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Uh I'll be giving you some tips and I actually wanted to go through your mark scheme as well, which I found very useful last year um to give you a bit of a context. I did the BSC Pharmacology last year and I know that your ICA especially is very um it differs from pathway to pathway. So I'm just gonna give you a general overview and I think it's gonna be very useful to go through my own presentation to kind of put into context of what I'm saying. So in terms of the basics, very basics, so this is gonna be 15% of your module one, meaning that it's gonna be 4.5% of your overall BSC. But I think it's very important because the skills that you're gonna get out of this ICA too is directly gonna transfer into your final presentation of your BSC project, which has a much, much higher rating. So it's kind of like a practice round for you, but it's still summative and you do still need to get a good mark if you are aiming for a first. Um And the structure of it is you have 10 minutes to present whatever you prepared and whatever you submitted because you won't be able to change anything after you submit it. And do you have five minutes for Q and A which will be from the examiners? Only questions, um Questions will not be coming from the students. And a final thing I wanted to say was I'm not sure if it's still the same structure. But last year we had the phase two handbook, I think on Medlen, which had the task briefs, which essentially just goes through what you need to do. And then at the end, they have the mark scheme that is gonna be your Bible, whatever says on there, they just use it as a tick box to kind of mark your presentation on your Q and A. So just go with that and I took some kind of cos out of that um to kind of highlight a few things. The first one is, this is a critical synthesis and that's the main point here. So you're not going to present just one aspect from one point of view. It has to be kind of balanced argument. So you're gonna contradict yourself essentially constantly, you're gonna jump from one side to the other and then you're gonna stay at a certain point of view if that makes sense. So you're gonna discuss your arguments and your counterarguments and then say overall, this is my opinion and this is why and we're gonna we're, I'm talking very broad because I just saw this on Medlen as well that you, these are the things that your ICA two can be. So it can be a pitch for a research proposal, which essentially is still the same thing. You just need to make it a bit more, you just need to sell your point a bit more essentially. Uh But you're still discussing the arguments as well as the counterarguments. This doesn't mean you're only discussing the positives for sure. It could be a single paper, which I think was the case for Neuroscience last year where you're just discussing a single paper rather than kind of digging into the evidence yourself and trying to find out things new areas of research um and could be brand new. And then in this one, it might be useful to kind of include the application of this to the current proc practice the last two, which I've never kind of heard of of don't have an experience in. Um But let me just have a look at the last 10, the last one, I actually do know which is something that they don't have a consensus in, for instance, does bed actually lower blo BP, which was in one of our posters. I think it's, we don't have a final answer. And what you're trying to do is you're gonna dig into the evidence, find things that support yes and things that support. No. And then kind of um try to balance what both and sell your point in terms of where you sit in between the structure of your presentation again, was this is from Met Ler from that um task brief, but I kind of simplified it. So what you're gonna do is anything that you're gonna do out of whatever you have, whatever task you have you should need, you should build a background or a history of whatever you're gonna discuss. So I would go about by saying what it is, why is it important? And then if it's applicable, you can give your hypothesis from the very beginning or your research question. So what you're gonna be discussing very specifically and I would go by first discussing things or explaining things in a general term and then kind of narrowing it down, for instance, you can discuss a condition what it is generally and then you can discuss the management and then you can go go down to the particular drug that you wanna discuss and then you go into your evidence. Um And this is the in depth exploration of your topic region. Um And then your, like I said, many times, you need to have your arguments and your counterarguments, which are very important. And this kind of covers a critical approach, but under critical, I would just at one point that you're not just discussing your arguments and counterarguments, but you also need to examine the study that you're looking into. So you need to discuss the cohort, you need to the sample size, the, any sort of bias that you might have noticed any sort of like robustness issue, reliability issue that might come up and to be completely honest A I does this really well. So obviously I'm not for copying and pasting from A I and everything, but you definitely do need to