Week 7 & 8: "You Got the Juice Now"

This past week, I was presented with the opportunity to present my findings and observations to present the patient waiting room application to Dr. Robert Min, who is the Chair of Radiology at WCMC/New York Presbyterian Hospital.  Alongside Jae Mo Chang and Willy Leung, both students from Cornell, we discussed the need and goals for the application as well as the plans for a future pilot study.  Following the real-time application demonstration, Dr. Min was very interested in implementing the application right away.  It was exciting to get positive feedback as well as hear that the our findings are actually going to be implemented within the coming months.

In regards to the Breast Imaging Center, I was preparing to work on the other two projects by doing literature searches and writing literature summaries for the relevant journal articles that will be cited within the publications that I will help write when the data is fully analyzed.  The goal of the two projects are to calculate the percentage of magnetic clip migration out of the the total number of cases and calculate the percentage of recalls that are due to lack of prior images or baseline mammograms, respectively.

 Immersion Term is coming to a close and it has been a great summer to say the least.  I have had great times and memories that I will never forget.  The summer flew by so quick, but there were a lot of things that I accomplished.   All in all, I will be contributing to 3 publications that I will help write in the near future, plus I am waiting to hear back from a competition that we submitted a proposal for the patient waiting room application.  Fingers crossed that we are the top 3 finalists.  I have successfully traveled different burroughs of the city, survived adventures on the train, walked fast with the fast paced inhabitants, and now I'm feeling like a Georgia girl walking like New York.  It seems like an abundance of great things that I am looking forward to even though I have to leave the city behind- well, that is, for now.  In closing, it's time to wrap this blog up with homage to one of my favorite movies, Juice, for how I am feeling at the end of this program. Peace, love, and see you on the other side.  Ithaca, here I come....