5 Ways to Improve Myself in Cancer Cytogenetics

After the second day of my training in National University Hospital (NUH) Singapore, I started to try to find the fastest ways to improve myself in cancer cytogenetics. As I mentioned in my previous post, I found that there are five deficiencies for me in doing leukemia cytogenetics. Therefore, I have to try my best to turn the things around.

Learning While Doing the Research

Yes, I have to admit that I do not have adequate knowledge about cancer cytogenetics. However, I can learn the knowledge while doing my leukemia cancer research. Thus, I planned to read through the reading materials about the leukemia first especially for the acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). This will be the beginning step for me now.

Fully-utilized the Equipments

As it is almost impossible for me to get the new machines and equipments that are required for cancer cytogenetics, I will try my best to modify the protocols so that it may work well with the machine and equipments that we have currently. I will look through the whole University of Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) to check the availability of the machines and equipments in other laboratories.

Analyzing Skill

In order to improve my analyzing skill, there are three ‘more’ that I have to achieve.

i. View More

I have to view more metaphases especially from the cancer patients so that I can familiar with the characteristics and morphologies of the abnormal cells.

ii. Try More

I have to try to karyotype and analyze more metaphases even though I might make a lot of mistakes. I will apply the try and errors method to make myself good in analyzing.

iii. Consult More

During the time I do my cancer cytogenetics research, I might need a lot of guidance from an experienced Cytogeneticist. So, I will consult more people by using internet discussion group, email and so on.

Accumulate my Experience

Although I need some times to accumulate my experience in cancer cytogenetics, I can consult the experienced staffs in my laboratory. I think they are willing to teach me as they are friendly, helpful and kind.

Spend my Time Wisely

Yes, another main problem for me is the time. I need to race with the time. Anyway, what I can do is just try my best and do the best. I have to more focus to cancer cytogenetics now. Then how about blogging? I might not update the blog as frequent as now start from today. I have to do so. I am so sorry about this. But I will not just dump this blog away. I love this blog very much. How about you? Haha…

Summing up, there are a lot of things that I need to do start from now so that I can catch up the pace for cancer cytogenetics. Before I end up this blog post, I would like to thank to all the members of NUH Cytogenetics Lab. They have taught me a lot of things. Thanks to Prof Hany too!