Week 7:
Pop Culture
July 23, 2022 | The 7th week of my internship at Mayo Clinic was one for the books. Even though we patient charted and reviewed files for the majority of the week, it was the conversations we all had together that made this week one of the most memorable. Everyone in the reading room spent a full day explaining […]
Week 8:
Bumps in The Road
July 17, 2022 | It’s crazy to think that my time here is coming closer and closer to an end. It feels like it was just last week that I moved in and started working at the lab, but now I only have 2 or so weeks left! This week specifically has been all about starting the preliminary white […]
Week 6:
Score, Review, Chart, Repeat!
July 17, 2022 | This past week was entirely made up of scoring patient files and reviewing them. We also spent a lot of time patient charting through the medical software, Epic. Patient charting is an incredibly interesting process. I am particularly enjoying reading all of the different types of hallucinations patients have had due to their Charles Bonnet […]
Week 8:
Window to Wildlife
July 17, 2022 | After spending last week with my family, this week I got right back to the action here in St. Louis! After an office day on Monday, we got to work tracking the Forest Park turtles. This week we collected location data, performed a general health check and weighed each turtle. One of the turtle’s tracking signals […]
Week 6:
Adjusting to the Unexpected
July 16, 2022 | If I had to sum up this week in a few words, I would say it revolved around adjustment. The hypocretin project has been put in a temporary standstill for now, and the focus is now on the Charles Bonnet project, which is attempting to identify a link between Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS) and RSWA. […]
Week 7:
Resistance Is Greatest Just Before the Finish Line
July 16, 2022 | Things are going well, especially with the new co-worker that arrived last week. We have continued to find common ground over little things such as TV series and sports. She has partly taken over my job of analyzing surveys, which, under normal circumstances, I would have liked, but not this time because even though July […]
Week 5:
Exciting Shadowing and Disappointing Results
July 10, 2022 | The week consisted primarily of shadowing Dr. St. Louis in two different clinics. The first was in LaCrosse at a smaller Mayo clinic, where I saw primarily epilepsy-focused neurology cases. I was also able to shadow him in the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, where there were no real themes to the patients that came in […]
Week 6:
Newbie
July 9, 2022 | The title vaguely suggests that a new full-time employee arrived at Amazing Edibles this week. My new co-worker is friendly and easy to work with; on top of all that, she learns fairly quicker than others. I say this due to my observation that she actually enjoys being at work here, and catering is also […]
Week 5:
Hello, Wisconsin!
July 9, 2022 | That’s a wrap on Week 5! I can’t believe it’s already the half way point. I guess it must be true: time flies when you’re having fun! This week was packed with so many learning opportunities. We had another journal club gathering that was combined with lecture. The topic for this week was Charles Bonnet […]
Week 7:
Beginning of The End
July 9, 2022 | This week flew by! Because of the Fourth of July, we didn’t come back to work until Tuesday, which meant I spent most of the weekend on the beach (or at least attempted to). Like last week, storms have been popping up left and right almost every day, making it hard to get outside over […]