ROBE A ROYAL: Round 2 winner

Greetings kings and queens.

I see y'all are getting good at this Robe a royal game. I put up a picture of an annonymous for round 2 and within the space of an hour, we already had a winner. 

To answer the questions:

Annonymous is popularly called by a kitchen equipment that is in use every other day: Kettle

Annonymous is usually seen with "bestie!" Who is a member of the opposite sex: Nonso Ndulue

Annonymous recently made a life changing decision: she cut her hair.

To those that doubt the picture of annonymous that I put up, well, this is the sequence. Please watch and learn.

There you have it ladies et gents, it wasn't a picture of a rug. I guess we now know who annonymous is.

ANSWER: NGOZI CHUKWUDIFU

Our winner for round 2 is OLUWAYEMISI IKUMELO. Congratulations, your reward will be communicated to you in due time.

Look out for the next episode of Robe a royal, it promises to be tougher :).

ROBE A ROYAL: Round 2

Greetings Royals,

Robe a royal is back this week for round 2!!! In the right corner, we have our anonymous for the week; an intelligent and good looking royal. In the left corner, is you, yes you! struggling to figure out who the royal for this week could be. Let the games begin!

Our royal for this week is quite popular for the display of a full complement of teeth no matter the situation. Usually seen laughing with the people around. 

Anonymous Is popularly called by a kitchen equipment that is in use every other day.

Anonymous is usually seen with "bestie!" who is a member of the opposite sex.

Anonymous recently made a life changing decision that has left most members of Royals XV in awe. 

Anonymous dresses to suit the occasion (see what I did there?) Even if it's an event in Mars, best believe anonymous would turn up looking fab!

Here's a picture of anonymous in action doing what anonymous was born to do: shine teeth :D 

There you have it ladies et gents, start racking your brains. Round 2 ends in 5 days. Only the first correct answer in the comment section would be rewarded.

Goodluck! *dodges slippers and stones* 

ROBE A ROYAL: Round 1 winners

Greetings Royals,

Following our first round of #RobeARoyal, we got a number of answers. The answers came in almost immediately. Round 1 was easy right? Well the answers were correct. 

Answer: Adeleye-Ijalana Charles a.k.a McAustine

The winners are:

1. Babatunde Alli

2. Ameen Adeyemi

3. Adepero Ajayi 

Your prizes will be communicated to you this week, thank you for participating.

This week is another opportunity to be one of the winners ladies and gents. Look out for Round 2, it promises to be tougher. Be prepared!!!

ROBE A ROYAL: ROUND 1

Greetings Royals.  

Welcome to our "Robe a Royal series". This is Zubair and i'm your captain. 

Basically, this is some sort of "how well do you know your classmate thing" where we reel out less obvious qualities of a Royal and you're supposed to guess who it is for both fun and humble prizes (or nothing). To avoid problems with selection of featured royals, I have been vested with the power to select a Royal for today and you shall find out who it is (or read the answer in a follow up post because you're a terrible classmate and you don't know your friends well).

To start off is an interesting Royal. I've known him longer than i have known most of you so it's fairly logical that i choose him first. This man/woman is a true royal and you all are tasked with identifying him/her. I shall be a little nice and give them out by giving you hints as to who they might be.

 Hints:  

1. Common phrase/slang: "My brother"

2. Usual dress code; corporate always. Like Always 

 

3. Favorite royal seen with: All. He/She is very friendly but is more commonly seen with other students of the College and Olumide Emmanuel.  

3. Funny scenario: This royal is used to royalty. Back in 200 level, they walked up to the "Satan" at that time (Dr. Samuel) and whispered magical words that calmed her down. I for one thought that was the last we'd see of them but it turned out pretty much better than we envisaged.

4. Nickname: No. This will give them out. Instead, I shall inform you that Golden tigers are going extinct and we must do something about that.  

5. A picture of the said person: Here it is. Can you make them out? 

There we have it. Please continue to rack your heads and supply us with the "diagnosis" as i have pretty much given a very nice history as to who the royal might be. Courtesy of the YBC president, there shall be prizes no matter how small. So examine the facts carefully! 

This is Mr Uncle Zubair signing out. I hope you've enjoyed your trip. 

Arigatou.

P.S: Only Answers seen in the comment section of this post would be regarded as entries. Goodluck!

ROBE A ROYAL!

"Royals! When are we resuming?"

I'm guessing that's how we say 'hello' these days....

As we await our long-overdue 'enthronement', here's something to help us pass time from your dear Editorial Board. 

We call it - Robe A Royal!

A unique robe or regalia is symbolic of royalty anywhere. It is basically the first perception of royalty wherever they go. Likewise, as Kings and Queens, there are surely those attributes, characteristics or features that define our varying personalities. Each of us dones a unique 'robe' that tells us what to think of one another. Now, this is not only about how fabulous (or not so) we dress but about the different things that are unique to some of us.