know how to use Chat GT or any sort of A I that you're using. There's one that we commonly use, which was Chat P DFI. Think where it reads the PDF that you upload and just answers the questions based on whatever you uploaded. So you can upload your research papers and everything and just find the answers you're looking for very quickly. Um But make sure you double check, actually triple check, whatever A I tells you, make sure it's actually a valid point. Um And at the end, you need to, when you finish your 10 minutes, the examiners need to be able to tell what your clear opinion is, where you're sitting. But in a way that you're a well rounded person and you kind of see everything, both sides, but you still sit at a certain point. Now, I'm gonna talk a lot about my experience because like I said, I can't make this specific to any sort of pathway. What we had was we had a case. Um, a condition given to uh every student and then we would go, we would kind of look into the evidence behind the management of that particular condition, particularly the pharmacological management. And then that will, that was our presentation. So we would present the pharmacological management of a particular condition which is broad on its own. So you kind of need to pick your own topic and what you're gonna dive into. So what I did was once the condition was published, uh once it was, yeah, once it was published, my condition was systemic lupus. So I spent two days around two days, kind of building background knowledge. And this involved literally just watching osmosis videos reminding myself going back to the year free notes, reminding myself of the condition what it was, how it presents. How do we manage it? B MJ. Best practice essentially. And then I spent 2 to 3 days reading as many papers as I could find and kind of taking notes on each one of them. And I did this by having the paper in front of me. And then I would have a notepad or a word document, write the author's name and next to it, write tiny little notes. So the things that kind of popped up. So their meth one sentence about their method, one sentence about their main strengths, one sentence weaknesses. And then kind of should I put in this presentation or where, where it would go in the presentation? And then I spend a day actually looking through that word document that I prepared to see. OK. Which ones am I actually gonna include in this ten-minute presentation? Because you can, I would say maximum include four and I included four I think, and I ended up just presenting free on them in depth and one of them I kinda rushed through. So you need to pick really good ones and in a single case situation, you just need to pick your points. Um And then I spent extra one or two days, I would say diving into those papers, I actually printed them out. I read them thoroughly. I highlighted them and put them in A I, to be honest, I put them in A I to see, OK, what did they did? How did they did it? What were the results and the positives and negatives in terms of both the methods they use as well as the results. Essentially. Does this align with what we know out there, does this align with other evidence that we confined in PMD or anything? And then I have been II wrote here 2 to 3 days, but I think II spent a bit more just putting everything on a presentation. And this is really important because if you make it pretty, it's just gonna appear better. Let's say we got a lot of compliments from Shahak. I'm sure you know him uh which was our pharmacology lead about our presentation because it just looked so profe it didn't look professional, actually, it just looked pretty. Um And all we did was just use can, but it kind of makes them, it distracts them, essentially, it makes them just look at your presentation a bit more and less on the tiny little details that you included in them, which is always useful. No brief tips for your slides. The most important thing, make sure you're 100% confident with every single detail you include on your slides and whatever you say in your 10 minute presentation, because I will show you in a bit where what they asked me and it's ridiculous. They will ask the, the tiniest detail if it's on your slides. If you said anything about it, the Law ski, like I said, make your slides pretty and creative. I'll show you can and again my slides, we use a lot of like animations, just things popping out. One of my friends actually created an A I video of the patient. It's just, you know, we were just having fun with it. II strongly recommend that um make sure your arguments are balanced. So if you're putting in three strengths, make sure you put around three weaknesses, it doesn't need to be the exact same number and that's the whole point. It's just gonna, one of them is just gonna be a bit there, there needs to be a little bit of an imbalance for you to have an opinion. Um but make sure they're kind of you're addressing the major aspect of robustness, reliability and uh kind of feasibility in most of the situations. And yeah, you can prepare additional slides for your questions. So kind of included here as well, if you predict certain things and they will ask about the papers that you include things that you can't include in your presentation. Just put it as an additional slide, obviously run this through your