As usual, we had to face a different kind of challenge ……………This time it was health education. We had to educate children in an orphanage on a topic related to health. All the girls had 2 challenges , teaching kids wearing SAREEs.
We divided ourselves in to 4 groups. Our subgroup got the girls of year 15-17 of age. So our main topic was healthy life under which we considered physical, mental & social well being. So there were 4 subtopics .namely, personal hygiene, how to do the day today studies well (how to prepare a short note in a effective way, memorizing and understanding,), leisure time activities ,personality & social interactions. Initially I did not take this programme seriously,as we had to present in front of a bunch of teen agers . Of course, we had lots of facts. But we realized th echallange was giving them our knowledgein a way they could understand . In fact , it had to be short and sweet. Then I thought our worries are over. When we were teaching them, I understood that we should hide our anxiety & show them our confidence in order to get their trust in return. Also it was very hard to get all of their attention towards the speaker ,because of their playful teen age.
Altogether it was a nice experience. I had to do the
introduction. When I went in front of them , an unexpected thing happened. (Well , my friends might guess this
“unexpected thing” has to do something with
my saree ;) and Luckily i was not that much unlucky). All of a sudden, they stand up and greeted me. I really didn’t expect
such a behavior from them. I was really surprised . Also during
the question session, they raised questions one after another, surprising us.( however we managed to give sensible answers to all of
them).
@ the beginning I asked my self, why this health education
thing? Is this something useless?????????????? Now adays doctors play a major
role in preventive health in addition to, the classical role of a Doctor,
curing and treating the patient. For both purposes they educate the public
which is called “public health education”. So as
medical students, its important for us to know how to deliver a speech
containing health information in an
understandable way to the public.
Madhushi Nanayakara
Post no 2 .
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