Surgery PPT Presentation Topic

[bengeminy]

Hey guys,
So I'm on my gen surg audition rotation and I have to give a presentation. I need to basically present an interesting case I saw and have 2 research articles related to my case. I've been working on my ppt on an adult with perforated meckel's diverticulitis and after was discovered to also have carcinoid. My problem is that although a rare case I feel like it isn't very interesting. The patient wasn't too complicated, I think pt was discharged the day after the surgery and followed up on labs to see if we removed all the carcinoid tumor which we did. Also since it's rare, it's hard to find any studies done. Do you think this is a good enough case or should I be presenting someone who had a lot more complications and something more related to surgery?I think I'm just over thinking it but I just want to do a good job. Thanks for the help!

Oh, also if anyone has ever given a presentation to residents and attendings during gen surg rotation, if you could give advice on what to prepare for (questions, etc) that would be awesome.

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[Smurfette]

Both Meckel's and carcinoid are interesting topics to gen surgeons, as they aren't as common as things like (sigmoid) diverticulitis, appendicitis, gallbladder problems, hernias, etc. Talking about carcinoid would also allow you to discuss systemic symptoms (even if your particular patient did not have any) and to find some articles on how to manage these symptoms, work up a patient, site of origin, etc., which is a good topic for an MS4. For the patient to have both conditions at the same time is particularly unusual and would probably stimulate good discussion and interest from a GS audience compared to talking about stuff seen more frequently.

 

[Winged Scapula]

I agree with SMURFETTE.

While this may not seem very interesting to you, it is in fact, a topic of great interest to general surgeons. We're weird like that.

They're both also a commonly asked about scenario on our board exams. Thus it's always good to have a refresher on those rarely seen but commonly asked about problems.

 

[DermViser]

Hey guys,
So I'm on my gen surg audition rotation and I have to give a presentation. I need to basically present an interesting case I saw and have 2 research articles related to my case. I've been working on my ppt on an adult with perforated meckel's diverticulitis and after was discovered to also have carcinoid. My problem is that although a rare case I feel like it isn't very interesting. The patient wasn't too complicated, I think pt was discharged the day after the surgery and followed up on labs to see if we removed all the carcinoid tumor which we did. Also since it's rare, it's hard to find any studies done. Do you think this is a good enough case or should I be presenting someone who had a lot more complications and something more related to surgery?I think I'm just over thinking it but I just want to do a good job. Thanks for the help!

Oh, also if anyone has ever given a presentation to residents and attendings during gen surg rotation, if you could give advice on what to prepare for (questions, etc) that would be awesome.

Medical education LOVES zebras. That applies to almost all medical specialties.

 

[Kaustikos]

The OPs post reminds me of my time in peds cardiothoracic surgery. I saw so many rare things that it became so common to me. We're scrubbing in on one case and the attending says "man, only 15 cases ever reported of this."
I wasn't phased. Then I realized I had seen almost every congenital heart defect ever in 2 weeks.

 

[bengeminy]

Thanks guys! So I decided to follow everyone's advice and present the meckels case. I fumbled a lot because I was so nervous, but they said they liked it so I'm satisfied.