24 December 2014
The Caduceus Online's one-word theme of "Lights" for the month of December aims to encompass the essence of the season. During Christmas time, the places we call home glow brighter with Christmas lights and with smiling faces of children and adults alike. Almost everyone is light-hearted in this season of joy and thanksgiving.
In this issue, you will find the events that transpired in CIM's most festive season, highlighted by the Founders' Week Celebration. Instead of the usual Case in Focus that talks about health-related cases, we have CIM's Man in Focus - our 2014 Most Outstanding CIM Alumnus. The Mezzanine Matters tackles various interpretations of this month's theme; you may want to check it out for your holiday reflection. You will also find in this online issue the products of CIM students' creativity in the Bard in the Ward and Physician with an Art sections. Finally, we asked the student body for suggestions for future Founders' Week activities in the CIM Pulse.
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| Lights: A promise of warmth, of beautiful beginnings, and bittersweet endings |
May we all be surrounded with love, joy, and hope this Christmas season. May we always remember to shine our light from within. In the darkest nights, that's when light shines the brightest- the same goes for our passion in the pursuit for our heart's desires.
May lights guide you home this Christmas,
Dena Mae Amor N. Desabille
The Caduceus' EIC
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20 November 2014
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| Artwork by Joclef Suerte of Batch Vertex |
"Mortui Vivos Docent" --the dead teaches the living.
We may be weeks late from Halloween, but this November issue of the Caduceus is inspired by and dedicated for the encounters with death and dying. As aspiring doctors who are trained to prolong life and ease the process of dying, we learn so many things along the way - from our first cadaver encounter inside the Anatomy Lab to the inevitable deaths of our patients at the wards. We are somehow reminded of our borrowed time on earth and hopefully, this realization pushes us to make the most out of everything.
Read about different takes on this month's theme in our Mezzanine Matters, Bard in the Ward, Physician with An Art, and the newly-added section CIM Pulse. Keep yourself updated with the latest news in CIM with articles posted on the Current Events section. Also, learn more about Movember on this month's Case in Focus.
-Dena Mae Amor N. Desabille
Editor-in-chief of The Caduceus
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20 October 2014
Aside from the true purpose of our difficult and often painful molding to become competent and caring physicians in the future, I have learned to perceive the turbulent med school journey as a means for us to better appreciate the good things in life. Perhaps an apt analogy would be the bitterness of black coffee against the sweetness of your favorite pastry; isn't it that the latter becomes even sweeter in contrast with the bitterness of the former?
In the same way, the brief period of respite afforded by the two-week sem break of Batch Vertex and Batch Spectra are most welcome -- needed, even. The other things that we used to take for granted (e.g. sleeping on our own bed, singing our lungs out, hugging our family members, even those deep breaths) become more valuable and are therefore more cherished. Ah, the awareness of the fleeting nature of this temporary "freedom" pushes us to make the most out of it.
I hope we enjoy the sem break while it lasts, Vertex and Spectra. It would also be our (The Caduceus editorial board and staff's) joy if you read the articles that we wrote for you in the different sections of this October issue.
For Batch Asterion and Batch Cistron, here's a typography:
Hoping to encourage,
Dena
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30 September 2014
"CIM dear alma mater, our thanks for everything"
The first few lyrics of the CIM hymn resonate loudly in the new articles of The Caduceus' September issue. Inside, you will find inspiring interviews with the PLE 2014 board topnotchers from Batch Syncytia, as well as news about the first prize winner of the oratorical competition in the recently concluded Philippine Medicine Week celebration in Cebu. You may also want to check out the Bard in the Ward for the extra kick of emotions brought about by poems from fellow medical students.
The articles are best read in between long hours of studying with a coffee on hand, and with your study playlist in the background.
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| ...or a cup of tea and balut, whatever helps you stay awake at night, really :-) |
We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoyed writing them for you. May the articles serve as reminders of better days ahead, after the all-nighters and never-ending piles of unread pages.
Off to make my own cup of coffee,
Dena
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August 2014
Welcome!
On behalf of the editorial board and staff of The Caduceus, I would like to formally welcome you to our online portal.
This year, we aim to bring you a publication written by and for the students of the Cebu Institute of Medicine. It is our goal to bring you the latest news in our beloved alma mater and to showcase creative outputs of our fellow medical students such as poetry and artworks, among others.
We bear the symbol of The Caduceus, the staff of Hermes with two snakes. Hermes is widely known as the messenger of the gods. It stands as symbol of our vision to become your messengers, with the pen as our weapon of choice. It is worth noting, though, that this symbol is not to be confused with the appropriate symbol of medicine: Asclepius, the staff with one snake, as seen in the CIM logo.
In the coming months, we hope to write articles that will make you think, feel, and reflect -- quite possibly all at the same time. Feel free to scan through this first online publication and read the different articles in your study break.
Yours in truth and reason,
Dena Mae Amor N. Desabille
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