Friday, December 19, 2014

Interdisciplinary Project

                        Interdisciplinary Project


This year for the interdisciplinary project they made attendance mandatory. Last year attendance was optional but this year everyone had to go so I really had to study and know everything I was doing.  For my interdisciplinary project my group and I researched and presented on Hemophilia. Hemophilia is a rare blood disorder where the blood doesn't produce enough clotting proteins so if someone gets a cut they will bleed for a longer time or won’t stop bleeding which can lead to major blood loss or death. We all decided to  split the work and have each of us study about one aspect about it so if anyone asked questions we would be able to answer. That way we wouldn't have to know everything about hemophilia. I was in charge of learning about treatment and cures for hemophilia. I had to learn if there was a cure (there isn't) and the treatments options which included the cost of the treatments, what the treatment does, and how they work. The treatment that I focused on most was replacement therapy which is a injection of the clotting proteins to give the person the clotting proteins they can’t produce themselves. Then we all made the power point and practiced presenting and when we presented in front of the panel we all felt nervous but  we did a pretty good job. 

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