Vision Goes Pink For October Breast Cancer Awareness Month

         Vision Diagnostic Centre Tawau goes PINK in October in conjunction with October Breast Cancer Awareness month. As one of the leading diagnostic centres in Tawau Sabah, Vision supports the call for creating awareness among the people of Tawau. 

In collaboration with Kinabalu Pink Ribbon and Tawau General Hospital, Vision aims to introduce its services to the public in the process of fighting breast cancer by diagnosing and early detection. In order to materialize this, Vision collaborated with Kinabalu Pink Ribbon to encourage people around Tawau to join the awareness campaign known as the Tawau Pink Run (D’feeting Breast Cancer), organized by Kinabalu Pink Ribbon. 

Vision as well offered a special mammogram package for participants interested in breast cancer screening. The package will be valid for the whole month of October until the 18 November 2013. 

The event was held in Majlis Perbandaran Tawau (MPT), which started at around 4 pm with a short briefing and welcome speech by the President of Kinabalu Pink Ribbon, Madam Lucilla Pang. 

More than 800 people showed up in pink and some were even dressed to kill. A warming up session was carried out by a group of Zumba fitness instructors where most of the participants joined in. 

The run started at around 4.30 pm when they released the eager runners in pink to swarm the designated route.

    

      The event ended with lucky draws and main prizes give away. It was a successful event where the participants had a great time and enjoyed the activities while promoting awareness and early detection of breast cancer among the society. 

With this, Vision Tawau looks forward to more health awareness campaigns in the area to increase awareness and to educate the public on the importance of early detection and especially prevention.

Vision Diagnostic Centre Tawau, supports cancer awareness! 

By,
Jocelyn Mirasol

Sonographer

DHS (Diploma Health Science)

Pg DMU (Asia)

Exciting New Ultrasound Machines In Vision College

            In August 2013, Vision College became the proud owner of twelve brand new ultrasound machines: the SonoScape S11 Digital Trolley Color Doppler Ultrasound System. 

This state of the art diagnostic equipment is designed for utilization by professionally trained sonographers to evaluate various structures in the human body for various medical reasons, including the abdomen, breasts, testes, thyroid and musculoskeletal system. 

This device is also designed for obstetrics, gynecological and pediatric scanning, as well as neonatal and adult cardiac assessment and endocavity investigation.

The SonoScape S11 was specially optimized for experienced users and ultrasound trainees alike, and therefore a perfect fit for the Postgraduate Diploma of Medical Ultrasonography (Asia) students. 

With convenient patient file management, completely user definable presets, ergonomic keyboard and panel layouts, an optimized software platform and an interface capable of myriad diagnostic purposes and image adjustments, the S11 makes teaching of complex ultrasound techniques to beginners to the field a smooth and enjoyable experience. 

The aesthetic design of the apparatus also complements the modern yet modern   yet relaxing environment of a futuristic diagnostic facility and a 21^st century medical health science college.

             Patients referred by government polyclinic physicians can be assured of accurate and precise diagnoses of any pathologies they may be suffering from with the high grade pre- and post-processing algorithms installed in the SonoScape S11 system. 

The impressive contrast resolution and custom image optimization will ensure a high signal-to-noise ratio that enables students and tutors alike to detect any abnormalities present in their subject while performing an ultrasound scanning session. 

Best of all, included among the wide variety of probes that was purchased with the machines was a hockey stick linear transducer, which has a substantially superior spatial resolution in comparison with ordinary linear transducers, and vastly improves the efficacy of detecting minute musculoskeletal diseases.

             In conclusion, the addition of SonoScape S11 Digital Trolley Color Doppler Ultrasound System units to Vision College has opened a new chapter of learning in this institution and will lead our charges to unchartered frontiers in medical ultrasonography.

By Chris Lai Chiang Wei
Tutor 
Postgraduate DIploma of Medical Ultrasonography (Asia)

My Teaching Experience In Vision College

           Each academician can recount numerous highs and lows in their teaching career. Personally, I have encountered the same experience too. These were the days when my students sometimes seemed uninterested,too talkative or even worse; a blow up occurred and nothing got accomplished. Thankfully, the average combined with the positive days outshine my negative days. Through my almost 2 years of teaching and working in education line, I have learned so much about teaching and dealing with students.

         In this semester, I am teaching a few DMI subjects; Radiographic Pathology and Radiographic Procedures 1. I usually start a lesson by asking my students to translate a few related medical terms to layman words and I must say this really gets them all to be involved. Sometimes, I will offer my help and guidance to some students who are weak by giving extra lesson or tutorial. This has brought significant changes in their attitude and academic results. By doing this, I feel very rewarding.

Students' tutorials to be marked

Books to be read again and again

          For me, teaching is a daily challenging work. It is a very demanding profession and it is worth being committed to it. As an academician, we need to be responsible, hardworking, creative in teaching, self-controlled, organised and willing to share our knowledge with others. That is the reason why we need to increase our knowledge and update ourselves by reading extensively. With all the criteria needed, academician really need to be able to deliver their very best to the students. 

This is how my daily workstation looks like

Preparing the simplest slide as possible so that students can understand well

             To all academian in Vision College, I sincerely congratulate all of you because you are able to face all the daily challenges in carrying out the role as an educator.

