UniSZA ISM Pengimejan Perubatan | Semester 1

Assalamualaikum! Feel like doing another post related to UniSZA Medical Imaging Course.

This one will specifically focus on the subjects of the very first semester. So shall we?

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University's Subjects

Kokurikulum

TITAS (Tamadun Islam & Tamadun Asia)

English for Communication I

Ilmu Wahyu dan Sains/Moral dan Etika

Oh okay uni subject ni wajib score ok because kalau tak score uni subject, sayanglah sebab honestly benda boleh belajar & score, ok? Generally je lah pasal uni subject ni like koku, make sure attendance cantik, and join aktiviti sebab kokurikulum nanti kena buat final project, like previously kitorang in Iqra' 3 kitorang gabung dengan Iqra' 1, 2 & 4 bukak booth masa pesta konvokesyen UniSZA, ada 4 hari so satu hari 1 class jaga booth tu so aktiviti adalah bergantung kepada AJK setiap kumpulan lah. Be sure to take part, jangan sign attendance and angkat kaki, have resposibilities, tak elok tau buat perangai irresponsible nak markah je kerja taknak buat. Kitorang juga ada test in Iqra' tu so baca lah sikit2 ilmu tajwid yang diajar tu ye. During my time notes tu were made available so yes boleh study. Untuk kokurikulum lain tak sure macam mana pemarkahannya tapi insyaAllah fasi korang akan bagi briefing just like our fasi did masa first session co-curricular class tu. Every subject akan ada cara pemarkahannya yang tersendiri. Koku tak sama macam TITAS, TITAS tak sama macam English. TITAS, during my time it was 60% carrymarks (continuous assessment & assignments) and 40% final exam (objective Qs only as of last year), same goes with Ilmu Wahyu dan Sains. Sorry untuk subjek Moral dan Etika I'm not sure. And untuk English pulak, be sure to score every tiny assessment sebab English takde paper final. During my time, English ni fully continuous assessment so score progress test, pay attention dalam class ok, be aware dengan tarikh2 test subjek english (:

Core/Course's Subjects

Human Anatomy & Physiology I

Patient Care in Radiography I

Imaging Technique I

Fundamental of Physics

We go one by one okay untuk core subjects.

Human Anatomy & Physiology I

Subjek anatomy & physiology ni best, I mean, one of my fav. Basically belajar pasal badan, cell and organelles (matriculation/foundation pun dah belajar), the systems, the organs, the muscles, the bones, all the weird names, anatomical planes, and physiology ni pulak, kita belajar macam mana each system tu function. Like positive and negative feedback mechanism e.g. when your blood glucose level rises, how will your body respond, and what happens, macam tu. As for me, anatomy ni memang kena hafal while physio, kena faham. Of course it depends on the individual, tapi macam tu lah. Untuk FSK, or maybe Medical Imaging je, biasanya pemarkahan is 40% continuous assessment and 60% is final exam. So CA penting, final p=un penting. Penting untuk score conass (test), tapi jangan pulak amik mudah dengan quiz sebab mana tau lecturer nak juga amik markah quiz tu? During my time, tutorials pun contribute untuk the 40% continuous assessment so yes, everything is important. Untuk taknak sakit kepala hujung semester, anatphysio ni silalah revise every week kalau taknak revise everyday pun. You know your own brain capability kan, so kalau yang genius takpelah nak study last minute pun tapi if all the anatomical and physiological terms sound so alien to your ears, better study awal (: Use the tutorials given untuk revise & enhance understanding and kalau tak faham, be sure to ask your friends or better, meet your lecturer and ask him/her.

