This has been a very busy year, with a lot of changes and new experiences and challenges. We are in the final days with internship ending July 31st.
It’s been a great pleasure to work with each of the wonderful individuals and seeing them grow and strengthen their clinical skills. Each has brought invaluable insight and knowledge and we appreciate all they have taught our department, hospital staff, and patients. We wish the new doctors all the best in where life takes them and hope they are successful in all their endeavors.
On August 6th, employees from several hospital disciplines were invited to the 2024 Case Study Presentations from our interns. At the beginning of internship year, each intern is assigned a patient whom has been identified as a challenge for our hospital treatment teams. These patient usually have had extensive psychological histories, some going back decades, and multiple admissions, not just at Western State, but other facilities as well. Interns use records to present comprehensive histories, therapy interventions, treatment and testing recommendations to the members of these patients’ treatments teams.
These presentations are enlightening for many who attended. For staff who had not been working at the hospital as long as patients who have been coming here, interns were able to provide detailed background information that is sometimes overlooked in relevance to how it plays a part in patients’ behaviors and illness. These presentations also opened up the discussion of what and how different avenues of therapy may be beneficial.
Many thanks to our interns and Dr. Kerri Anderson for working hard on these presentations. You did a fantastic job!
WKPIC’s website suffered a crash around the first of July, when a hosting server issue caused the loss of 4+ years of data and entries, as well as our backup material. While the website has been mostly restored, we are still working on photos, and the reconstruction of four years of blog posts will take some time.
We are dedicated to bringing back the hard work of interns from 2018-2022, so hopefully you will begin to be able to find these posts shortly, as we move them over from web archives.
Many congratulations to previous intern and current post-doctoral student Jennifer Román on the successful defense of her dissertation–including THREE HOURS of answering questions from an academic audience!!
