Teaching the humanity of the people they call patients — Dr Ednin Hamzah | Malay Mail

12 April 2019

The exposure of medical undergraduates to palliative care is very limited compared to their training in areas such internal medicine and surgery. For some students in Malaysia, they would be lucky to have a day’s exposure in palliative care in the whole of their five-year education before they proudly receive their degrees in Medicine.

For those who are scheduled to spend a day shadowing our clinical team to visit patients at home, this often becomes a highly memorable event, as for most students, this may be the only opportunity to visit patients at home and appreciate their difficulty in coping with their illness.

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