Recap: IMAM Med School Mayhem

Assalamualaikum, 

   Alhamdulillah, IMAM Med School Mayhem has officially ended with the final event of the series, IMAM 5th Clinical Case Competition being held yesterday. Despite unable to conduct a workshop session as planned for this year, we were still able to organized two out of 3 events in total. Here we look back at both events occurring in March.

 1) IMAM Medical Quiz

 Date    : 1st March 2013

 Venue  : Cheyne Lect Theatre, RCSI 

This is truly a FUNtastic event, filled with laughter and knowledge packed quiz. Questions ranging from general knowledge to basic sciences and medically related cases gave participants a challenge to think and thus giving an educated answer. Four teams participated this year and each team consist of 1st year to 3rd year medical students. We introduced a new ruling this year called 'lifelines' and the options were 1) To use Google or 2) Phone a friend. Results ended up with a tie in both first place won by two female teams. 

                                         First place; pics are of VP of IMAM (in green) giving out the
                                         prize to representative for first place winners, team Infiru & Uswah

                                          Second place; pics are of IMAM President (in black jacket) giving out the prize
                                          to rep from team Fateh

                                          Third place; pics of IMAM Pres giving out the prize to rep from team IMAM 

                                          (no affiliation to IMAM Eire SC though)

~ feedback from contestant ~ 

Alhamdulillah, Thank you IMAM, we had so much fun tonight, inshaAllah will join again next year 

- N.A.I, 3rd year RCSI

2) IMAM 5th Clinical Case Competition (CCC)

Date     : 31st March 2013

Venue  : Malaysian Hall, Dublin 6 Ireland

This highly renowned event is in its’ 5th consecutive year since the introduction in 2009. Attraction for this years’ CCC was the judges’ prize category for best presenter which was an iPad mini and a personal engraved pocket watch (contributed by one of the judges - Mr Kama Muhammad) to be given away. Also for the first time in 2013, we opened registration to UK clinical year students but unfortunately none participated. Nonetheless, 10 contestants presented their cases with good standards and we believed we were able to achieve the objectives of this event. Results in the end didn't matter as all 10 contestants tried their very best. Lastly, we would like to thank Education Malaysia (EM) for being our sponsor and to all five judges for allocating their time and donations for this event. We hope to continue this event and truly appreciate feed backs from judges and audiences for improvement in the future. 

First place winner; pics are Dr Tze How Mok, Neurologist (in jacket) giving out 1st place certificate and cash prize to Sophia Waheida Ahmad, Final year TCD

Second place winner; pics are Dr Tidi Maharani Hassan, PhD student respiratory (in brown jacket) giving out 2nd place ceritificate and cash prize to Nur Izzah Zabidi, Final year TCD

 Third place winner; pics are Dr Tidi Maharani Hassan giving out 3rd place certificate and cash prize to Sh.Athirah Syed Adnan, 4th year RCSI

Best presenter; pics are Mr Kama Muhammad, Gen Surgeon (in red tie) giving out the iPad mini and a personal engraved watch to Muhammad Hafeez Ahmad Kamal Hayati, Final year RCSI (he smiled through out the day)

 Special award; IMAM President (in jacket) giving out token of appreciation to Nur Izzah Zabidi for being an active IMAM member (2 years Ex Committee '08/09, '09/10)

 Special award; IMAM President giving out token of appreciation to Wan Farah Athirah Wan Nasruddin, Final year UCD for being an active IMAM member (3 years Ex Committee, '08/09, '09/10, '10/11)

Pics are; all participants, with judges and IMAM 5th CCC committee members

Pics are panel of judges, (in order), Dr Arimin Mat, Anatomist, Dr Ruzaimi Ramza, ENT, Dr Tidi Maharani Hassan, PhD Student Respiratory, Dr Tze How Mok, Neurologist & Mr Kama Muhammad, Gen Surgeon (hidden) 

Pics are; all 8 participants (2 left early) with 3 remaining judges and IMAM Pres (in grey suit) and IMAM 5th CCC Project Manager (in blue jumper)

~ feedback from audience ~

watching these great doctors somehow inspired me to be like them.. - A.A, 2nd year RCSI

We hope the two events were beneficial to all who attended and InshaAllah will continue next year with improvements!! 

Let's IMAMing