EY1920 Year Book

161 160 Semester 1 PathFinders Hong Kong Contributions Takeaways 1. Infection Control Measures 2. Child Nutrition Talk 3. Webpage FAQs on common pregnancy-related complications 4. PathFinders Health Centre 5. Doctor appointments at public hospitals, private clinics and government offices 6. House Visits 1. Increased knowledge on Hong Kong Healthcare System 2. Communication skills 3. Accountability and responsibility 4. Teamwork 5. Empathy 6. Friendship 7. Clearer goals on what kind of doctor I wish to be MBBS Enrichment Year 2019/20 Ngai Nicole Tze Yan Semester 2: University of California, San Diego Sem 1 < SH - Internshi p at Path F inders, Hong Kong >; Sem 2 < IC - HKUWW Exchange Programme at University of California San D iego, US > Anthropology English Literature Financial Accounting Financial Instruments Skiing at Lake Tahoe Hamilton @ Broadway Salsa Dance Club + LA Playground Homestay with local family Yosemite National Park Joshua Tree National Park Grand Canyon National Park Mexico, Tijuana Ngai Nicole Tze Yan Ong Chun Kwan B.Sc. (Medical Science) Clinical Medicine at the University of Glasgow Research Project: Association between bipolar disorder (BD)/major depressive disorder (MDD) polygenic risk and adverse cardiovascular endpoints Muay Thai Hall life A cross-sectional study of 285,073 UK Biobank participants was carried out with four multivariate logistic regression analyses: between BD PRS and hypertension; between BD PRS and CVD; between MDD PRS and hypertension; between MDD PRS and CVD. Per standard deviation increase in BD PRS, there was a 1.2% increase in odds of CVD; Per standard deviation increase in MDD PRS, there was a 2.0% decrease in odds of hypertension and and 10.3% decrease in odds of CVD. No significant results were found between BD PRS and hypertension. PRS for BD is associated with higher odds of CVD, yet PRS for MDD showed unconventional negative association with CVD and hypertension. Limitations of PRS including missing heritability were accounted for, and the accuracy of PRS in predicting disease association was hoped to be improved in future studies. Glasgow University is famous for its wide variety of sports clubs and societies. I joined the Glasgow University Muay Thai Club in the first semester. As a beginner in this combat sports, I was quite impressed by how the coach taught every fundamental move systematically in a big- class environment, with extra sparring sessions for practical training. The most grueling part was not the pain from actual jabbing and kicking, but from the intensive warm-up session before every training filled with numerous burpees and mountain climbing. I also made some local friends and a friend from Poland at the “social nights” every Wednesday. We would spend time playing the classic “pub quizzes” and down pints of beer before occasionally visiting the nightclubs. It was definitely one of the interesting experiences that I had in my enrichment year. This was the first time I lived in a student hall accommodation. Cairncross House is just 15 minutes’ walk from the main campus and 25 minutes’ walk from the city center, with loads of different restaurants nearby. I shared a double room with another M23 friend Ernest. Together with three other M23 friends and some exchange students also from HKU living in the same block, we spent many nights cooking, playing mahjong and drinking games. Life was good. There were 12 people in our shared kitchen. I am really grateful to have got along with these hallmates, except the consistently horrendous hygiene condition that some were responsible for. We had a Christmas dinner together and went rock climbing sometimes. The entire hall life was quite different from that in HKU (based on my friends’ experience), yet I still enjoyed the 6-month-stay in Cairncross House a lot. MBBS Enrichment Year 2019/20 Ong Chun Kwan Full Year < IC - I nter c alate d d egree at U ni v er s it y of G la s g ow, U K >