Apr. 2015,
Exchange program,
Airlangga university

Naomasa Okimoto
KOBE university

1. Introduction
I was for about a month in Surabaya, which is the second biggest city inIndonesia and is famous as a hot and big city.
I had two weeks in Internal medicine and two weeks in Emergency department at
Dr. Soetomo hospital.

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2. Internal medicine
I learned a lot of things there.
In my ﬁrst and second weeks I visited diﬀerent department each day.

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1st week
Monday; General ward
Tuesday: Outpatient department
Wednesday: Echosonography room
Thursday: Endoscopy room
Friday: Oncology department!

2nd week
Monday, Tuesday: Tropical diseaseward
Wednesday, Thursday: HIV-patients ward
Friday: Oncology department!

In these two weeks I took presentations every morning with Dr. Jongky(mysupervisor).
I chose the patient who was the most interesting for me that day. The resident
there told me about his/her
medical history, condition, vital
sign and so on. Then I performed
the physical examinations. Afterthese, I thought over theassessment and the plan, like how
to diagnose and treat this patient
in my country. The Next morning I
discussed well about this with Dr.
Jongky. Especially, the mostinteresting case was the patientwith dengue hemorrhagic fever Ihaven't seen in Japan.
Needless to say, I cannot read the charts written in Indonesian. But, fortunately, I
was with another exchange student from U.S., who has a good command ofIndonesian. I am very thankful to her for helping me a lot.

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3. Emergency department
In my third and fourth week, I was in Emergency
department.
Diﬀerent from Japanese one, it divided into somedivisions, such as surgery division and internal
medicine division.
I spend the whole time in surgery division. There I
could literally do practical things which were my"ﬁrst" experiences. I could never performed thoseby myself in my school days in Japan.

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4. Daily life
I stayed at Grha ara hotel, which is located justten minutes walking distance away from Dr.
suetomo hospital. Of course here is Indonesia,
not Japan. There are some problems about staythough I chose "Deluxe room"(but it cost only
3,500,000 rupiah for a month). But I recommend
this hotel, because there are kind staﬀs.
Whenever I found a problem, they immediately
solved it. Except a few staﬀs, we couldn't talkwell without Google translator, but we must make excellent friendship.

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On holidays some of my friends accompanied
me to many places.
For example, a friend of mine introduced me
to her friend and he took me some places, likepub. I stayed at his house one night. His family
are very nice. They welcomed me much
warmly. His house is "traditional " one. That's
precious experience.

Other holiday weekend I attended a friend's friend's
wedding party, went to some malls with Airlangga
univ. friends of mine, went to Bali with Japanese
friends and so on.

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On Weekdays I usually went to Galaxy mall by taxi if
I had no plan. There are many restaurants andshops. Compared to Japan, the price is just a littlecheap, because the malls are made for wealthypeople. Of court you can get everything there you
want. It also has a money exchange shop. You can
exchange money at higher rate there than inairports.

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5. Conclusion
During this program I have got a lot of things;
knowledge about diseases(T.B., HIV, DHF, SLEand so on), religion problem, how to treat aMuslim who rejects any physical contact, etc.
Naturally what is the most important are“Friends”.
They helped me a lot and accompanied me to
many places almost everyday.
I really thank all the people worried about me
not only in Indonesia but also in Japan.

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I never forget all the friends and all the
precious experiences there.