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We're at the airport.
It is around 6 AM, heading out to Orlando for a conference.
What's going on guys?
Dr. J, medschoolinsiders.com.
In this video, I'm gonna go over what it's like to go to a conference and present your
research.
Now, generally speaking, whether you are a resident, a medical student or an undergrad,
if you perform research and submitted to a conference and it gets accepted for an oral
presentation, usually the program you are working with will fly you out.
So, I was very fortunate that one of my research projects got accepted to the ASPS Annual Meeting.
That's the American Society of Plastic Surgery and every fall they have a meeting someplace
in the United States.
This is the biggest Plastic Surgery conference and I was super excited to go and truly honored
to present there.
We are now in Orlando, just landed.
Got the rental car, heading to the hotel right now.
We got there kind of late, so we were not able to attend the opening ceremonies.
But I called it a night early that day since I had my presentation early the next morning.
So, Saturday morning, I was the second one to go, 7:05 A.M.
And because it was so early, not that many people actually showed up.
It was only about 25 to 30 people in the audience.
That's alright though, I stayed obviously the whole day and was able to support my colleagues,
my friends who I also did research with and learned about cutting-edge research in plastic
surgery.
So, my friend and I, we just finished presenting.
Back at the hotel room, just recharging a little bit before we head back.
Now, Sunday day 2, again went to the conference, got to support my fellow colleagues who were
presenting and also got to learn again about plastic surgery research.
I just attended a talk on social media for physicians.
It was actually really interesting to hear about because you don't really think about
doctors needing social media but - especially in plastic surgery, it's a very powerful tool
in your practice.
So, it was interesting to learn about how they suggest that plastic surgeons use it
and obviously with Med School Insiders, we have a lot of social media as well.
I also spent a little bit more time in the exhibit hall.
This is where companies come in and they show their products to Plastic Surgeons hoping
that they will use those products in their practices.
The hottest and most anticipated company during this meeting is a company called PolarityTE.
Now, these guys are completely changing the whole medicine game.
There was recently a Forbes article comparing them to the next Amazon or the next Tesla.
So what polarityTE is doing is actually regenerating tissue, like with like.
So, they can take a sample of the patient's skin and actually generate more tissue from
that.
It's really exciting stuff.
It's fully layered polarized tissue so there's skin with both epidermis and dermis and they're
going to be expanding this technology to other organ systems including bone, GI et cetera
et cetera.
So, truly exciting stuff.
Now, at their booth, they have this fun little game.
It's a virtual golfing game where you take a swing and the virtual golf ball, you know,
flies over to the hole.
It's a par three hole, so whoever can get closest to the hole on that one swing would
win a Macbook.
So I did a competition yesterday, it was for a MacBook.
I got 12 feet from the pin and here's the prize.
So, thank you PolarityTE, I'm really excited to have this.
And now, we're off to Disney!
Now, on Monday, which was day four, I took a vacation day.
And my significant other and I went to Disney World.
We spent the whole day there.
Pro tip, bring your own food.
A lot of people don't know this but Disney is actually totally fine with you bringing
in your own food to amusement parks.
Obviously you cannot bring alcohol but this is cheaper and a lot healthier than anything
you can get inside the park.
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Overall, that was a great day.
It was my first time in Disneyworld.
I had only been to Disneyland as a child.
So, really interesting being in a park like that as an adult.
The attention to detail is really impressive.
Fun, exhausting, long.
Props to the parents who do this for multiple days in a row.
I got hooked up for a half a day, but a good experience nonetheless.
Day five, Tuesday, headed back home, that's a wrap.
All right guys, we are back in California.
Made it safe and sound, had a great time in Orlando.
Overall, this is just another one of the many perks with doing research.
Research is itself very rewarding and very fun especially when you start having meaningful
results.
When you present your research at conferences, it is building up your resume, it's a networking
opportunity, you learn more about that field and cutting-edge research in that specialty.
And overall, it was a great experience.
I highly recommend it.
If you guys have any questions or comments about research, whether you're an undergrad
med student or resident, leave them down below.
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