As interns, we presented case studies throughout the year during certain rotations, but each presentation was relatively small. Mostly, we presented on patients we'd followed through 2-3 weeks and only to the unit preceptors. Now that we're at the end of the year, all of the interns had to present a case study patient to the entire clinical nutrition staff. We each chose a patient to follow clinically and research. The information collected from our clinical assessments and literature searches were put into presentations and we each got a turn to share our work in meetings. Today was my turn to share and it went well! I am happy to have the presentation over, but it was a great experience. I chose a pediatric patient and found that research was very difficult to find because the condition treated in my patient is not well studied due to the low incidence and the whole pediatric population aspect which is just not well researched. I am still very happy with how things turned out and enjoyed working with this particular patient. I actually had 4 other case study patient options but none of them worked out-2 just didn't have research to back up my presentation, 1 died prior to nutrition support being started and 1 patient had a condition that had been presented in the past on multiple occasions and I wanted to be different. Check out my presentation below:
Chylothorax Case Study
Some of the staff attending the presentation. It's a bad picture, I know, sorry.
Some of the staff attending the presentation. It's a bad picture, I know, sorry.