Outpatient clinic posting

Well, this is second week posting in outpatient clinic. Now we are under guidance of HUSM Dietitian. We need to go to clinic before 8am and indent for diet in certain ward first before outpatient counseling in clinic.

Although it is not much different with 1st outpatient posting during 3rd year second semester, but I am still very nervous whenever it is my turn to do the counseling. I still feel like my knowledge is not enough for me to be graduated and work as a real dietitian.

The cases that has refer to diet clinic are mostly the common disease such as diabetes mellitus, gestational diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, infertility associated with obesity, chronic kidney disease, gout and failure to thrive. There may be also some rare cases like cancer, heart disease, cerebral palsy, down syndrome and etc. However, so far I only have the opportunity to counsel on HPT and HPL.

Now I notice that there is quite a number of gestational diabetes mellitus among pregnant mother. Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is diabetes during pregnancy that a women never had it before.

* Refer the next entry for more detail about GDM.