uh lead for the year if it's allowed. Uh But it was allowed in most of them last year, most of the pathways. So just put everything you can put think of as an additional slide after your thank you slide. Just so when examiners ask you a question and you have a slide already prepared and you know what you're saying, it's very impressive. It will put you up there, do not read from the notes or the slides or the notes under the slides, anything like that because it's actually a point in um it's actually on your Mark scheme and it will put you lower than first, I believe, make eye contact, be confident if you don't know an answer, which most of us didn't. There wasn't a single person who answered all questions by heart. What you need to do is just stop and be like, be honest, I haven't looked into this in that much of detail, but I have read this and this and this and based on those, I believe it's this. So make assumptions, make kind of draw a conclusion of your own based on what you read, but make sure you share your thought process. So stop and be like, hmm I think based on this, especially if you put include other papers in your answering. So when you're answering your questions, if you say, oh based on something a ta this and this and that, it's very impressive. They it's a, it's again on your mark scheme, it will put you up into the first section, first class section because you know the field and practice your time management, they will 100% stop you at 10 minutes though. My, when I was practicing, II was always right on 10 minutes. And when I actually presented, I managed to finish it in nine minutes. So when you're there, if you're confident, you'll actually go faster than your practice rounds. However, if you know yourself and you are tempted to kind of stutter a bit more, um then make sure you allow yourself that time because they will stop you and that will be a mark. Now, this is your assessment criteria and I highlighted a few things for you. So let's first look at just below the first. So it needs to be logically structured. If you follow that structure that I just showed you, you're good significant of the material. If you appreciate it. If you say why you're presenting it, you're done ticked off awareness of appropriate supplementary materials, sound and critical treatment of the information. This is very important if you imagine if you don't do critically. So if you don't essentially say what's wrong with the studies, you're presenting, it puts you lower than 60 and then spoke without notes. Again, if you read from the notes, you're guaranteed to get below 6062. Sorry, if you hesitate a lot from what you're saying again, it will put you below 60. And if you don't, unfortunately, keep the time, so if you're not within that 10 minutes, then they have to stop you and you still have things to say, you're gonna get below 62. But let's say you practice really well. The first bits are really easy to do. It's just take off. If you practice as well, you will speak without notes with no hesitation and you will keep the time. Now, what will get you a very, very, very high mark. What they're looking for in 100% student is you need to be masterful in your communication. So your eye contact your confidence again, a tick. If you hold their attention to one of my friends, I was saying he was actually performing when he was presenting the presentation. It looks funny. It looks like why are you keeping this so much? But that's kind of what they want. They want you to like build a story and kind of engage them a lot. Um And if you keep to time without knows, we've kind of covered that. Um And this one actually has the exceptional answers and fluency. Now, realistically where you're gonna sit is in between these two and that is determined by, if you do everything that I showed in this slide, but you do a few more things from the very top one such as you're very good at communicating and you hold their attention, but you can't answer questions exceptionally, then you will sit in the first class somewhere in there. So that's pretty much it from the um official presentation. If you guys have a question, I can't see anything right now. But are there if there is anything on the chat or any questions? Please let me know if not, I will share my own presentation. Yeah, I don't think there's nothing in the chart at the moment. Um But yeah, obviously feel free to ask guys. Um But yeah, I think otherwise if you uh through your, your Yeah. OK. No worries. So I'll go for life. So like I said, I'll, I'll first do a bit of information about the cancer. So this is the free version of it. There's no need to get the premium, premium one. There are some like water um like some of the icons that you use can be premium. But honestly, if you're a bit cheeky about it, you can still use those. Um And you just get the water marks which are not even visible that much. So I used, I mainly just use these. So you go through a design, you type in any word that you want. So apparently I type some stupid things. But if I say uh medicine, they will, it will give me loads of different um templates that you can use. And then you can change every single color, every single icon. The elements are here, which are your icons. And these are the ones that I used. Um I was just doing a bowel thing. I, I'm