Week 2: Anais

  On my second week of immersion, I was able to witness several more surgeries ad got to sit in on very interesting meetings. On Monday, I shadowed Dr.Fenster on to hysteroscopy surgeries conducted to remove and take biopsies of polyps.  One patient had a surprise cyst, which was also removed during the surgery.  Pei Wen and I also presented on our previous literature review from last week.  This meeting proved quite informative and Dr. Wolf suggested meeting again next week to further discuss the protocols and methods briefly mentioned during the meeting.  On Tuesday, I thus started off on creating my slides for the meeting.  On Wednesday, Pei Wen and I sat in on a few of Dr.Fenster’s meetings. The first meeting of the day was a meeting to discuss in detail steps toward applying for an IRB.  This meeting is particularly relevant for a project idea Dr. Fenster and Dr.Wolf are hoping to collaborate on.  The next meeting of the day was a fibroid center conference meeting, where several doctors and practitioners discussed particularly interesting fibroid cases.  Dr.Schiffman, was particularly helpful in describing and explaining each MRI presented and stoping to further elaborate on what they were talking about.  I found this session really cool and loved learning more about how patients are diagnosed and how doctors collaborate to decide how to best move forward with each case.  On Thursday, I continued to work on the presentation and joined in on a few meetings.  We had another meeting regarding Dr. Fenster and Dr. Wolf’s collaboration, this time they discussed prototyping and initial animal trials.  I ended the week by observing two more surgeries on Friday.  Specifically, they were laparoscopic hysterectomies.