Blended bimonthly assessment September 2020 results

Following are the links to the submitted assignments by the students (interns, UGs, PGs year 1 and year 2) for the September bimonthly assignment posted for summative assessment on 7/9/2020 here:https://medicinedepartment.blogspot.com/2020/09/medicine-blended-assessment-biweekly.html?m=1

and in the links below one can find that the summative has been also accompanied by a numerical formative assessment of their online learning portfolios using both verbal and non verbal cues. 

Interns from 2015 MBBS batch posted in the department of Medicine from 23/06/2020 to 22/09/2020:

https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/1ouy_gqzmCw82ammZSucemG-75qa6x9nvNi6FovJ2FYI/mobilebasic

PGY1s from the 2020 MD General Medicine batch 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pEGZsz3VH9yjE_lDVBQwi7BjbxKFdFVsD2gCux2SAa4/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=100497219830377837116

PGY2s from the 2019 MD General Medicine batch :

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11jjVEcnHNlfLpFbfU-eTybTRfp1LPn38NFjA3hbhTvGU/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=100497219830377837116

UGs 2016 batch:

https://virtualmedicalcases.blogspot.com/2020/09/medicine-blended-assessment-45-year-old.html

https://rhea9895.blogspot.com/2020/09/two-similar-cases-yet-very-different.html

https://caseopinionsbyrollno156.blogspot.com/2020/09/medicine-blended-assessment.html

https://chitrasrinivas.blogspot.com/2020/09/biweekly-clinical-case-assessment.html

http://shivani2401elogbookmedicine.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-curious-case-of-anasarca.html

The formative assessment has been divided into non-verbal which assesses their competency in procedural domains including empathic communication and body language and verbal which assesses their ability to communicate their work through their day to day E logs.

Most students have done reasonably in the formative assessment in both verbal and non verbal communication domains although a lot remains to be improved on. 

Most students haven't done well at all in the summative assessment and many have not only plagiarised blatantly from articles on the internet (inspite of express instructions on how not to resort to that) but also copy pasted from each other's log books. Some of the top UG students have predictably done well on all fronts including avoidance of plagiarism. 

Medicine paper for October 2020 first week of blended assessment bimonthly

Answer all questions                                                      

Max Marks: 100 

Submit by:                                

Date: 7/10/2020 9:00 AM 

Below is an online formal question paper to be answered online using all available resources at your online disposal over a period of days and E logged in a manner demonstrated by past examinees in the link here https://medicinedepartment.blogspot.com/2020/09/blended-bimonthly-assessment-september.html?m=1

Please go through the patient data in the links below:

"57 year old man with jaundice, pedal edema and abdominal distension since three years and bleeding gums since three days"

https://swathibogari158.blogspot.com/2020/09/chronic-decompensated-liver-disease.html

1) What is the reason for this patient's ascites? 

2) Why did the patient develop bipedal lymphedema? What was the reason for the recurrent blebs and ulcerations and cellulitis in his lower limbs?  

3) What was the reason for his asterixis and constructional apraxia and what was done by the treating team to address that?  

4) What was the efficacy of each treatment intervention used for this patient? Identify the over and under diagnosis and over and under treatment issues in the management of this patient. 

A 54 year old male with cough,abdominal tightness,pedal edema and diarrhea.

https://sainiharika469.blogspot.com/2020/09/hello-everyone.html?m=1

1) Why were his antitubercular therapy stopped soon after his current admission? Was he symptomatic for ATT induced hepatitis? Was the method planned for restarting antitubercular therapy after a gap of few days appropriate? What evidence is this approach supported by? 

2) What were the investigational findings confirming the diagnosis of pulmonary TB in this man? 

3) What was the cause of his ascites?

4) What are the efficacy of each intervention mentioned in his treatment plan and identify the over and under diagnosis as well as over and under treatment issues in it. 

47 year old man with bipedal edema since one year and abdominal distension since one month

https://sushma29.blogspot.com/2020/09/ascites-secondary-to-nephrotic-syndrome.html?m=1

1) What will be your further approach toward managing this patient of nephrotic syndrome? How will you establish the cause for his nephrotic syndrome? 

2) What are the pros and cons of getting a renal biopsy for him? Will it really meet his actual requirements that can put him on the road to recovery?

