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Tuesday 16 March 2021
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    16 March 2021 - 16 March 2021
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    Trypanophobia in the Era of COVID-19 Vaccinations

    Dr Amanda Albert


    After such an unprecedented pandemic, the world at large breathed a collective sigh of relief when
    hailing the advent of the COVID-19 vaccine this year. For those who fear getting a needle in the arm,
    this relief is usually mixed with some anxiety regarding the process.


    Fear or phobia?


    Fear of needles is not uncommon – needles pierce the skin and cause pain, and some postulate that
    avoidance of this pain is an evolutionary instinct. The human race survived by avoiding pain and
    injury with a fear instinct, creating a human predisposition to this fear of needles. However, it is
    when this fear reaches the extreme level of phobia, affecting one’s ability to obtain the vaccine or
    undergo any other medical procedure involving needles, that a problem arises. A fear and a phobia
    are not the same.


    There exists several different medical terms for phobia of various kinds of needles, but the specific
    phobia of medical procedures involving needles is called trypanophobia. It is one of the specific
    phobias listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-V),
    one of the ...





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    16 March 2021 08:00am - 16 March 2021 05:00pm
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    Feng Kasih adalah satu program anjuran Feng Club yang diadakan untuk mengeratkan kasih silaturrahim di kalangan staf Fakulti Kejuruteraan, UNIMAS.

    Feng Kasih mengetengahkan tema “Menyemarakkan Cinta Feng Kasih Melalui Tauladan Islam” di mana pelbagai aktiviti akan dianjurkan bagi menyemarakkan cinta Feng Kasih ini.

    Aktiviti pertama Feng Kasih adalah ceramah bersempena Isra’ Mikraj 2021 / 1442H dengan tajuk Ibrah Isra’ Mikraj: Satu Perjalanan Penyucian Hati Menuju Ilahi. Tajuk ini dipilih untuk menjelaskan ibrah di sebalik peristiwa isra’ mikraj Rasullullah SAW. Suatu peristiwa agung yang perlu diambil iktibar bagi mendidik hati untuk menjadi insan yang lebih baik melalui tauladan utama agung Islam, Baginda Rasullullah SAW di samping menjelajahi isi utama dari peristiwa isra’ mikraj ini.

    Ceramah ini diadakan pada:

    Tarikh: 11 Mac 2021 bersamaan 27 Rejab 1442H

    Masa: 1030am – 1200pm

    Platform: Atas Talian (Webex)

    Ceramah dimulakan dengan bacaan doa oleh Dr Mohd Faizrizwan bin Mohd Sabri yang merupakan staf akademik Jabatan Kejuruteraan Elektrik dan Elektronik (JKEE), Fakulti Kejuruteraan. Seterusnya sesi ceramah dimulakan dan disampaikan oleh Ustaz Mohammad Wan Mujahid bin Wan Alwi yang merupakan Penolong Pegawai Hal Ehwal Islam di Pusat Islam Tun Abang Salahudin, UNIMAS.

    Seramai 120 orang staf UNIMAS yang ...





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