Thank God for a good preceptorship so far 
I’ve been going around the different wards and satellite pharmacies (A few wards share a mini-pharmacy where most drugs are kept. They’re called satellite pharmacies).
I don’t go around alone. We’ve been grouped up to do things together, so I’m together with xiao ling and jian wei. Thank God for an extra 2 brains to think of an answer whenever a preceptor asks us a question. And more hands, eyes and brains to look for answers in the Drug Information centre.
Ah, and something interesting…
During the last round of morning prayer meetings, I put down in my prayer book for God to help me improve my chinese and speak it fluently. So far, I’ve been conversing with xiao ling and jian wei in chinese most of the time. So far, so good! My spoken chinese is improving! Praise the Lord! Although I still don’t know all the medical terms in chinese, at least I’ve picked up some, like “painkillers”, “diarrhoea” etc. The hard part comes later… to learn everything needed in chinese..plus hokkein 
Hahaha…
Another thing I put down in my prayer book: “To get a hospital attachment that will be a good experience, to give a good perspective. A place with good people and a good preceptor. Preferably TTSH, NUH, SGH or KK”
(ok la back then I didn’t know SGH was so siong)
And guess what.. I got the first on my list, TTSH! Not only that, I’ve a really nice preceptor who doesn’t stress me out and who does things out of the way for us.
Each preceptor takes around 2 students under his/her responsibility. But we don’t follow our individual preceptors everyday. We follow the pharmacist in charge of the particular wards we’re supposed to visit.
So my preceptor brought us around for one of the days. She asked us to do a mini-assignment for her, like answer questions and stuff. Today, she went through the assignment we handed in to her. She “marked” it beforehand, AND she even went out of the way to write out the different classes of antibiotics, examples and some other information on a fresh A4 sheet of paper. This, to me, is rather impressive, cos I know how busy hospital pharmacists are. VERY. *Applause!*
Yep. Even though there’s an overload of information and things to be learnt, the satellite pharmacy segment is quite enjoyable so far. Thank God, my schedule starts and ends with satellite pharmacy. The “dreaded” part, out-patient pharmacy, is in the middle, together with in-patient pharmacy. That’ll be another time.