Dissertation plan activity with post graduate students from all departments

Going by our learning from past experience in the thesis committee, this time we need to ensure that their thesis topic selection:

a) contains a proper problem statement, study design and expected outcomes and finally a title, which reflects all of that.

b) serves as a valuable tool to solve patient problems that the students encounter in their regular workflow 

c) enables them to develop different publishable findings from their thesis 

 d) does not become a burden on them making them resort to unethical practices. 

We are looking forward to developing the thesis topics of this current first year batch through a blended discussion with each one of them along with their esteemed faculty before it becomes too late for their protocol submission.

We have asked each thesis protocol going candidate to 

start sharing their initial thoughts on their own thesis plan in the online whatsapp group created specially for that purpose and encouraged them to just share enough that can be easily read in a text message and we shall collectively try to build on it conversationally. 

One of the problems with whatsapp conversations is that there is currently no scope to create a separate thread for each one of their thesis. 

To circumvent that we are asking them to put their preliminary thoughts into their blog and share the link and paste it with each one of their messages and keep adding the related conversations to it so that all the inputs related to their thesis gets archived in their own blog. 

The blog post here is a quick demo to produce a link that can be emulated by them in their text messages. 

Medicine blended assessment biweekly

Answer all questions                                                      

Max Marks: 100 

Submit by:                                

Date: 7/9/2020 9:00 AM 

Below is an online formal question paper to be answered online using all available resources at your online disposal over a period of two days and E logged in a manner demonstrated by past examinees in the link below and the link to your E logged answers shared in the same platform where you obtained the current link that you are viewing. 

Please go through the patient data in the links below:

1)Patient data collected and logged by intern Dr Alekya. 

45 yr old lady who is a housewife and had DM 2 since 5yrs and HTN since 1yr. She  was apparently normal 6months back,used to develop pedal edema on and off  aggravates on walking and relieves on taking rest for which she was taken to nalgonda hospital and the doctor had advised her to decrease the fluid intake and gave some medications.It was associated with shortness of breath grade 3.

5days back she had developed pedal edema which got progressed and developed abdominal distension,facial puffiness associated with decreased urine output,sob even at rest  and chest pain on right side, non radiating with intermittent palpitations.

More here: https://alekyatummala.blogspot.com/2020/09/45-yr-female-with-anasarca.html?m=1

1) What is your complete anatomic and etiologic diagnosis from the data available in the patient's online record linked above? (ignore the provisional diagnosis on admission mentioned in the case report)

2) What are the reasons for her:

Azotemia 

Anemia 

Hypoalbuminemia 

Acidosis 

3) What was the rationale for her treatment plan detailed day wise in the record? 

Particularly mention rationale and  efficacy for some of the drugs administered such as oral and iv bicarbonate? When is iv or oral bicarbonate indicated and why is it contraindicated in certain situations? 

4) What was the indication for dialysing her and what was the crucial factor that led to the decision to dialyze her on the third day of admission? 

5) What are the other factors other than diabetes and hypertension that led to her current condition? 

6) What are the expected outcomes in this patient? Compare the outcomes of similar patients globally and share your summary with reference links. 

7) How and when would you evaluate her further for cardio renal HFpEF and what are the mechanisms of HFpEF in diabetic renal failure patients?

8) What are the efficacies over placebo for the available therapeutic options being provided to her for her anemia? 

What is the utility of tools like the CKD-AQ that assess the frequency, severity, and impact on daily activities of symptoms of anemia of CKD? Is Telegu among the 68 languages in which it is translated? 

10) What is the contribution of protein energy malnutrition to her severe hypoalbuminemia? What is the utility of tools such as SGA subjective global assessment in the evaluation of malnutrition in CRF patients? 

2) A similar patient data as above with diabetes and renal failure with metabolic acidosis and hypoalbuminemia logged by intern Dr Bhavya here https://bhavyayammanuru.blogspot.com/2020/09/aki-secondary-to-uti.html?m=1

Please comment on the differences in the diagnosis, therapy and outcomes in both these two patients. 

Would you agree with the provisional diagnosis shared for this  58 M in the online case report linked above?

What are the findings in the ultrasound of both kidneys? How do you explain those findings? Would it explain the etiology for his renal failure? 