Source | I legitly found the image above while writing this post and it comes from a set of questions yang I think kinda represents contoh soalan anatomy and physiology bab skeletal system o.O (checkout the link that I attached) 

PS: Anatomy and Physio during my time material dia agak banyak sebab Dr Anuar (my lecturer) ajar sangat detailed (he specialises in anatomy, that's why) so yes if you guys dapat him, study from early semester tau. He's a good lecturer, dia ajar memang faham provided you tak tidur in class lah eh haha (perli diri sendiri)

Patient Care in Radiography I

Patient care ni subjek yang agak ringan tetapi tidak boleh dipandang mudah. Walaupun ringan, akan banyak guna ilmu subjek ni di hospital kelak. Sama juga rasanya final marks are contributed by 40% continuous assessment and 60% from final exam. TAPI weightage ni mungkin bertukar tau depending on your lecturer (: What I wrote is based on during my time (Academic Year 2016/17). Sem 1 subjek ni okay ada belajar briefly pasal medicolegal, pasal wound dressing. Last year, subjek ni selalunya akan diajar oleh lecturers from medical imaging/FSK and also from nursing/FP and kalau yang under nursing, we belajar teori je takde praktikal sangat.

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Fundamental Physics

Kalau tak silap dan salah ingatan, Physics during first semester kita belajar benda yang makes up an x-ray machine, maybe bukan semua but mostly. So it was about rectifiers, capacitors, pasal energy, unit of radiation, pasal alternating & direct current, magnetism etc. Tak banyak kira2 sangat from what I can recall as of now but to understand the concept is very crucial. Masa sem 1, antara subjek paling aku rajin study is Physics kot, sebab suka and honestly lama dah tinggal Physics so rasa otak bengap semacam. Because of this, I also went to the library and pinjam buku Physics pasal electric/electronic yang bukan dekat rak radiography pun haha the book helped me honestly tapi sayang I can't recall what's the title, kena pergi usha kat library nanti bukak sem.

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Imaging Technique I

Okay honestly subjek ni direct je, tapi material dia BANYAK. Imaging Technique ni, as the name suggests, kita akan belajar how to position the patient tau, and banyak juga guna imagination, sebab kita kena bayangkan kalau, contoh, letak patient baring mengiring tapi lean towards ke hadapan, nanti dapat gambar tulang macam mana dan sebagainya dan projections yang akan dipelajari pun bukanlah sedikit. Like patella je ada a few. Patella tu tulang lutut, layman's term: kneecap, the biggest sesamoid bone in the body, yang terbonjol dekat kepala lutut tu ha, ha bende kecik je tapi nak x-ray dia tu, bukan ada 1 cara je, ha gitulah bayangan dia. Tapi best subjek ni once you dapat grab the concept, tapi cuak sikit la time OSPE (exam praktikal), haha. But practice makes perfect so during lab/praktikal, seize the chance untuk belajar and perform projection tu okay? Partner dengan member and learn from each other. Sumpah I actually bodoh subjek ni my friends helped me a lot especially Puteri. Study dengan member pun sangat membantu untuk subjek ni. Sebab most of the time kita akan ingat apa kawan kita duk membebel (again, from my experience).

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Untuk exam pulak, kena ingat la projection A apa kelebihan dia, tulang/structure apa paling senang nampak @ is more focused at, projection B kita boleh nampak apa. Contoh la eh, kena tau nak tengok acetabulum of femur, projection mana paling sesuai? Ha gitu. I rasa, kalau rajin, untuk this subject, you guys buat table, so that boleh differentiate each components untuk each projection and see everything clearly. I ada niat nak buat table, tapi niat tinggal niat je lah. Overall, I banyak study guna mindmaps including this subject tapi do what's best for you according your study style and what works best for you guys, okay? (:

Additional: Untuk buku pula, usually lecturers akan bagi book's suggestion (all subjects pun) so what I did was, search for the books at the library and borrow them. Yeah I'm a bit nerdy (I love reading), that's why haha.

Tu je kot. Other advices might be pay attention to the pecahan markah untuk all the test and final exams, jaga hati lecturer and buat assignment biarlah bersungguh haha okay till then, wassalam!