{"id":523,"date":"2015-02-22T21:45:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T02:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bi265-humananatomyatcolby\/?p=523"},"modified":"2015-02-25T10:47:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T15:47:17","slug":"arianne-thomas-my-janplan-experience-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bi265-humananatomyatcolby\/2015\/02\/22\/arianne-thomas-my-janplan-experience-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianne Thomas: My JanPlan Experience – pt. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This JanPlan gave me many unique opportunities, and I learned so much about the human body in so many different ways beyond just classroom lectures. We spent hours in lab studying models, histology slides, real bones, and a real pig heart. We went on \u201cfield trips\u201d to the art museum, where we identified different anatomical features in pieces of art, and to the athletic center, where we learned about our own heart rates, respiration, and metabolism. We completed a Grand Rounds project, which is where medical professionals present a patient\u2019s issues and treatment for the purpose of educating medical students as well as other doctors. We were given the opportunity to work with high schoolers interested in the sciences during a mentoring session where we were taught them a little bit about what we were studying in class and helped them plan out science fair project ideas.<\/p>\n

Some of my favorite learning experiences organized by Dr. Klepach was bringing in different speakers who talked to us about what they do in their day to day lives and the issues they seek to fix. The first speaker was Dr. Zak Nashed, a radiologist who specializes in peripheral artery disease. PAD is a circulation problem where arteries that supply blood to the extremities get clogged by the hardening of arteries, often times leading to a stroke or a heart attack. It can cause damage to the endothelial lining of the arteries, an increased permeability and adhesion of molecules, and if it goes untreated there could be a complete obstruction. One treatment option is medical management, where the risk factors could be modified (by exercising, losing weight, or stopping smoking) or a pharmacologic intervention could be used to regulate hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, or diabetes. Another treatment option, which Dr. Nashed specializes in, is interventional radiology through endovascular techniques. These are minimally invasive procedures where medical professionals use image guided tools to perform balloon angioplasty and place stents to open up narrowed arteries due to plaque build up. The third and most extreme treatment option is to perform a bypass graft or an amputation.<\/p>\n

The other speaker who came to talk to us was Dr. Peter Millard who is an epidemiologist, someone who studies causes and patterns of diseases in different populations. He talked to us about his work with diseases in Africa, making the interesting point that where he worked in Mozambique is about the same distance from Liberia as it is from New York, but in reality New York is a lot closer because there is more traffic between the two places. He explained that geographic proximity is different from travel patterns and the way disease spreads has a lot more to do with traffic than geographic proximity. He also talked about the prevalence of HIV across different parts of Africa, and possible correlation between these rates of HIV and circumcision. Another interesting aspect of epidemiology he talked about was the importance of disease prevention on economic and social levels.<\/p>\n

Having these speakers come in to talk with us was an integral part of my learning experience in the Anatomy and Physiology class because it opened my eyes to all the various aspects that the sciences, biology in particular, encompass. Having both parents working in the medical field has always fostered an interest in a profession in the medical field, but I have never had a concrete idea of what I specifically would like to do. These opportunities of having two very different speakers come talk to us made me more aware of the various directions my degree in biology can take me and interested in looking into different careers that I would have never thought about before.<\/p>\n

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