Sunday, August 24, 2008

More locals passing their Membership exams

Congratulations to Dr Ady Adillah (General Surgery) and Dr Helinie (ENT) for having passed their Membership exams from the Royal College of Surgeons, and to Dr Rosmonaliza (Internal Medicine) another fresh graduate from the Royal College of Physician (UK).

Well Done guys, this means there will be more SMOs in RIPAS... keep it coming! And ofcourse we hope to hear an invite for lunch soon ;-)

Dr Ady Adillah (MRCS)


Dr Helenie (MRCS)

Friday, August 15, 2008

The Bowling Doctors of Brunei!

Dr Aziman, Dr Azmi, Dr Athaai, Dr Natalie & Dr Norwani

Today Doctors Mess marks it's 4th Anniversary by bowling it's way through Charity!

45 bowlers comprising of 9 teams from various departments in RIPAS Hospital and Public Health took part in the Doctors Mess RIPAS Charity Bowling Tournament 2008 which took place at Utama Bowling at 2.30pm.

This Charity event raised BND $1,000 which will be donated towards the 'Tabung Kebajikan Pesakit RIPAS" di Kementerian Kesihatan and at hand to receive the donation on behalf of the charity fund was the Guest of Honour Dato Seri Laila Jasa Dr Md Arif b Abdullah receiving the mock cheque from Dr Azmi Mohammad on behalf of the Doctors Mess.

The tournament began with an opening throw from DSLJ Dr Md Arif who was also the team captain for 'Gutter Balls 1' representing Internal Medicine 1.

The Public Health team "Healthy Sihat" led by Dr Fakhri did not waste any balls and commanded superiority throughout the tournament dwarfing other teams with score of 684 - 710 - 658 and collected 31 strikes and a total score of 2052 to be crowned champion of the tournament.

Following at 2nd place was the team representing the Lab Services "Mighty BAMLS" led by Hjh Aishah collecting the score of 616 - 578 - 667 (21 strikes) and a total score of 1861. 3rd place went to the team representing the Department of Radiology "T.N.T - tarik nafas tahan" which scored 548 - 590 -581 (15 strikes) with a total of 1719.

Highest Score went to Hj Shamsul (Public Health) and Hjh Aishah (Lab Services) in their respective categories, each receiving 6 month free membership to Fitness Zone.

The most Stylo-Mylo player for the tournament was awarded to Dk Herny Sharnie (Radiology) for her stylish kick at the end of each throw, and to Pg Ya'akob (Admin) for his verbal & physical antiques.

Prizes were also given to the player with the lowest score (hehe..) and we're proud to say Dr Aammton secured that prize without any difficulty. Well done Aamton! Dr Norainun was disqualified from receiving the prize because she had to leave early... tsk tsk tsk...

Anyhow everyone appeared to have enjoyed the afternoon. There were lots of cheering.. shouting... jumping... and cupcakes (thanx Wadi!) Thank you to the sponsors for making it possible to organize such an event. And special thanks to our docs Dr Athaai & Dr Aziman for getting the sponsors. Dr Norwani & Dr Natalie for their lightening mathematical calculations of the scores and setting up the tournament. Dr Ayu & Dr Rizal for the prizes & deco & Dr Ady our treasurer. And to the rest of the Doctors Mess Committee... Thank you all and well done!

These are the final scores.



p.s. more pictures of the tournament will be posted once we get the pics from our un-0fficial photographers that were scattered everywhere.. tune in..

Monday, August 11, 2008

Bowl for charity


Hello everyone! It's time again for our annual sporting event. Last year during the pool tournament we saw Herry Zul triumphed over Dr Ang, Dr Amalinda beat Dr Dk Norzieda and our Minister demonstrated his skills to defeat DGMS in their respective categories.

This year we would like to see who amongst us health professionals are top kegglers! Personally I'm terrible at bowling... only averaging 180 or so hahaha.. I wish! However the idea of this event is just for us health professionals and other allied health professionals to get out from our stressful working environment and trash it out at the bowling alley... Kidding... just have some fun alright and at the same time do some charity work lah.

And of course since we are all very nice people.. and we like to help others (sincerely)... why not give some to the less fortunate aye. So we are also inviting kind individuals, groups, companies, anybody to donate money towards the 'Tabung Kebajikan Pesakit Hospital RIPAS' which was officiated by our honourable Minsiter not so long ago, to help boost their funds.

This will enable the Social Welfare Unit at RIPAS to channel the funds into buying essential household equipment, food, clothings & blankets, and alleviate some of the burder faced by our less than fortunate patients.

This year insyallah, we will see 2 teams from internal medicine, 1 team from surgery, 2 orthopaedics, radiology, lab services, administration, operating room & public health. There is still room for 2 more teams who ever is interested. Sponsors are always welcome!

See you guys at the alley!

For our MRCP Candidates..

EXCELPACES - MRCP PACES Course

A comprehensive 3 days intensive MRCP PACES Course called EXCELPACES is being organised by 12 Senior MRCP teachers from UK, Middle East and India. Date:- 5,6 and 7 October, 2008.

Venue:- KIMS, Hospital, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

The aim is to provide a low cost MRCP preparatory course for candidates preparing for PACES exam from outside the UK who needs training in examination technique and presentation skills. It is a known fact that the failure rate of non UK candidates in PACES is as high as 60 to 70 % because of inadequate preparation despite having good theory knowledge. This course will get you battle fit for the PACES exam by demonstrating around 60 cases and with Mock exams, all under the scrutiny and supervision of experienced PACES teachers. Only limited seats to maintain good teaching standards and seats are fast getting filled up by candidates from, Middle East, Malaysia and India.

Visit our website www.excelpaces.com or contact our program secretary Jessy Ajith by mailing to enquiries@excelpaces.com

All the best

Thank You


Dr Prasad Nair
Organising Committee Member, EXCELPACES


Disclaimer: We are not sure if Bruneian candidates will be sponsored for those 1st timers taking the preparatory course, best to double check with DGMS office first. However it's nice to know there are other options available if you've already done the traditional course.

Doctors Mess