Dear Students,

I hope you enjoyed the Bioblitz weekend!

If you do not see a grade assigned to your Hot Topic post on ePortfolios, it means that you have not addressed comments left for you below the post. The grade will be assigned when the post is corrected. Please accomplish this task as soon as possible.

To prepare your Hot Topic presentation, please follow instructions below (also available here). Your grade will be based on how well you address all the points.

Prepare an in-class presentation of approximately 10 minutes in which you:

  • Describe the healthcare innovation(s) discussed in your popular media report.
  • Introduce the source for your popular report and justify its and the author’s legitimacy
  • Justify the need for this particular healthcare innovation.
  • Compare your popular media report and the primary literature and try to assess the truthfulness of the popular media report. This is the most important part of the presentation. Consider the following:
    • Does the popular report seem to cover everything in the primary literature? Or did they only read the abstract/introduction/conclusion?
    • Does the popular report accurately reproduce data?
    • Is the data manipulated in any way for the popular report?
    • Does the popular report misread or misinterpret conclusions in order to make a more definitive statement than the primary literature?
    • Anything else relevant

Looking forward to hearing your presentations! Best wishes, Dr. Greer