So anyway, here's the rundown of today's schedule:
7:00-8:30 AM Breakfast at Crossroads (the campus dining hall)
8:45-9:45 AM Lecture: Veterinary Medicine
10:00-11:00 AM Public Health Intervention Meeting
11:15AM-12:45 PM Diagnostic Simulation
1:00 PM Bus leaves for SFGH
2:00-4:30 PM San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center
4:45 PM Bus departs for campus
5:45-7:15 PM Dinner
7:30-9:00 PM Lecture: Neurosurgery
9:15-10:15 PM College Life Panel
10:30 PM Floor Check
Seems pretty cool right?
I hope that breakfast is pretty self-explanatory. :) The lecture was pretty interesting. The speaker was Dr. Goodnight and is the head veterinarian at the San Francisco Veterinary Hospital at the zoo. She had some pretty great stories and explained her field and how it differed from other fields in medicine.
The public health intervention is the time we get to work on our presentation. I know I haven't really explained that very well in previous posts, but I have a little more time tonight to write. In our TA groups (15 in mine), we have to design an mini intervention and a PSA. We get a 10,000 dollar budget and must create a presentation to explain it. On Sunday, we present it to the entire conference. That hour in the schedule is time we used to get some work done on that project.
We still have the same two patients for the diagnostic simulation. I am the main doctor for one of the patients, and am 98% sure she has lyme disease. We "ran" some tests and will be getting the results tomorrow.
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The hospital was great. The first part was just listening to a few people on the board about each of their career paths. The second part was going up to the simulation room. They had a ton of cool equipment that their med students use, and we got to play with it! The first station was a super high tech dummy that was hooked up to a computer that controlled him. He would respond to questions, had pulses and lung sounds (so you could hear wheezing and a systolic murmur) and he would even "crash", meaning we had to perform CPR and manually respirate him using a bag. Then we had a little more advanced CPR lesson where we learned to perform it on adolescents and even babies. Then we learned a little about using the vitals machine that are used at nearly every hospital.
Then came my favorite part. We got to learn to place IV Catheters! I wouldn't really say it was a fake arm, but it was a little block of wood with fake blood flowing through several "veins" and some "skin" covering them. Everything was nearly the same texture as a real arm/body. The nurse showed us how you went in at a thirty degree angle and then stopped as soon a little blood slipped through the catheter, then released it to slide the needle back out. Mine actually worked! Hahaha.
After returning from SFGH, we pulled a Stewie and had desert before dinner. We went to this Berkeley-renowned ice cream place called Cream. Their specialty is a dip of ice cream sandwiched between two fresh cookies. BOOM! It was delicious!!
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Neurosurgery lecture speaker was Dr. Fereidoon Parsioon. The lecture was mainly focused on aneurisms. It was extremely interesting to me to listen to him speak AND he brought three different videos. The first was a live surgery where the surgeon successfully put a clamp on the aneurism and saved the patient. The second one was actually where the aneurism ruptured, but I won't gross you out with the gory details. (The surgeon was able to get control of the bleeding, so he saved the guy's life.) The third was just explaining a few techniques on how to try to "fix" an aneurism.
The panel was simply where we got to ask our TAs who are college students about their experiences.
Anyway, today was pretty awesome. :)
Sorry about the lack of pictures; today was jam-packed and I totally forgot.
~Rose
Have fun and study hard so you can give me CPR next time I walk up those steps in Park City.
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