Category Archives: placements 2013

The Final Week of my Hospital Placement.

This week I have been producing a scientific poster displaying the method and results of the research I have conducted over the past weeks.  At first I was unsure of the style and content of a typical scientific poster, but … Continue reading

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Summer Placement

Well, it’s nearing the end of my summer placement now and it has been a great experience. The only obstacle that I came across was the difficulty of accessing medical articles for students online. The spreadsheet is all completed and … Continue reading

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Third Week of my Hospital Placement.

In the past week I have been reviewing the literature already written on Gastric Emptying Scintigraphy and writing a small report.  I have struggled with access to journal articles but have learnt a great deal on how serious some of … Continue reading

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The end… and Goodbye

It is finally over… a bit relieved and a bit sad. It was time to fly back home to England. We finished our poster and presented it with great success. It was quite an exciting and worthwhile venture…. where I … Continue reading

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Presentation Day

So… the big day arrived! This is the day that we had to present our poster to the attendees and interested audience at the conference. We started bright and early with a lovely American breakfast of yummy pancakes… and then … Continue reading

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Same old same old.

Hello again, it must have been a while now since I last updated you all on what I’ve been up to. Well since the last time, I’ve just been plodding on as before, retrieving the physical case notes and finding … Continue reading

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Fourth and Fifth Weeks of my Hospital Placement.

During these weeks the project moved on from still images to dynamic images which were slightly more difficult to work with.  In dynamic imaging the patient is still scanned for five minutes at each time interval (images produced 0, 30, … Continue reading

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Our trip to Seattle….

So, the end result of all this research was to present our findings and conclusions at an international conference, which took place in Seattle, Washington in USA this year. The conference was called ARVO- Association for Research in Vision and … Continue reading

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The end of Week 4…

Wow, I can’t believe it’s been 4 weeks already! Time has flown by and so has this placement. About halfway through now and I’ve done a fair amount of work. I think last time I left you I had just … Continue reading

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Getting ready to present

The weeks before our conference were stressful…. with putting together the poster and preparing our presentation. We also had to get the poster printed as well as fliers or links to show how we obtained our data. I spent lots … Continue reading

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