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Death is inevitable in a health practise that happens unpredictably in all clinical settings and affect the emotions of health care providers. The emotional disturbance is an instinctive response of a normal man and will be felt no matter how many times they encounter it. It is just a part of human intrinsic behaviour. Although being told and knew that death is part of a life cycle and people pass away because of old age and illness, health professionals will still undergo significant impact from a dying patient (Ratanawongsa et al., 2005). The stress can notably affect the performance of healthcare providers in caring for the other patients. The most common responds from studies shows that doctors withdraw from other patients and colleagues …show more content…

Intermittent implementations of dying patients to a problem-based learning modules allow students to discuss and share about their views about facing a dying patient. As a Second Year medical student, the toughness begins with transition from Year One comfort-zone to the clinical years ahead. More clinical applications are incorporated into the curriculum emphasising on medical professional and personal development in handling all sorts of situations in a hospital. Upon my research, I realise that the transition from pre-clinical to clinical settings is closing up and this opportunity brings insight into the professional aspect of being a doctor. The emotional and personal responses to an expiring patients is what to be addressed in the CBL sessions where appropriate to stimulate the growth in Second Year medical students as a number of our CBL cases involved in end-of-life care. On the other hand, the response is absolutely normal in doctors as a human being although the patient is not related to us. However, the approach taken steer this emotion and the skill learnt from each encounter are vital in preparing us for the challenging and rewarding career field to come in years. Second year of medical school is the most fit time to unfold this professional development issue as we have gain basic medical knowledge in first year to build on

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