Week 3

Week 3 BME Immersion

Third week at immersion has been amazing! It has been a perfect mixture of clinic work, surgeries, and research. The beginning of the week was concentrated in clinic work following Dr. Hu with his patients and attending to a robotic partial nephrectomy on Monday. Tuesday was a research day analyzing data for the upcoming project of Dr. Hu’s team. The project is based on the comparison of PIRADS first version and PIRADS second version. PIRADS is the software used for targeted prostate biopsy.  We were analyzing outcome of patients after radical prostatectomy by PIRADS 2V compared to PIRADS 1V outcomes. Wednesday was a robotic biopsy day with several cases following the targeted sites for biopsy. There were also 2 cases with extra risk areas that needed to be targeted besides the normal 12 points in the template. On Thursday, we met with the whole research team to talk about the progress of every research project and new ideas for upcoming ones. We had a FDA representative in the meeting who has been working with Dr. Hu and who will be guiding me through my project. We will be comparing five different FDA approved protocols for prostate focal ablation and future directions. I have a ton of research and reading to do on the field that will keep me entertained for a while!!! We closed the week on Friday with two amazing surgeries!  A prostatectomy and a partial nephrectomy!! I called a very nice week.