GIG1005 SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT 2020

Hello there! We're the first year student of UM Biomedical Science, from Group 2. We have prepared two posters regarding Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and proper handwashing. In addition, we also prepared one video on proper handwashing. This is to raise your awareness about COVID-19 and also the importance of proper hand hygiene in order to prevent the transmission of microorganisms (eg: COVID-19) effectively.  First of all, these are the two posters about Corona Virus Disease 2019 or also known as COVID-19 and proper handwashing. Poster regarding Covid-19 including the way of transmission, symptoms of infection, preventions and current treatment. Poster regarding proper handwashing steps, the importance and when you should wash your hands. Lastly, this is the video about the steps of proper handwashing! Remember to follow all these steps and wash your hands for at least 20 seconds to ensure your hands are free from the harmful microorganisms!  We sug

          For First Year Group 2, their first internal workshop for Social Engagement was held on 13 March 2020, from 3PM until 7PM. At 3PM, every group members were asked to gather at Seminar Room of the Department of Biomedical Science to start the internal workshop. This workshop is based on module 1 and module 2 which explain about Microbes, and was guide by our coordinator, Dr. Puah. In order to ensure that all of the group members fully understand about both modules, all members were asked to perform the hands on by themselves. This is to prepare themselves before they present about these two modules at SMK Sri Pantai.          To begin, Dr Puah first give a brief explanation regarding Module 2 (How does bacteria look), which is to assemble a foldscope that resembles a mini microscope. After Dr Puah has taught them how to assemble the foldscope using the paper provided, the first year students were given the chance to do it themselves. Then, the foldscope was used to view mic

        The second internal workshop is held on 29 February 2020 at the seminar room of Biomedical Science Department. The second year students gathered at 9.00 am where we started with our module involving DNA fingerprinting. It begun with a short briefing from our coordinator for this course, Dr Puah before we worked hands-on to learn about the module. Dr Kee was also present to help us with the module. We were given materials where we had to solve a case of cheese theft. This is a classic example of DNA fingerprinting in forensics. It involves activities of PCR and gel electrophoresis. The first activity involve the cutting of DNA molecules at specific nucleotide sequence and pasting them on a mahjung paper provided. For our second activity, to visualise results of PCR, we drew a table and pasted the fragments of sequence according to its size (base pair). From the activity we did, we managed to understand the module better and will be able to teach it better to the students of SMK

The first internal workshop for Social Engagement was held on 26/2/2020 from 5.00 pm to 6.30 pm with the guidance of Dr. Puah Suat Moi and her postgraduate students. This workshop was done to ensure all of the students were well-prepared for the visit and to ensure that the event will run smoothly with as little errors as possible. It has been a long day for the students and Dr Puah but everyone was still motivated and energetic to get things going! The workshop started with the briefing for the first school visit, which was the visit to SMK Sri Aman. The students are then separated into their respective groups to do a test run of the experiments that would be conducted with the students on the event day. The experiments that will be done that day included: Extracting DNA from cheek cells Extracting DNA from fruits After the students fully understood the procedures of the experiments and the reasonings for why each step was done, it was then followed by di