Today I got to sit in on an editing session of a research presentation. Dr. N, a medical student, is doing a retrospective research project on the effect of chest contusions and rib fractures on over all outcome, so it's in many ways similar and completely different from my project. She presented her power point to Dr. S, Dr. L, who I assume was her mentor on the project, Dr. A, Dr. T, as well as me. I think that Dr N, is a 3rd or 4th year medical student since before she began presenting she talked with Dr. S about receiving her desired "track". From what I gather, tracks are essentially the order of specialties that you rotate through as a medical student. I think that Dr. T was a surgery resident who helped with the project. Dr. N took us through her research which looked at how the severity of chest contusions correlated with the outcome of the patient. It was really fascinating and also incredibly helpful to see her give her presentation as this will be me in a few short weeks!
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My mentor was back in town this week and completely redirected what I was looking at number wise. Instead of just looking at patients who have hypertriglyceridemia and acute pancreatitis, as well as patients that have hypertriglyceridemia and chronic pancreatitis separately he instructed me to look at those that have hypertriglyceridemia and any pancreatitis at all. I also discovered something tangentially interesting to my project. There was little to no statistical significance to the primary procedure the patients under went. Meaning of some 350 patients that had a primary procedure listed very few of them had anything to do with their hypertriglyceridemia or pancreatitis. Basically this means that patients came in with things from a broken leg to a chest pain and doctors did things to treat those main issues while still noting through lab work the variable that I'm looking at. I just found it really cool that hospitals have the resources to record things like triglyceride levels that allows for further research about tangential conditions.
This week my main mentor was out of town but I met with Dr. A. He had me perform more statistical analysis including cross tabulations of different factors. For example I looked at the subset of patients who not only had acute pancreatitis and hypertriglyceridemia but also had pseudocysts and we found that those patients were a lot more likely to have pseudocysts then those who only had hypertriglyceridemia. It was a very interesting meeting in that I learned what to do and what not do when doing write ups.
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