not just randomly doing it just searching up for AP um But yeah, this is what you can do and I'll show you the, the actual kind of the impressive bit. So for this, this, this is just a very simple um animation that you can do in can and this is how I introduced my case. So I made up a person in my mind and I said, OK, Mary is presenting this in that way. Um And then I delved into sl E what it is again, oh Also another point, your bullet points technically should not be more than five words. So that's why I just put literally just words or here and there and then it's just your presentation. Anyway, your slide is just meant to be a visual representation of what you're saying. Um Sorry to interrupt. Uh N It was just a quick question in the chat, someone asking whether you turned your camera into a PDF uh before you uploaded it or if it was done on another format, like when it came to the actual assessment. Yeah. So um for us, they, they first wanted PDF and then we emailed them to say we majority of us did it in can. So what they wanted was you export this from here as powerpoint, which you can upload and we included the can link. So told us to do this because sometimes your, you should be aware that your animations might not work the same way on the powerpoint as it does in Can. So you just need to clarify that and just tell them, don't give them the option, just tell them I used can for my presentation even from now on, you can say I use can for my presentation. I used animations. I'm worried that it's not gonna transfer really well and then they can give you an advice on exactly what to do. But we ended up uploading both powerpoint and the PDF version of it with the, with the link that answers. So and where was I? Right? Again? Just how, which is a massive etiology. I just put some words um again, animations to explain the pathophysiology of it things. And then this, this is important that when you're giving your background, you focus on the things that you're gonna then discuss later on. So I was going to talk about the immune cells quite a lot. So I included them and made them a bit more prettier. I was talking about, I was gonna talk about the antibodies. So I talked a bit more about those. So you, you decide on what you want to say in your background and the signs and symptoms. I literally rush through this because it wasn't relevant to what I was gonna discuss. All right. Um OK, so I'll come into the evidence bit, which is here. So, what I did was I put three studies and I gave them a, um, kind of chronological order. Um, in each study, I included, this is a bit of a anomaly, but what I did was essentially this. So I included the strength as well as the weaknesses. And I know I'm contradicting myself by including a lot of words in these bullet points. They don't generally like it, but I just went with it anyway. Um, and I kind of try to balance each side if that makes sense. And I just put my, the findings of the study here. If they have a pretty table or a figure, a lot of my friends actually put a graph. Um, if you can create a graph, it looks even prettier. If there's a good graph, you can just put that and sign it properly. Um Right. Let me tell you what they asked in terms of questions. So I was preparing, I actually had these printed out the research papers that I presented and everything was highlighted. So I was ready for them to ask anything. First thing they asked was difference between specificity and sensitivity, which I was prepared for, that was absolutely fine. And you can kind of trap them by preparing for a certain point but not presenting it in your presentation, which is another sneaky way of kind of prompting them, prompting them to ask you something. So I just mentioned them briefly like I didn't know what they were. And then they asked me what is specific, what is sensitivity. The other thing they asked was the difference between anti DS DNA and anti Smith antibody, which was not even relevant cause I discussed the pharmacology behind this disease, but it was there, it was on my slide so fair enough to them. But they, they literally asked me the exact difference in terms of II also said one of them is against DNA double strandi. The other ones I forgot now what it was but against this protein and they were like, no, no, no, but structurally what are the differences between the two? It was a bit unfair, but it was on the slide. That's what I mean by 100% be confident of what's included. And then I kind of what I did was I made a history Mary and I introduced her and I kept coming back to her and then I kept putting it into real life. And this was the mark that got me the um engaging the audience and kind of getting their attention po point I diagnosed her with. And then I discussed, just mentioned the P management plan and then this is what I delved into like I make videos and again, make fun with it. And this is what I delved into my actual evidence. So brief description of what it is, I verbally explained the results. I didn't put a lot about the results. I quickly just mentioned them, discussed the strengths as well as weaknesses and then moves on to the second line, did the same thing. So I included one study per drug. Another good point here to mention is that so this is an RCT, I believe the rest. The other one was a systematic