Verbal Defense

[dgroulx]

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Tomorrow is my verbal defense of my 4th year assignment and I'm getting nervous. I've done a zillion presentations, so that part doesn't bother me. After presenting, we are grilled for 10 minutes by 3 fellow students who have been assigned my topic for questions and then 10 minutes by faculty and guest pharmacists.

At least they let us work in groups of 3, so I won't be up there alone. It's not as bad as defending a thesis. This is the reason they bring us back to school after rotations. They get a last crack at us.

 

[MdBrndPhrmcst]

We have to do something similar at my school... we write a comprehensive care plan for a patient...it usually ends up being about 20-30 pages.. sometimes much more. We analyze all of the patients problems and make treatment reccomendations. We then have to write about the efficacy, safety, cost and covienience of every drug possible that can be used to treat each disease state. Its like a super soap note. We then have to present it in front of one faculty memeber and 9 other students. It was nerve racking. I'm sure you'll do fine though.. good luck!

 

[Stephie]

Good luck on your defense. I'm sure it will go well!

 

[WVUPharm2007]

I have to do that every rotation when I give a presentation.

 

[greatdeals225]

so, what do you guys have to do? just give feedback on your rotations?

 

[kellia]

Tomorrow is my verbal defense of my 4th year assignment and I'm getting nervous. I've done a zillion presentations, so that part doesn't bother me. After presenting, we are grilled for 10 minutes by 3 fellow students who have been assigned my topic for questions and then 10 minutes by faculty and guest pharmacists.

At least they let us work in groups of 3, so I won't be up there alone. It's not as bad as defending a thesis. This is the reason they bring us back to school after rotations. They get a last crack at us.

So?? How'd it go??

 

[dgroulx]

It went pretty well. As WVU said, presentations and questions are done with every rotations. After 11 months of rotations, I was not worried about the presentation part. This was more of a test of our clinical knowledge. They could ask us about any medication and interactions, whether our case had that med or not. At this point, we're supposed to know stuff like that.

Before we went on rotations, we were assigned a disease state. While on rotations, we were supposed to find a patient with this disease state and get all their information. During spring break, the week after rotations and before returning to class, we were given the specifics on what to do. This was done to make sure our last spring break was stressful, and that we spent it doing research. I felt badly for the people who had to go the first week. I didn't go until week 2. My topic was hyperuricemia and gout.

On Wednesday, I have to be part of the questioning team for hypertension. That case will be posted today by noon, then I have to research and design questions to ask tomorrow morning. I leave for school at 7am today and won't get home until 4pm, so my evening will be spent doing research. Then midterms start next week. So much for relaxing during my last few weeks of school. I start work 2 days after graduation.🙁

 

[jemc2000]

Hey, haven't been around lately but I noticed this post. Where will you be working after graduation?

And CONGRATS on a job well done. 🙂

Michele

 

[imperial frog]

I've been assigned gout for presenting and hypertension for questions too next year. They must not mix it up too much. Got any advice for the gout part of it?

 

[KARM12]

Good luck! You'll do great. This is the end...congrats!

 

[Trancelucent1]

I have to do that every rotation when I give a presentation.

We have that too. I had 2 presentations this past week on my rotation and I had the same format. What Dana is talking about is what we do when we go back to campus for 8 weeks. It's part of one of our classes. We've had something similar to this in our 3rd year also. We had to write up Soape notes after interviewing patients and clinicians and then we had to defend them. That was a whole lot of fun too. All I know is that I'm glad I'm on rotations and out of the classroom for the next year!

 

[dgroulx]

I've been assigned gout for presenting and hypertension for questions too next year. They must not mix it up too much. Got any advice for the gout part of it?

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