Sorry for the lack of blog posts by the authors, we're simply too busy with our own schedule.
I've just went back from our CFCS masuk kampung programme, too much thing to be done, too little time left.
The programme was cool, it started from our second year into our third year (medic and dental only). We get to know nice people, learn how to work together, polish our soft skills, etc. Despite had to walk under the hot sun, we did gain a lot from it, including, weight..lol~
The residents in the kampung was so friendly and kind, although some of them did thought that we were there to sell stuff, and some of them actually slam their doors on our noses. But somehow we manage to meet some really kind pokcik and mokcik, and we were really lucky because last week was fruit season, we get to savour sweet dukungs and rambutans from some of the villagers.
Here's a brief introduction on our CFCS programme, hope it will be useful to some of the juniors out there who are as blur as me..haha..
CFCS 1: questionnaire is provided by the CFCS secretariat. Each and every group has the same questionnaire and has to distribute them to the residents in their respective kampungs. Usually the kampungs are all in 1 daerah, and each kampung has different number of residents. Each group will get one kampung as their study area, which is randomly selected. If u get a very big kampung as research area, congratulations, there is more work for u. The minimum sample size required is 150, but for my case, my Dr requested for 250, although in the end we just managed to get 180+ after 5 days of hard work. Ok, close your jaw and let's move on.
CFCS 2: A lot of paperwork has to be done in this residency. U'll have to come out with your community diagnosis based on the results from CFCS 1. Eg, there's a high prevalence of people who are overweight and obese in your area, so obesity becomes your community diagnosis. After determining the most prevalent illness/condition, u'll have to move on to presentation. Presentation slides on CFCS1's results should be prepared, u'll present them to the panels. After that, each group has to come out with their own questionnaire, which must include 3 elements: Knowledge, Attitude, Practice. Then a pretest should be done on the questionnaires, u should find at least 100 respondents (i think so) to fill in the questionnaire and find out what is the problem with the questionnaire, be it too long, too confusing, too misleading, too sensitive, etc.Then after some corrections, u'll move on to brainstorming for intervention plans. What can u do to reduce the prevalence of your community diagnosis? Let's say your main problem is obesity and overweight, of course u should target on their exercise, diets, etc. So for your intervention, u can include aerobic exercise, talks on importance of healthy diet, medical checkup, walkathon, and many more. These intervention plans are actually for CFCS 3, but since u won't have enough time for that later (communicable block is after CFCS2), it's better to start earlier. Then u'll have to come out with the budget for your intervention. The last thing u have to do in CFCS2 is masuk kampung, distribute questionnaire, find foster homes, key in SPSS data, analyse data, prepare for presentation, present to CFCS panels, then u're done.
CFCS3: Basically in this residency, u'll have to stay with your foster parents and run your intervention plans. Since I haven't been through this yet, I shall update this next time, together with CFCS4.
That's all for this post. Thank you for reading. Have a nice day~
