KevinMD April 26, 2024
Last summer, I had the incredible opportunity to present a case report as a poster at the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium. As a premed student, this was exciting but also quite intimidating.
This meeting is a large national medical conference with about 1,500 attendees, including ophthalmologists of all career stages, many ophthalmology residents, and medical students interested in ophthalmology. I presented the case of a child who had experienced retinopathy as a side effect of an MEK inhibitor chemotherapeutic, a complication well-known in adults but rarely reported in children. The poster presenters at the conference were placed into groups of 10, divided by subspecialty/poster topic, with a moderator to ensure that presentations stayed within their time limits and to...
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