We were informed a day in advance that an orientation gift was prepared for us, and we're supposed to perform some drills to kickstart the official duties. We forced-prepared our bags for this mini event, and we were pumped for not preparing well enough. We everything out and everything in for s good 1.5 hours before starting our trial audit to test our competency as medics to save people onsite. We were given breaks in between so it wasn't as tiring. Though we may hold license to do basic cardiac life support, I think the most important thing is not just having the skill itself, but being able to act and carry out the skills in appropriate times, specifically under pressure and when we're in shock.

After which, we attended to a casualty lying in the middle of a flight of stairs, with signs of fall from height, and we're to evacuate him into the ambulance after securing him. During our training at SMtI, I remember some of us laughed at the medics being assessed of not being competent, and I realised there're really lots of things to take note to secure the casualties. Physically tiring to some extent, and mentally stressful but our casualties are not even heavy. During the assessment, we need to be firm and totally sure of what we're doing, and to really take charge of the situation, using all the resources available to achieve the safe and swift evacuation of casualty. The exercise finally ended at about 9 and we were treated to some kfc before heading home because we didn't bring our uniform.

In my opinion, we did badly for the first trial, but it reveal a lot of mistake that we possibly could have made in a real case scenario. And in view that we were only using fake casualties as practices, the real ones would be more traumatic and stressful, so we'll have to prepare ourselves much more. We should also practise and revise our core skills to ensure we know what to do in any given cases. To sum up, I do certainly hope we will train harder to strive for being more competent in our duties.