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I attended a talk just now, at the uni. The title was as written, 'Their jihad, not my jihad'. When I first read the title, I thought that it would be very interesting..as it would be talking about jihad. Something that I have just started to learn how to appreciate! So, I attended it, there were two of us, me and my little sister. I thought the topic is interesting enough that it would attract so many people to the talk. Unfortunately, happened to be that there are only the two of us, who are obviously Muslims in the lecture hall. Only the two of us. Then, there were some jews and others were non-muslims. It was...hurm, rather confusing. I was expecting ISOCs would be around. They are always active and participative in these kinda things. After all, I think that the talk was organised by them. Interestingly, it was actually not by them. It was by a society I have never heard of. Anyway, enough of this, what I want to say is about the talk that was delivered. The content of i...

This is one of the workshops that I' ve chosen for the PPD Valuing Diversity programme. Every student was assigned with two workshops. The other other workshop that I got was Deaf Awareness, taken place to weeks ago, which was wonderfully interesting! This one, as I really keen in attending it, wanting to know what's in it...I am really satisfied and happy with what I've learnt just now. Some of the things raised in the workshop were important in building our character, I think, as doctor and more important as a human. One of the things I've able to reflect on today, is the importance of being able to be professional at all times in our future career as we are going to meet so many people with so many different kind of problems, needs, personality and conditions. Things can be we pleasant, or the other way around. This is indeed the nature of dealing with man, I think. Humans are different! There are sometimes similarities, but there are most of the times differences ...

Valuing Diversity sessions held in Term 2 of the second year were among the Personal and Professional Development (PPD) sessions that I was really looking forward to join. From the sessions’ guidelines and introduction, I was well informed that these sessions are designed to train us to become doctors who appreciate and know how to practice a patient centred approach competently. Following the sessions, we are expected to be able to appreciate the diverse nature of human population and to deal appropriately to prejudice. A lecture entitled ‘Equality, discrimination and justice’ was a kick-start to the sessions, which was then followed by two workshops of the students’ choice in the following scheduled weeks. The workshops I was allocated with were Deaf Awareness and Working with Vulnerable People. I had chosen these two workshops because I think that these themes are among the most interesting and important themes that I wanted to have further understanding, to empower me during th...