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FA16 Immunization Module’s Updates

Peer Reviewed Case Study

You are now going to write a peer reviewed vaccination and immunization case study, review others' case studies, revise your case study for publication and sharing with other members of the group, and write a self-review of the way in which your work evolved through the peer review process.

Create a case study instance of a child or adult who may be in need of one or more vaccinations, in an advanced or developing society. Your case study could be a real one that you find in the medical literature, or on the web. Or it could by a hypothetical case that you have created in order to illustrate some important medical and human communication issues. Your case could be typical, or it could be unusual in some revealing ways.

You will recieve this request through the Creator Space in Scholar. You should have a "Notification" in the tab above, inviting you to join the project. If you need help navigating the Creator Space, you can refer to Section 3 of the Scholar Tutorials. Be sure to change the TITLE to reflect your Case Study Topic and use the STRUCTURE tool to organize your sections and headers.

In your case study:

Include a case description which is sufficiently detailed for your peer professional to be able to offer a well-informed second opinion.
Apply key concepts and define key concepts to interpret the case.
Recommend a course of medical action.
Script the way you are you going to put your immunization case to possibly-anxious parents.

Here is the peer review rubric:

Questions? Please add them to the Comments box below and we will help you find an answer!

By Adam P Rusch
Views: 247

Yes, the author can see the name of the reviewer.
- Adam P Rusch

Will the author be able to see that we are the reviewer? Because we can see the author of the case studies we are supposed to be reviewing
- Hannah Frudden

@Kaitlin - sorry, no, it can't be changed.
@Andrew - I'm not sure, let me look into it...
- Adam P Rusch

We can't leave peer reviews for blank case studies, what are we supposed to do?
- Andrew Hua

...Hi, I actually did the old prompt the day it was posted (this past Tuesday I believe). I checked today and it is still listed there, is there any way that could be changed so someone doesn't do the previous assignment?
- Kaitlin Weisshappel

More instructions from Dr. Tapping:

The case should be similar to that of the case studies textbook, but obviously shorter. The case should begin with the basic science background relevant to the case. This should be followed by a clinical scenario (pictures are helpful) involving presentation, clinical signs etc. The case should describe any actions, diagnosis and/or treatment(s) by the physician. The case should end with a short highlight of the lessons learned especially as they relate to either basic science and/or the CDC recommendations.

Length of the Case Study should be 600 - 1,000 words.

The case can illustrate any of the discussion topics:
- Active versus passive immunization
- Live versus inactivated vaccines
- Subunit, conjugate and synthetic vaccines
- Adjuvants in vaccine formulations
- Vaccine storage and handling
- Recent advances in vaccine technology
- Basis of immunologic memory
- Relative safety of vaccines
- Adverse reactions to vaccines
- Technological hurdles for generating and administering vaccines
- Social/public policy hurdles for generating and administering vaccines
- Timing/spacing of vaccinations in infants
- Timing/spacing of vaccinations in adults
- Vaccinating pregnant women
- Vaccinating immunosuppressed persons
- Contraindications to vaccination
- Invalid contraindications to vaccination
- Adam P Rusch

Here is the old prompt that you see in the Assignment Directions. As I said, you can treat this as if it's an example:

For this project you will be responding to a scenario that might be encountered by medical professionals engaged in immunization practices.

Scene - You have an office visit with a newborn child and her parents. The parents are not sure if they want their child to be vaccinated. They say to you:

We've heard a lot of negative things about vaccinations. Some people say that the vaccines are actually dangerous for children and filled with chemicals that could cause them harm. Other people say that vaccines are essentially intentionally giving your child an illness now so they can't catch it later.

Why can't we just wait to see if our child gets sick instead of giving them a vaccine now? Are vaccines dangerous? How do they work?

Your task is to write a response to these questions using the information we have covered in class. The Due Date listed here is for your first draft. If you need tutorials on how to use Scholar tools, press the Help button in the top right corner of this screen.
- Adam P Rusch

Okay, so I just realized that directions in the Case Study Assignment is wrong. It includes an old scenario that we had ultimately decided to replace with the assignment prompt included above. Please treat the prompt above as the assignment and only consider the old directions as a possible direction you could take (with a lot more details, of course).
- Adam P Rusch