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School’s Starting!

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

I had my enrolment on the 16th of July. Met some of the lecturers and made friends to 2 new OT coursemates from Germany. They are also doing their degree conversion. I’m taking 5 modules this semester. 2 of them are core modules and the rest are electives.
Core modules:
• Critical Review in Occupational Therapy
• Occupational [...]

Using Podcasts for Learning? Why not?

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

The Chronicles of Higher Education
The Wired Campus. June 17, 2008
A Professor of Pediatrics Uses Podcasts to Enliven Bacteriology
Sarah E. Forgie, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Alberta, gives medical students song parodies and other offbeat study aids for her bacteriology class. Her favorite podcasts include “Sweet Tetani” (an infectious sendup of “Sweet Caroline”) [...]

I’m a Qualified OT!

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Results have been released. I’ve cleared the last semesters with Bs and B+s. Although the absence of any As is obvious, I am grateful that looking at a bigger picture, I have cleared the final semester of this hectic 3 years. Hectic yes, but I enjoyed the process with the company of my beautiful fellow [...]

The Finale

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Now, I can safely say that my academic years in NYP has ended. Today marks the last day of my final clinical placement in an acute hospital in Singapore. I was having bittersweet feelings as I felt quite sad to leave that wonderful place, but happy at the same time as it has ended. I guess it’s [...]

Student Conference 2008

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

19.01.2008
It was a day to mark the end of our Final Year Project journey. Well, maybe except for the report that is due next week. The Best Paper prize was the Falls group whose paper focused on the adapting the Australian Falls Prevention Programme into local context. For theirs, it has been piloted in a nursing home whereby [...]