Hello everyone! I hope that my blog post finds you well. My name is Ashlee Petranovich and I am currently in Murray, Kentucky attending Murray State University. While I am here on my internship I will be collaborating with four different programs that are focused...
This week I learned how to read an x-ray. I can identify each organ. I learned the difference between an x-ray, ct, and many different tests. I learned about what chemo is and how to do patient exams. I saw an orthopedic surgery where they...
This week I got a taste for different specialties like general. I saw two hernia repairs one endoscopic and one open. A closed procedure is sometimes preferable but it depends on the severity of the tear. The open hernia repair was much worse it had...
This week was very informative. I learned a lot, like how to read a Coronary angiogram. This is where a catheter is inserted into a major artery and threaded through the vessels to the heart. A dye is inserted and x-ray machines can see the...
Last week of my internship, I gave a presentation to some undergraduate students as well as some doctoral students to show them my research methods and the process before handing the project over to them. The presentation was moved up to Monday when is supposed to...
On the Monday of my last week, I started to build the inflatable-winged airplane. I cut the fuselage nose and tail as well as the v-tail pieces on the laser cutter and then built the body up. I decided to reinforce the fuselage by adding...
This week, I spent my time working on a presentation that I am supposed to give to a group of undergraduates before handing my research over to them. While researching, I have had to think about the reproducibility of my work, patterns, and methodology. I...
On Monday we implemented the motor into the middle piece of the plane. We felt this method of squishing the foam between two plates would be a sturdy way of binding the motor to foam. I designed and laser cut a piece of wood to...
This week was my final week at OSU and I did a lot of work involving RC planes such as building, designing, and flying. On Monday, we starting building the Biplane design that we had decided on last week. We started by building the fuselage, which...
This week was great! It was extremely productive and I got to break out of my usual work routine. To start of the week, I attended a meeting at the Institute of Behavioral Science, then in the middle of the week I attended another meeting...
Hello, everyone! Monday was a somewhat slow day. We did a lot of computer aided designing (CADing) for our solar cell box proto-type because our group leaders decided to use our design for the solar cell box and they needed a specific design outline for the...
Monday was a celebration for the other high schoolers' departure. We went to the airfield to shoot off the rockets we had made previously and to have a cookout. It was fun talking with the other kids and seeing everyone there. When we started...
This week was a wrap-up for everything in the program, it was a preparation for an upcoming science presentation I gave with Arturo my lab partner, we had some free days and I hung out more with my roommates visiting different parts of San Diego. Monday...
Hope you all are well! I’ve kept y’all waiting for long enough! Week 5 was my last week in Kentucky however I will be continuing my work into the school year with my professor. In terms of my project, without doing an official analysis we’ve...
This week was great. I have been in head and neck surgery for two weeks. I learned how to suture and read different scans. I was in a tumor resection of the ear where I saw all of the middle ear structure. They resected both...
