Student:  Ferreiro Losada, Maria Teresa
Location:  Novi Sad Clinic Center, Novi Sad, Republika Srpska
Period:  From 13-VII-2003 to 13-VIII-2003

I was during one month in the hospital of Novi Sad. It’s a hospital with not so many technological resources, but full of competent doctors.. I was in the Internal Medicine Service, in the section of Hemathology, during fifteen days.

During this time I visited the patients of that floor every morning, and I was in a laboratory where I saw different punctions and observed blood preparations trough the microscope. Most of the patients of the floor were people with different kinds of leukemia: a child with a Hodgkin’s lymphoma and a viric pericarditis; a 50 year old woman with plasmacytoma and kidney failure; an old man with a non-Hodking’s lymphoma...

I could observe several clinical signs such as oedema, icteric, dermatological signs...
We spoke in English with doctors and other Medicine students, but with patients we needed help in order to translate what they said.
In Pediatrics Surgery I attended in different tecnics like artroscopy, Perthes disease treatment...

I was at the doctor’s examination room where I saw treatments with splints and the x-ray images. Some days I observed postsurgery children in the floor. The doctor of this section spoke English and Spanish.

The last day of my practices, one doctor showed me the different parts of the hospital: Endocrinology (where he talked about different types of insuline), Gastroenterology (where he talked about cirrhosis and hepathytis), Nefrology (where he spoke about dyalisis)...