Category Archives: Placements 2014

Final Week.

During this final week I was given the job of recruiting new participants. I really enjoyed this aspect of my clinical research experience- I spent most the early part of the week making a recruitment poster to inform potential new … Continue reading

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Week 5- More scanning.

Today marks the end of a busy week scanning new participants for the study. This week I played a much more active role in the scanning and communication with the participants. I got to help operate the ultrasound machine by … Continue reading

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Week 4- Data Entry.

This week has been quite a pivotal week – plans have put into motion to begin the next stage of research, its also been very rewarding as I finished a job I had been doing throughout the last couple of … Continue reading

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Week 7: Continuing On

This week we have continued to collect patient files and enter their data into the spreadsheet (about 70% have been filled in now). We have also started going into the other two health record sites at the hospital that we … Continue reading

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Week 8 and it’s all over (for a bit!)

So it’s the end of my placement here at the William Harvey and these past eight weeks have flown by. It’s been such a great opportunity and I’ve learnt so much. Over the past week we’ve really been picking up … Continue reading

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Week 3- Conclusions and Planning.

Today marks the end of my third week of my clinical research experience. This week I have continued my work with analysing the ultrasound scans of the thoracolumbar fascia- over halve way through now, getting there! I have found that … Continue reading

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Week 7 and I’m almost finished

So my initial 8 weeks are almost up! The projects are still going strong and we’re pushing to do as many files as we can a day. Last week I was averaging about 12 files a day and we’ve now completed … Continue reading

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Weeks 3 & 4: Clinics, meetings & spreadsheets.

So picking up from the last blog, Wednesday morning I went to K&C hospital for the Advanced Kidney Care Clinic and the X-ray meeting. First off was the meeting. Apart from seeing some X-rays I wasn’t really sure what to … Continue reading

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Week 2- Categorization

The theme for this week was categorization, whether it was sorting studies or scans. Through the beginning part of the week I spent my time perusing a new avenue of research that I mentioned in my blog last week- this … Continue reading

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Week 6: Lots of Data Entering

This week we have been continuing to collect the paper patient files and enter the SUTO data into the spreadsheet. In order to keep in track of all of the different files and where to find them (there’s files that … Continue reading

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