For the next few weeks therefore, we will get weekly posts on this blog about a certain character in our Year Book Class. The post would share details about the individual in question and have us guess who we are referring to. It probably will be the perfect avenue to point out those funny, bizarre, interesting yet obvious features of some of us. Sounds like fun, right?

Before we begin, we will like to place a simple caveat. As much as we will be sharing positive attributes of our dear Kings and Queens, we may also have to share some not-so-positive or seemingly embarrassing ones. This is just in a bid to make it all the more fun! So when we talk about how large someone's boobs are or about that person with a pungent body odour (now someone's getting scared...it won't get that bad...lol), please do not take it to heart. We love you just the way you are. :) 

So join in as we #RobeARoyal. Your comments and participation would be very crucial; very key! You can also tweet @RoyalsXV using that hashtag. 

Ciao guys!

EDITORIAL TEAM

THE ELECTIVE EXPERIENCE: Groote Schuur Hospital

In CMUL, 5th year is what most people look forward to. This is because it is allegedly 'stress free' and it's also when we go on medical electives. 

What is a medical elective? To some it's just time to go to London and take pictures in the snow #NoShade, To some it's time taken off school to learn a trade. But according to Wikipedia, it is a placement undertaken as part of a medical degree. The content and setting of the placement are largely decided by the student undertaking it, hence the name. In basic terms, you get to spend a certain amount of time in another hospital, either at home or abroad and in a field of your choice. Just to see how things are done outside your home hospital. 

For me, it is One month of Emergency Medicine at Groote Schuur Hospital of the University of Capetown and another month of Surgery at Kenyatta National Hospital of the University of Nairobi. 

I just finished the first leg of my elective at Groote Schuur Hospital and I'm currently en route to Kenyatta. 

This elective for me was an eye opener. I learnt so much and I got to appreciate a system that actually works unlike what we have back home. I've always known that when it comes to healthcare, Nigeria is still in the cradle. But being compared to what I saw at Groote Schuur, healthcare and even medical education in Nigeria is not even a foetus yet. A morula is more like it. 

Apart from some instances of racial prejudice, I had helluva time. I did procedures that I wouldn't have dreamt of doing until I become a house officer. Basic things like Blood collection, Lumbar Puncture, Setting up I/V lines, Pleural taps, ECGs, ABGs and blood cultures which are considered house officer duties back home. 
I was actively involved in patient care, clerking and formulating management plans, Patient counselling and so on. Unlike where I come from where I'm practically just an observer watching the doctors talk over my head. 

I got to appreciate;
-The patient record system that allows you look up patient information even from another hospital in the province. No issues of misplaced case note or the records staff are on strike. 
-Laboratory system that allows you request investigations on a monitor and then view the results when they come back in. Blood results, X-rays, CT scans and all sorts. Results come back within a few hours depending on how booked the lab is. You can also look up previous investigations that were done in other hospitals. All this instead of having the house officer/patient's relatives chase results up and down like headless goats. 

Above is a CT Angiogram of an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (Triple A). You don't get to see one everyday. 

-Ambulance/paramedic services that seemed effective enough. 
-Intercom system which is just so basic and makes things easy. Instead of sending people up and down to deliver messages, just make a simple phone call.  
-Response to consults. When you request a consult from another specialist, they respond in less than an hour to review the patient but back home requesting a consult is like applying for visa.  Especially when it comes to the surgeons. 
-Health Insurance. There was no issue of you have to deposit before we treat you. Or we need to put up a line so we have to send the family to buy cannulas, drugs, I/V fluids before anything can be done.  'Everything' was in place. I never observed out of pocket spending. 
-A referral system that works. This means patients don't present at the tertiary hospital with headaches. There's a hierarchy of referral from GPs to general hospitals and then tertiary hospitals. 
-Tap water. This may seem petty but in our wards and clinics we sometimes have to employ the use of buckets of water. During this elective, I was washing my hands like every 5 seconds that you wouldn't believe we don't have running water where I come from. 

At one point I told my friend Kafa that The Resuscitation area of the Emergency Room looks just like our ICU back home. I wondered what their ICU looked like. 

While I was busy appreciating the opportunity and bountifulness in the hospital that is Groote Schuur, then came another elective student from Austria who was totally appalled by the system there. She sometimes went; "It's really difficult when you don't have all the right things to work with you know?" Just because she didn't find something inconsequential  like a basket to put her blood collection kit in. She also felt that she wasn't getting enough procedures to do. You see, one man's heaven is another's dustbin. 

With this, I'm wondering how our leaders manage to sleep at night after going abroad and seeing how their health systems  work and not even try to improve what we have. Instead our hospitals just get crippled-er and crippled-er; Plagued by incessant strikes and corruption. 

I just pray change comes to Nigeria soon enough and I'm more convinced now than ever that I want to be part of the change in the health sector. -Even though I'm lazy.

PS: Discussing the students and doctors will be a topic for another day. 

Also, to medical students: if you're ever looking to do an elective, I suggest you do it in Emergency Medicine/Trauma you get to see many diverse cases, learn how to manage them and get to do more procedures. 

Kemi Windapo