There were simpler cases of dermoid, mucinous adenoma, renal obstruction. A great many twins. Apparently twining is very common in Myanmar. There was also a beautiful case of acrania at 26 weeks, a clear example that anencephaly is not the âend stage dissolution of the brain from acraniaâ as often reported, but an different entity.
Some student start to manipulate the transducer properly, but they feel a little overwhelmed with the amount of things to do.. find the image, freeze the image, lift the transducer, navigate the menus, measure the finding, review the report⌠explain to the patient the findingsâŚ
It will be interesting to see the progress by next year.
Dt Yin Yin Soe, the Director of the OB Gyn Dept is a perfect coordinator, reinforcing the information taught,
At the conclusion of the course we gave them a lot of homework to do: read the book of Alfred and Rabih, study the lectures on their cd, on the web answer case of the week.
We also prepared a spreadsheet on line where each one has her or his own tab to fill how many cases they have seen in the past month. The front spreadsheet will tabulate all the data.
Finally each has been assigned to make a 5 min presentation next year of either an interesting case, a difficult case they struggled with or a case in which they made a mistake, so we can all learn from it.
This was a very nice group of students and I am very thankful to the faculty, to Concordia (the local ultrasound machine distributor) and Mindray for they great support and sponsoring of the event.
Cheers from Chinatown in Myanmar! From left to right: Summer, Ya, Franti, Kim, Justin, Fede and Philippe