Pan Na

Hi, I’m Kalpana, and I’m from India. My internship in the 1^st Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University after coming back from Zhongshan starts on November 7^th, 2016 and my first Department was Internal Medicine, Respiratory Department, I’m a bit nervous on that day , but I met a lot of Chinese friends from 2012 batch and 8^th year program students and they really helped me a lot and very friendly. The professors, attending doctors, postgraduate Students were really good, not only in this department, but also in other departments such as Internal Medicine, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Neurology, etc. I got a lot of knowledge from the professors, attending Doctors, postgraduate students. But frankly speaking, I loved to be with the postgraduate students haha, they taught me a lot, learning together was fun too sometimes not all the time. Different Departments have different rules and regulations, different experience…Studying medicine is very much a marathon, not a sprint. It is a 5 or 6 years course, where in our final few years holidays become a lot shorter and we are studying almost all year round (instead of having three months off a year). Studying at university is a real contrast to being a student at school and one of the real challenges is organizing our work and activities. We can no longer rely on our parents to keep a calendar of everything that’s going on and instead we must sort things for ourselves.

Last but not the least, I thanked to all my teachers, who gives us a lot of knowledge about Clinical Medicine.

“The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.”

Long Live Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical Sciences!