Adawari Godswill Finebone

• Patient history taking, examination. and premedication. prior to. surgeries
• Ultrasound guided diagnostic. testing and regional anaesthesia blocks
• Intubation, general anaesthesia for surgeries. and post- operative patient care and pain management
• Blood transfusion and fluid. resuscitation techniques
• Participate in Intensive. Care Unit ward rounds, working closely with teams of consultant doctors and nurses
• Prescribing medication necessary for treatment
• Adhering. to ethical and clinical rules concerning patient confidentiality and records
• Ordering laboratory tests and imaging scans to complete further investigations.

• Interpreting CT scans and MRI results
• Practicing Lumbar puncture technique and analyzing results
• Performing basic neurological tests and. understanding patient rating scales
• Patient history-taking, seminar participation. and lectures organized by the institution

• 10weeks of in. hospital practice
• learning patient auscultation and palpation techniques
• blood draw techniques for laboratory diagnosis
• basic principles of blood transfusion
• understanding and performing ECG as well as interpretation of results

• Basic principles of fluid resuscitation in paediatric population
• Peripheral. venous. line cannulation
• Basic principles of paediatric Life support and resuscitation
• Drafting letters of Admission and discharge of patients
• Auscultation and palpitation. techniques in. paediatric population

• Over 65 hours of daily. in patient contact
• Engaging in basic surgical suture techniques and practice on mannequins
• Assisting with surgeries(thyroidectomy and. mastectomy)
• Post operative patient pain management
• Wound debridement. and. dressing
• Basic principles of sterilization.

• 150 hours of hospital practice with daily access to inpatient wards
• Understanding CTG procedures and evaluation of results
• Observation of deliveries (spontaneous and Caesarean) as well as patient examination and diagnostic techniques
• Assisting of deliveries and fetal. heart monitoring in utero

• 60 hours of hospital practice with daily in-patient contact
• Patient care, clerking and psychological evaluation tests
• Cognitive Behavioural training techniques
• Pharmacological approach to. patient treatment
• Mini mental states examinations and psychiatric evaluations

• Daily hands-on patient approach which involved morning rounds
• Using the DSM(with the help of a consultant. psychiatrist). to group patient disorders and help determine correct diagnosis.
• Comparing the effects of combination therapy while treating anxiety disorders and depression
• understanding how to use cognitive behavioral. therapy techniques to treat psychiatric disorders; as its long term. benefits. outweigh pharmacological treatment.

On the whole i did enjoy my time at this institution and got to appreciate the wholistic treatment. approach to psychiatric patients. The effects of drug withdrawal and importance of tapering down medication doses to reduce. drug dependency, I went on to. write a thesis dissertation on the. modern treatment options for depression.