Please feel free to review the literature online before answering the above questions but take care not to plagiarise any of that literature while answering these questions. One can quote only one to two lines maximum from the reference literature and the references and links should be shared along with the quotes or paraphrased information derived from the referenced literature. 

Please check out some active learning discussion around answering this case based question format as well as avoiding plagiarism here https://medicinedepartment.blogspot.com/2020/05/frequently-asked-questions-around-case.html?m=1

Please check out these links to few answers in the past in E log books from our other students around different set of questions:

https://medcases.blogspot.com/2020/05/heart-failure-2.html?m=1

https://virtualmedicalcases.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-dark-side-of-depression.html?m=1

https://caseopinionsbyrollno156.blogspot.com/2020/05/trio-of-paraparesis-cases.html?m=1

For a past online question paper in a patient centered clinical problem solving version please check the link below:

https://medicinedepartment.blogspot.com/2020/01/patient-centered-questions-for.html?m=1

Virtual case bank Dermatology

 70yr Male patient came to opd with c/o lesion associated with itching all over the body since 20days.

Online case record by Dr Deepika Parmar here 

https://pamardeepika24.blogspot.com/2020/08/this-is-online-e-log-book-to-discuss.html?m=1

Offline case presentation by Dr Nikita here 

https://youtu.be/_x5gGPyVQVM

Virtual case bank Rheumatology

 40 year old woman  came to opd with c/o bilateral swelling of lower limbs since 6 months, Shortness of breath since 6 months,joint pains since 4 months, and facial puffiness since one week, decreased urine output since 2 days.

https://sai1120.blogspot.com/2020/08/autoimmune-case.html

Offline case presentation 

https://youtu.be/xqDhMJw8Clw

Medical cognition research and CBBLE timeline 1

Medical cognition is an area of research made popular since this 1998 paper by Vimla Patel as a further development in the field of Medical Informatics particularly to "examine human-computer interaction in medical contexts and computer-mediated collaborative processes."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC61330/

It was a pleasure getting to know Prof Vimla since 2008 virtually through existing human computer interactive interfaces for social collaboration aka email groups and social media especially through her association with a National body that was developed to further medical Informatics research in India. 

While the above paper used illustrations that were meant to be generalizable as per the prevailing paradigm there was another requirement in "medical cognition" that was evolving and waiting for quite a while having been addressed by other systems of medicine that didn't remain mainstream and that was around "answering multidimensional information needs" in individual patients and this was in someways a harbinger of developing a "case based blended learning ecosystem" aka CBBLE (pronounced "cable") that represented another pathway in medical cognition.  

1998-99 CBBLE journey begins: With one CBBLE team member this began somewhere two decades back with the documentation of the case here:

https://www.giejournal.org/article/S0016-5107(00)70398-1/fulltext

The first author is currently the director of SGPGI, Lucknow as well as VC, KGMU, Lucknow. 

 2000: The same CBBLE team member changed institutes two decades back and shared one more case based experience from Pokhara, Nepal here:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11762624/

Slowly the realization dawned that individual case based experiences were different from the average data being  represented in Clinical trials where each of these individuals was just a number.

2002: Contrary to what trial data projected, every individual was unique and had unique life trajectories and it was found that medical students were best suited to unearthing these trajectories as documented here: https://www.eubios.info/EJ124/ej124j.htm

Some of these medical students who were now academic faculty, revisited this idea in the last CBBLE paper here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6163835/

2007: It was gradually becoming clearer that current evidence based medicine needed a more meaningful methodology to answer individual patient requirements here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17683292/

2008: And soon the first conceptual model for current CBBLE was shared here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19018905

It was called "user driven healthcare" UDHC and described a prevalent phenomenon evolving with the internet and the only difference with the later CBBLE appears to be that the term "blended learning" got added to the same process suggesting that the CBBLE had a strong component of offline connection and locality that was blended to requirements of online users. 

