Day 7 - Tuesday 24th
September
The Mental Health Skills Training
Course continued for the second day at Hargeisa Group Hospital today. It is a
joy to see the participants develop and become more confident, as they try out
teaching techniques and move away from using only familiar techniques. Giving
and receiving feedback and constructive criticism is something the doctors are
not as comfortable with and so we spend some time practicing this. We visit the
mental ward in the hospital grounds, in order that the participants can explore
how they might lead a group of students if they were teaching in the clinical
setting. The doctors appear calm and confident on the ward and I remember back
to last year during their psychiatry course when many of them stated how scared
they were to go onto a mental ward. It illustrates their opinions and
attitudes have changed. I see a patient who was there in May when I last taught
on this ward. She is a young female with learning disabilities who now
unfortunately lives on the ward as her family cannot look after her. She is
happy to see us and spends much time watching the doctors carefully as they
answer questions asked about teaching.
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