First day!
Aug. 20th, 2013 11:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pharming_in_koreaOur first day at the Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) is done! We survived! We were a bit apprehensive because we weren’t sure what to expect, but after the first day, we have a much better idea of the things we will be learning and experiencing in the next 6 weeks. It was a bit hectic trying to cram in all the different aspects of orientation (introduction of the rotation, introduction of every service covered, introduction of all the projects as well as introduction of the EMR used at SNUH), but we were given a good daily schedule of what to expect in the next 6 weeks we will be spending here.
We were introduced to everyone in the lab – so many new faces and names to remember! But everyone is super sweet and nice. It’s kindof funny how everyone in the lab was expecting us not to be able to speak Korean. Although once they learned we have some basic knowledge of Korean, they started talking very fast in Korean, including the medical terminology! I had a lot of trouble following some of what was being said at first, but I’m slowly starting to get used to the terminology.
Our time here will be spent divided among three different projects. The first project is writing (as much as possible within the time frame given) a systematic review between the three of us. We are to pick a topic, scan the literature, evaluate each study, and reach a consensus from the review.
The second project is a case presentation on each of the services we are on. For two weeks, Jason and Tae will be on the nephrology service (called IMN = internal medicine of nephrology) while a Korean pharmacy student (Min Oh) and I will be on the heme-onc (HO) service. After two weeks, we will switch services. For both of the services, pre-rounds meeting is at 8 AM, followed by three hours of rounds at the hospital. We will be following patients, and pick one to give an hour presentation on. Because we are on two different services, we will each do two case presentations in the next six weeks.
The third project is a presentation on UCSF and pharmacy school in the United States. This will be a great opportunity to exchange the differences between Korean and American pharmacy – or at least between SNUH and UCSF. We had several requests on specific topics to cover from people here. These topics include the admissions process as well as APPEs.
I mentioned that there were two services being covered; there’s actually a third service I didn’t mention earlier. The pharmacists here also cover kidney transplantation; however, there is not much pharmaceutical intervention involved in this service, especially for the students. Thus we will be focusing most of our clinical pharmacy energy on the IMN and HO services, while dappling occasionally in the renal transplant service.
As said before, the first day was pretty overwhelming, but the three of us are excited about embarking on this journey together. Through the projects, rounding on the services and other activities we will be doing, we are ready to learn everything we can about pharmacy in Korea in the next six weeks here!
-Lena
We were introduced to everyone in the lab – so many new faces and names to remember! But everyone is super sweet and nice. It’s kindof funny how everyone in the lab was expecting us not to be able to speak Korean. Although once they learned we have some basic knowledge of Korean, they started talking very fast in Korean, including the medical terminology! I had a lot of trouble following some of what was being said at first, but I’m slowly starting to get used to the terminology.
Our time here will be spent divided among three different projects. The first project is writing (as much as possible within the time frame given) a systematic review between the three of us. We are to pick a topic, scan the literature, evaluate each study, and reach a consensus from the review.
The second project is a case presentation on each of the services we are on. For two weeks, Jason and Tae will be on the nephrology service (called IMN = internal medicine of nephrology) while a Korean pharmacy student (Min Oh) and I will be on the heme-onc (HO) service. After two weeks, we will switch services. For both of the services, pre-rounds meeting is at 8 AM, followed by three hours of rounds at the hospital. We will be following patients, and pick one to give an hour presentation on. Because we are on two different services, we will each do two case presentations in the next six weeks.
The third project is a presentation on UCSF and pharmacy school in the United States. This will be a great opportunity to exchange the differences between Korean and American pharmacy – or at least between SNUH and UCSF. We had several requests on specific topics to cover from people here. These topics include the admissions process as well as APPEs.
I mentioned that there were two services being covered; there’s actually a third service I didn’t mention earlier. The pharmacists here also cover kidney transplantation; however, there is not much pharmaceutical intervention involved in this service, especially for the students. Thus we will be focusing most of our clinical pharmacy energy on the IMN and HO services, while dappling occasionally in the renal transplant service.
As said before, the first day was pretty overwhelming, but the three of us are excited about embarking on this journey together. Through the projects, rounding on the services and other activities we will be doing, we are ready to learn everything we can about pharmacy in Korea in the next six weeks here!
-Lena