The CBBLE idea as a subset of the UDHC phenomenon was to build a Case based reasoning database that could offer any individual patient data a platform for obtaining comparisons between other individual patients who had similar data patterns and then see if near matches of individual trajectories would offer similar outcome trajectories in those group of patients and this was inspired by a seminal paper on case based reasoning linked here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15533257/

The pursuit of clinical problem solving using online user driven learning was a polymathic pluralistic activity and we derived a lot of lessons from other fields as illustrated in chapters of the UDHC book here 

https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/user-driven-learning-environment-botany/49258

2009: The model could be scaled to the last mile primary care and act as an efficient bridge between primary and tertiary, individual home, community collaborative center and academic institutions as proposed here:   https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19811603/

2010-2020--

Many such cases started getting logged by last mile workers in various parts of India particularly West Bengal and they were processed by a CBBLE that fed case based problems to a global forum for conversational learning as shared here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4117104/

The forum was made by global medical and engineering  students and there is more about them in the above article as well as in the UDHC book and journal issues here https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-user-driven-healthcare/41022 as well as their own web pages 

here: https://www.missionarogya.com/p/mission-and-vision.html?m=1

And here: blog.sbose.in/2012/08/ui-design-considerations-for-user.html?view=timeslide&m=1

2012 the team presented our work in TEDx Kolkata here https://youtu.be/76AVUQOK9LM

The Online links to some currently surviving patient records can be found in the online learning portfolios of the last mile worker users here below:

https://736146.blogspot.com/?m=1

(The number in the URL reflects the area pin code from where the last mile worker operates). 

https://ebpc-udhc-debasishacharjee.blogspot.com/?m=1

These last mile workers had begun a new genre of multilingual, deidentified online patient records that were partially structured and managed in most instances to convey individual patient requirements and their work was further shared globally in published case studies linked below:

The paper below is a collated depiction of cases emailed by some of our last mile workers and how their differently structured patient histories were still useful to develop a learning ecosystem between the offline patient and online healthcare learner and helper. 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265050836_Person-centered_healthcare_in_the_information_age_Experiences_from_a_user_driven_healthcare_network

The paper below is a case study that highlights our workflow of sharing "open access patient records with de-identified patient documentation such as doctors’ notes, diagnostic test results and the patient’s perspective" toward improving their outcomes along with students learning outcomes. 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6047727/

The original online patient record blog that was foundational to the published case study is accessible here: https://ebpc-udhc-debasishacharjee.blogspot.com/2017/07/38-year-old-woman-suffering-from-tb.html?m=1

With the steady progress of our last mile workers abilities to create web based logs of patient records the abilities of the medical students in our learning ecosystem remained at par by translating quite a few, perhaps 50-70 of these online patient records into journal publications accessible here https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Rakesh+Biswas+

2013 one of the activities of a team member who looked after the editorship of BMJ Case reports was to spread the word about case based learning and how every individual patient was an independent research project and below are links to some of the lectures delivered in 

Manipal http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec50421/001.htm

AMU http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec50661/001.htm

https://www.amu.ac.in/about3.jsp?did=9352

Bhopal PCOR 2014: http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec53081/001.htm

Bangalore 2015 http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec53671/002.htm

Delhi Banga Bhavan  2015 http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec53961/001.htm

2015 was particularly important as one medical college started funding research assistants who were more conversant with Hindi to take this work forward and below are some of their work in their multilingual online learning portfolios 

RA1: Hindi online patient record 

kg83797.blogspot.com/?m=0

RA2: Link to online patient logs:

https://www.blogger.com/profile/06851455361260935925

RA2: Link to one time assessment:

userdrivenhealthcare.blogspot.com/2016/03/assessment-of-patient-information_28.html?m=1

RA3: Link to one time assessment:

userdrivenhealthcare.blogspot.com/2016/03/assessment-of-patient-information_87.html?m=1

RA4: Link to online patient logs:

https://www.blogger.com/profile/14713506954507734603

RA4: Link to one time assessment:

userdrivenhealthcare.blogspot.com/2016/03/assessment-of-patient-information.html?m=1

RA5: Link to online patient logs:

https://www.blogger.com/profile/08543457215724518158

RA5: Link to one time assessment:

userdrivenhealthcare.blogspot.com/2016/03/experience-patients-are-interviewed-by.html?m=1

73 cases in this web based log book  from LNMCH courtesy, research assistant,  Kuldeep Gupta 

globaludhc09.blogspot.com/?m=0

46 cases in this web based log book  from LNMCH courtesy, research assistant,  Kuldeep Gupta

 http://globaludhc07.blogspot.com/?m=0

2016 end saw the migration to another beginning detailed in part 2 here http://medicinedepartment.blogspot.com/2021/06/evolution-of-model-forpatient-centered.html?m=1