August 2021 Bimonthly Blended Assessment

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Welcome to my blog. I am Keerthi Mallya, a 2nd year MBBS student. In this blog I will be answering to the questions of bimonthly blended assignment. The link for the assessment is given below:

https://medicinedepartment.blogspot.com/2021/08/medicine-paper-for-aug-2021-bimonthly.html?m=1

Q1) (Testing peer review competency in the active reader of this assignment) :

Please go through the long and short cases in the first link shared above and provide your critical appraisal of the captured data in terms of completeness, correctness and ability to provide useful leads to analyze the diagnostic and therapeutic uncertainties around the cases shared.

Please provide your peer review assessment on not only the the student's written case report but also the reading of the cases followed by the question answer session linked above in the video and share your thoughts around each answer by the student along with your qualitative insights into what was good or bad about the answer. 

A) The link to the given cases -
https://2018-21batchpgy3gmpracticals.blogspot.com/2021/08/18100006003-case-presentations.html?m=1

a) A brief review of the long case -
-The case was very well elucidated, and all the important points pertaining to the case were exhibited very well in the report. 
-the history analysis given in the report was very well elaborated
- the pictures displayed in the case report were explained adequately 
- the pegagogic questions detailed in the report were expanded upon very well
b) A brief review of the short case -



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