So it seems the semester had just started, and here we are now, just weeks away from finals! Where exactly did this semester go?
Its been a tough one. Mainly because I have so much going on at the same time. But its also been a really fun one, more so because I have had my brothers in Phi Delta Chi to rely on. This semester, my first as President, I got the chance to become so much more involved in every aspect of the fraternity, and since we have such a wonderful pledge class this year, I feel very confident that the generations to come with carry on the traditions that make Phi Delta Chi such a wonderful group in which to belong.
Keeping this in mind, I've attached my podcast from communications class, which just happens to be my message to the brothers, as outgoing president. Enjoy!
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
A taste of Clinicals, finally!
So my friend Rob and I decided to participate in this year's Clinical Skills competetion for the Society of Health System Pharmacists. I had figured as a third year student we'd have a great advantage over any 2nd year's in there, and it would be good practice to see what we have in store after graduation.
Boy! that was an awesome experience. Yesterday we were given a case, a room full of books, and 2 hours in which to come up with a complete therapeutic plan for a patient. No electronic resources, mind you, so no access to primary literature, no looking up guidelines if they weren't in the books that were in the room.
We thought we did a pretty thorough job of it. Then today we had to present the case in, get this - 2 minutes! Two minutes to present everything we came up with, followed by 8 gruelling minutes where Dr. Nappi and Dr. Buie got to shred our therapeutic plan while we defended it with evidence based medicine! It was awesome! We didn't get stumped on a single question, and they seemed genuinely impressed with some of the stuff we came up with!
I am just so stoked about clinicals, I can't wait for rotations to start so I can get to apply more of what we've learnt in the classroom to real, live, patients.
Boy! that was an awesome experience. Yesterday we were given a case, a room full of books, and 2 hours in which to come up with a complete therapeutic plan for a patient. No electronic resources, mind you, so no access to primary literature, no looking up guidelines if they weren't in the books that were in the room.
We thought we did a pretty thorough job of it. Then today we had to present the case in, get this - 2 minutes! Two minutes to present everything we came up with, followed by 8 gruelling minutes where Dr. Nappi and Dr. Buie got to shred our therapeutic plan while we defended it with evidence based medicine! It was awesome! We didn't get stumped on a single question, and they seemed genuinely impressed with some of the stuff we came up with!
I am just so stoked about clinicals, I can't wait for rotations to start so I can get to apply more of what we've learnt in the classroom to real, live, patients.
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