ideas for an elective research topic in Vanuatu

[nopockets]

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Hi!🙂 I'm not from an American med school, but we have a similar residency programme. I won't be applying to US hospitals, so the peculiarities of the US match isn't a worry.. i'm just soliciting ideas for topics here 🙂

I might be going to Vanuatu next year for an elective about 3-5 weeks. I don't have to do a research topic while im there..but I might want to, because it will interesting.

I'll be applying to a peds residency, and that's where my interest lies. I'm thinking of doing a fun, light-hearted, interesting topic while I'm there. I'm already starting on a project on pediatric pneumothoraxes under an awesome mentor..so I really just wanna do something silly (in our PT project we're having a guess-the-size-of-the-PT competition so i have a random streak i must indulge. so don't yooo judge me)..but something clinically useful too. 🙂 ideas?

(on the other hand, i don't expect everyone to be as enthusiastic about Pacific Islander culture as I am haha. but we'll see)

 

[oldbearprofessor]

Hi!🙂 I'm not from an American med school, but we have a similar residency programme. I won't be applying to US hospitals, so the peculiarities of the US match isn't a worry.. i'm just soliciting ideas for topics here 🙂

I might be going to Vanuatu next year for an elective about 3-5 weeks. I don't have to do a research topic while im there..but I might want to, because it will interesting.

I'll be applying to a peds residency, and that's where my interest lies. I'm thinking of doing a fun, light-hearted, interesting topic while I'm there. I'm already starting on a project on pediatric pneumothoraxes under an awesome mentor..so I really just wanna do something silly (in our PT project we're having a guess-the-size-of-the-PT competition so i have a random streak i must indulge. so don't yooo judge me)..but something clinically useful too. 🙂 ideas?

(on the other hand, i don't expect everyone to be as enthusiastic about Pacific Islander culture as I am haha. but we'll see)

I believe I'll need to visit the site in order to provide meaningful ideas. Please send me a plane ticket.😀

Your BFFL

OBP

For silly but useful: Consider behavioral stuff. Thumb-sucking is always interesting....

 

[nopockets]

I believe I'll need to visit the site in order to provide meaningful ideas. Please send me a plane ticket.😀

Your BFFL

OBP

For silly but useful: Consider behavioral stuff. Thumb-sucking is always interesting....

Kok blong yu i slack taem yu slip wetem woman?" I was amused to find that this long phrase stands for only one word in Vanuatu--"impotence." Vanuatu, a little known country in the South Pacific, was my choice of elective destination.
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http://www.anglofrenchmedical.org/students.php?page=vanuatu
http://archive.student.bmj.com/issues/04/01/life/30.php

and thumb-sucking is indeed very interesting! now i just have to make a quick literature review of what research has already been done on thumb-sucking.
and what exactly to find out about thumb-sucking? duration, eventual handedness, unilateral or bilateral? 🙂

any other ideas around?😀