review if you are and this, we found this, like we found out about this very late. If somebody told us you need to, if you are discussing more than one publication, then you need to balance it out. You need to have some RCT S so kind of like low level evidence and some systematic reviews, high level evidence. So you need to have that pyramid which I'm sure you're aware of. You kind of need to touch different points. You can't just present your systematic reviews, that kind of um that is bad practice essentially because then it also gives you it's a bit of another sneaky way of doing things. It gives you the opportunity to show the examiners that you actually know how to critically analyze both types of evidence. And it gives you the point. Um You might have noticed that even though I only have a few studies, I have a lot of references and that's because it's really good to have your comparisons, but it puts you in a difficult position because you need to know every single um reference that you put in here. So they might say, oh, you're referred back and you compared it to this X study. Tell me about that one and the extra sl slides like I said or these. So I put the actual graphs from the papers. I put the details of the methods of the things that I mentioned. Put some like just titles of different um studies realistically, they didn't ask any of these. I did not go through my additional slides but they were still there if I needed them. So yeah, and this was the bibliography for that. You need to reference both your actual presentation as well as your um extra slides if that makes sense. Now, I think that's it for me. But I will have a look if there are any questions, I'm happy to answer anything you guys asked because we have the time. So let me just have a look. Are there, is there anything or uh what was your main pick back? Right. OK. I can pull it off actually, but I do remember it. So my feedback kind of l I got somewhere in between, like I said, I think I got 76 for this presentation. Um And my main feedback was the slides. So that was a really good, like that was the main thing that they said in terms of positives, the confidence, time management. Um And the, the kind of drawing conclusions in my answers. What I didn't do was I didn't answer all questions perfectly fine because like I said, the antidouble strand thing just didn't know, but I tried to draw a conclusion. So that was the main thing. Um Let me try a negative. Yeah, I don't, I think that was the main thing that kind of didn't get me to the top bit and then go to the lower one. But a lot of people struggle with time and then when you're answering the questions, actually just bullshitting essentially your way through it. That makes sense. Yeah. II can't see any more questions for now. So you guys feel free to put something in the chart otherwise um mag may if you're happy to, first of all. So first of all, thank you so much for that presentation. Um That was very useful for me personally and hopefully for everyone else as well. Um But yeah, mag, if you're happy to like put your short code in the, in the chart um for people to send emails that I think in case they think of something after. Oh yeah, definitely perfect. Thank you so much for that. Um Because yeah, do email me because I think when is your actual ac two? Uh So deadline will be this Friday. Um I think for most people and then presentations next week, although that that could could vary. So yeah, it's consolidation week at the moment. All right, fine. Well, then you guys will come up with more questions I think around like Wednesday time and do, please do feel free to ask more. Um Because like if you were a major cartoon aspect, would you focus on? Ok. They, they didn't want us to include cartoons. Um We just did, which got us a mark. But um it, I hope from what I understand from your question is like what aspect of the presentation you would make a cartoon of? And that could be anything you can make the drug fly from the sky like I did, you can do the pathophysiology which is very easy to do. Um because you have the icons in can you can make our patient bit of an animation? Um If that makes sense. But if you mean anything else by the cartoon, let me know. I don't think you can do things on a paper. II II don't, I actually think at that point it might be a bit unprofessional to do so unless the method, what I'm thinking now is unless your method is something a bit, um, something that you can show with a cartoon or an animation, which would be really nice and then you can discuss around that methods, the arguments that you have against the validity of that method that they used. Does that make sense? Yeah. Yeah. Tricky, er, tricky question if you haven't, um, I guess done it. But, um, yeah, I think that's fair enough. Um, Yeah, so if there's, if there's nothing else guys then um I think we'll wrap up. So, so, excuse me, if you wanna go over like anything, the recording should be uploaded. Um I think soon II asked the process of the med but if you come back to the same link, um link, you can go over um anything. Um but yeah, other than that, um again, uh thank you so much for speaking today. Um and, and can I have, I guess? Um, yeah, yeah, please email me if you have any questions and best of luck. Perfect. Thank you so much. Bye bye.