the practice of medicine, and teach all our young charges, delivering them safely through the long 5 years of protracted labour into a reasonably sane medical world.

Thank you

Your lo si,

Associate Professor Wong YO.

All the best for your exams friends!!!

Study smart and pray hard (^_^)

Regards,

Nur Hamimmi 

Self Development Bureau

FINAL EXAM IS HERE

Assalamualaikum  wbt, dan Salam  Sejahtera warga Prague.

Exam final bakal menjelang,  

Di saat-saat ini, kita memerlukan PERUBAHAN SIKAP YANG SANGAT-SANGAT POSITIF, hapuskan yang NEGATIF!!!

”...Sesungguhnya Allah tidak akan menubah keadaan sesuatu  kaum sebelum mereka mengubah keadaan diri mereka sendiri..” (13:11)

Wujudkan keyakinan diri yang kita mampu berubah dan yang penting sanggup berubah

”Keraguan adalah bunga kegagalan”

   

Tanamkan Prinsip: Tindakan Mengubati Kebimbangan

Let’s turn everthing into action!!

Orang Yang Berjaya Tidak Menunggu Kesempurnaan Untuk Bertindak.

(Mereka Percaya Kesempurnaan Itu Akan Terhasil Apabila  Mereka Bertindak)

Perlu berani bertindak dan bersedia menghadapii sebarang kemungkinan

                 Hadapi Setiap Masaalah Dengan Rasional

Never harm your self and others as well

Selalu ambil masa berfikir sebelum bertindak dalam menyelesaikan masalah

Jayakan Sesuatu Dengan Rancangan Dan Pelaksanaan

Mencontohi orang yang telah berjaya, take a shortcut! Rajin bertanya tips dan panduan

Harus berdisplin dalam melaksanakan perancangan. Hukum diri dan beri ganjaran kepada diri apabila telah gagal atau berjaya melaksanakan perancangan.

Berdoa Dan Berharap.

Mendekatkan diri pada yang memberi ketenangan dan kembali kepada kuasa yang tertinggi adalah kunci mendapat ketenangan dan kekuatan.

Sekian saja, terima kasih atas perhatian.

Jangan lupa untuk bantu rakan sekeliling, ada yang memerlukan bantuan anda, tapi malu untuk bertanya.

Ilmu yang dikongsi tak pernah berkurang, malah makin bertambah.

This March.......

Special from Self-Development Bureau CzeMSA Praha, In collaboration with CzeMSA Main..

Save the date, inshaAllah no regret!!!

(^_^) see you...

More Updates are coming!!!

yes you can

you feel give up finishing all the questions? having hard times to memorize what you have just read?

difficult to understand a theory in biophysic, though you have try your best to do it?

Feel hesitate to go for the exam tommorrow?

(help meee! i feel soo demotivated!!)

but wait! they have proven that they can do it, and so were you right?! 

and, and, and...

don't forget to pray a lot, ok?

because He will help us to ease our difficulties let's continue studying. ALL THE BEST EVERYONE!! you can doooo it!! thank you for your attention Sincerely from Self Development Burreau Praha 10/11

8 Bad Effects From Lack Of Sleep You May Forget

When you have a good sleep quality, then all the body activities and activities of everyday life will go smoothly. Conversely, if You have a poor sleep quality, a variety of negative effects appear.

Here’s 8 bad effects that can impact your body if you sleep less than 7-9 hours / day, and if you do not sleep soundly.

1. Increasing the desire to eat fatty Foods

Lack of sleep can eliminate the hormone that regulates appetite. As a result, the desire to eat high fat and carbohydrates will increase. You want to eat a high calorie intake. If during the 2 nights you are not sleep soundly, It can trigger excessive hunger. This condition occurs because the ghrelin hormone stimulates appetite enhancer, and lessen leptin hormone as appetite suppressant.

Over time, this can cause weight gain. In research done on identical twins by the University of Washington found that People that sleep 7-9 hours every night, the average body mass index was 24.8, almost 2 points lower than the average Body Mass Index (BMI) of those who lack of sleep.

increasing desire to eat fatty food

2. Weaken the body’s antibody

Based on the JAMA study, people who slept less than 7 hours per night could be 3 times more prone to feeling cold. Other research found that in men who sleep less will fail to maintain the immune response or a normal immune after receiving a flu shot. The people that get lack of sleep, antibodies that work after the vaccination only lasts a maximum of 10 days. This condition is very dangerous.

Therefore, improve the quality of sleep, to boost your immune system. If too little time to sleep your immune system could be disrupted.

weaken the body's antibody

3. Vulnerable to diabetes

Sugar is the fuel of every cell in the body. If the processing process disrupted, It can cause bad effects. In a study by the University of Chicago, It examined a number of people over 6 days. This condition can develop resistance to insulin, a hormone that helps transport glucose from the bloodstream into the cells.

The study found that sleeping less than 6 hours per night in 6 day can cause inapproriate process of sugar metabolism. The result can cause diabetes.

vulnerable to diabetes

4. Increasing stress

The study conducted by the University of Chicago also found that closing the eyes less than 7 hours could increase the production of cortisol or stress hormones. Even in the afternoon and evening can increase heart rate, blood pressure and blood glucose that can trigger the occurrence of hypertension, heart disease and diabetes type 2.

increasing stress

5. Triggering restless

Sense of restless every night would continue to people who have poor sleep quality. The reaction of the body can decreasing as well. More chronic again, happy feelings will not live up to people with lack of sleep. “Sleep and mood is regulated by the same chemicals in brain,” said Joyce Walsleben, PhD. This can increase the risk of developing depression, but perhaps only for those who are vulnerable to the disease.

triggering restless

6. Looks older

People with lack of sleep usually have pale skin and tired face. “Even worse, increased levels of cortisol that can slow the production of collagen which triggered the wrinkles more quickly,” said Jyotsna Sahni, MD, a sleep problem expert at Canyon Ranch, Tucson.

looks older

7. Various pain can arise

Not surprisingly, chronic pain such as back problems or arthritis can happen when you make a bad sleep activity. In a study from John Hopkins Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program, director Michael Smith, PhD, waking healthy young adults people for 20 minutes every hour for 8 hours for 3 consecutive days. The result, they have a lower pain tolerance, and easy to experience pain.

various pain can arise

8. Higher Cancer Risk

Exercise helps prevent cancer, but too little closing eyes can damage the protective effect. Johns Hopkins from Bloomberg School of Public Health study examined nearly 6,000 women for about a decade and found that sports fans who slept 7 hours or less per night have a greater chance of 50% have cancer than those who do exercise regularly and have good sleep quality .

Because the poor quality of sleep can cause hormonal and metabolic disturbances associated with cancer risk, and can ‘delete’ the benefits of exercise.

source: http://www.worldinterestingfacts.com/lifestyle/top-8-bad-effects-from-lack-of-sleep-you-may-forget.html

Biro Kerjaya Czemsa Praha 2010/2011