Category Archives: placements 2013

Putting everything together

Posted on August 31, 2013 by

After all the tedious work of collecting and analyzing the results, it was time to put it together in a poster. We used line graphs to display the results. It was a task to get the results into graphical form … Continue reading →

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Summer Placement

Posted on August 31, 2013 by

On the 18th of August I met with Dr Mohammed Sakel and Dr Robin Mckenzie to discuss the study which I would undertake during the summer. Since then I have been researching articles concerning persistent vegetative state, low consciousness state … Continue reading →

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Second Week of my Hospital Placement-The hard work begins!!

Posted on August 29, 2013 by

This week I have been trying to combine the two still images (anterior and posterior) obtained from gastric emptying scintigraphy into a single, more accurate image that is clearer for the clinician and less affected by the attenuation of the … Continue reading →

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First week of my placement at Canterbury and Kent Hospital

Posted on August 29, 2013 by

On the first day I was introduced to other members of staff and shown the general workings of a nuclear medicine department.  For the next few days we went over lots (and lots!) of health and safety relating to working … Continue reading →

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Another post bites the dust.

Posted on August 29, 2013 by

29/08/2013 Hello again! It’s been about a week since I last wrote an entry, so I thought I’d better update you all on what I’ve been doing. Now, I may have written my first entry on the 21st, but due … Continue reading →

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Phew! Talk about busy!!!

Posted on August 29, 2013 by

21/08/2013 Ok then guys, geronimo. Well I’ve been at the William Harvey for 2 weeks out of my 8 and so far I’ve been so busy with this and that I haven’t really had time to blink, let alone write … Continue reading →

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What did the results show?

Posted on August 15, 2013 by

At the end of our long period of data collection, we finally had enough results to go forward. We had data on a total of 23 subject eyes; equal amounts of left and right eyes and 16 males to 7 … Continue reading →

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Obtaining Results

Posted on August 11, 2013 by

This is a long process of data gathering. It had to be done in the ophthalmology clinical room.. since only that room contains the oymap machine and the other computer in the room contained the software to obtain the other … Continue reading →

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Ophthalmolgy Research: The beginning of an exciting experience

Posted on July 31, 2013 by

This research started out as a clinical observational study done within the Kent and Canterbury ophthalmology department. We intended to look changes in the retina of the eye pre and post laser therapy in diabetic macular oedema. To do this … Continue reading →

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This is the End

Posted on July 28, 2013 by

Hello everybody, hello for the last time! So this week was the final week of my 8-week research placement here at the University of Kent. I was told to write a ‘2 DIN A4 pages long blog’ for the final … Continue reading →

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