November

November hours: 2, total hours: 5

This month, I helped make thanksgiving holiday cards for the children's hospital along with many in the class. It had been a long time since I had made arts and crafts and it was a refreshing change. It was a busy month as we had our cardiovascular test as well as the renal pharmacology test. Following these two tests, we went home for the Thanksgiving break. From next week on, I will go back to volunteering at the food pantry. 

The cardiovascular unit was highly interrelated with the previous ANS module. It was interesting learning about the acute and chronic treatments to arrhythmia as this is a problem we will start to face more often considering the advancements in health care allowing people to live longer. Treatment of heart failure and other cardiovascular issues such as Endocarditis will become more and more relevant with the progressively aging population. 

The renal pharmacology unit was also interrelated with the cardiovascular unit in that many of the medications we had covered such as thiazide diuretics are treatments for hypertension. The case base learning for the renal pharmacology unit was particularly useful in differentiating treatment methods for different situations and different people as well as combining the unit's lectures into one case study. It was also important to learn all the different classes of diuretics as well as their indications. We went on break for Thanksgiving after our renal pharmacology unit and are looking to move towards the GI unit as I am interested in learning about Liver physiology, hepatic clearance, and treatments for GI issues such as IBS and IBD. 


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