By,
Elly Nadia
Lecturer DMI

Thankful For Being A Part Of Vision College

     Launching my career in Vision College after I graduated has been a memorable one. I am glad and feel thankful to be a part of this established academic institution. Without realizing, it has been two years since I worked here. I have gained experiences by handling day-to-day situations as a receptionist in Vision College. I have learnt ways to organise patients' appointments and ensure that the professional trainees have a smooth daily operation in the center.

         This career has helped me to further improve my interpersonal skills by meeting and helping the patients. The trainees and tutors are very helpful and give their full cooperation when I need help to handle the patients. Apart from that, I have gained exposure and an extensive knowledge in types of diseases through ultrasound scan. Vision diagnostic also offers 3D and 4D scan packages to pregnant women. 

      

        Not only that, I also have the opportunity to participate in Vision Diagnostic's roadshow in several states. From there, I have gained the experience to interview some of the prospective students. Besides that, Vision College always encourages the staff to participate in programmes such as Continuous Medical Education (CME). With God's will, I will give my best effort to give a good service in Vision College and Vision Diagnostic.

By,

Nor Zarina
Receptionist

Share The Knowledge, Share The Fun!!

        Why do you think people need to share? Sharing is actually the happiest thing we can do in our life. Sharing brings more knowledge and ideas to be exchanged. Nobody will improve much if they are reluctant to share. In fact, when we initiate to share, we will definitely get more and more feedback which may be beyond our knowledge and we might thought of having fun of it. 

         Being a lecturer is not an easy task. The time we had with the students is our precious moment to develop them into a better person. By sharing, without realising, we are not only delivering the knowledge to the students but also developing a good relationship with them. Let's have a very simple example, every one of us owns a box of cookies. In each box of cookies, there are different flavours. If we are kind enough to share our cookies with each other, then we get to taste a variety of flavours. It is not only limited to taste different flavours of the cookies but we are also sharing the happiness of sharing with others.

  Having dinner with the students

        The relationship between the lecturers and the students are not just restricted in class but also outside the class. Students can treat the lecturers as friends as long as they know their limit. Students may proposed their brilliant ideas and opinions to ensure the learning process goes smoothly. Lecturers can incorporate in-class activities to enhance the knowledge of the students and in a way, it can strengthen the relationship between the students and the lecturers.

Activities with the students

Last but not least, again, why do you think people need to share?

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Because sharing is a must to enjoy infinite joy and happiness in our life.

 

By,
Zulhamiza
Lecturer, DHS & FIS

Transformation of the Learning Resource Centre

The learning resource centre

        I have been working at Vision College since 2010. When I was in the secondary school, I always took the opportunity to be a librarian. To me, being a librarian means a lot to me. It is a profession that I am always proud of because there is nothing better than helping the students to find something that they really need, and seeing the relief and gratitude on their face once I've helped them find it. 

             When I first started working here, 'tranquillity' is the word that I can think of to describe the learning resource centre. However, the centre is now packed with students during breaks between classes. The basic library facilities such as ample spaces with tables and chairs for an enhanced reading pleasure, computers for the Internet-savvy students, lockers and a prayer room are to boost up the learning environment in the college.

         Every year, various changes are done to enhance the appearance of the centre.  This year alone, the centre has undergone a few major transformations by adding extra bookshelves to accommodate the increased volume of books, lockers to meet the needs of students and also a new prayer room in the centre. 

   New bookshelves in the centre

         The new student lounge has the same size as the library, with floor covered with thick carpet of a bright blue cloudless sky colour. It is equipped with a LED television and a comfortable couch.  The lounge is installed to serve the purpose of creating a space where students can come together to interact, gather and chill out. Apart from that, it also comes with a range of sports and recreational activities such as table tennis. Students are now looking forward to the official opening of the students lounge.

      The new student lounge

                                                  Ample spaces for students to chill out

I love this quote by Bathurst about his perception on what a library is.

 'The great untold truth of libraries is that people need them not because they're about study and solitude, but because they're about connection' 
 (Bella Bathurst; author&journalist)

 

By,
Masitah
Librarian

Vision College Advanced MSK Course For DMU Tutors

         I have been here in Vision Collge for almost 4 years inclusive for 1 year Postgraduate Diploma Medical Ultrasonography (Asia). I was offered a clinical tutor post in department of DMU. When I was a student there were only 4 tutors with 15 students (senior and junior) and approximately 6 patients per day. But now things have changed, students grew in numbers and so are the tutors, average 35 students and 7 clinical tutors.

        Early this year we have a new administrator/clinical tutor Geraldine Beirne hails from Australia. She has vast experience in sonography including Musculoskeletal (MSK), Obstetrics & Gynecology and Peadiatrics. She introduced MSK to Vision College whereby all sonography tutors were taught this subject and requested to sit for the examination. The college also offered hands on clinical on real patient. This is an extra knowledge and experience for the tutors. The scanning region for this MSK course particularly inclusive of the regions in the elbows, shoulders, knees and ankles. Luck has it, everybody has passed the written examination.

    

        Since this subject is something new, we have not get enough patients to practice on. This is the stepping stone for career development. At the moment we are using the usual linear probe which do not visualize details on joints. Somehow we do not have the highly techniques probe called 'hockey stick' probe to perform the scanning on fingers joints and ankles. This probe is the appropriate probe so the detailed and minute areas can be assessed. So hopefully Vision College can afford to get us one.  

                                                                                  

                    

By Siti Zata Ismah
Tutor

Postgraduate DIploma of Medical Ultrasonography (Asia)