The presentation above is a presentation that I made for my Intro to Pharmacy class. The idea behind the project was to give a presentation that’s similar to a TED talk but centers around an area of pharmacy. The project itself was very open ended and that was my biggest issue at first because I didn’t really have an idea of what I wanted to present on so I had to go digging to find a topic. I eventually narrowed it down to something within psychiatric pharmacy because that’s the field of pharmacy I’m most interested in at the moment and I was able to find some interesting articles on Drug Induced Movement Disorders, which is what my presentation was about.
It was an interesting topic to present on because not a lot of kids in my class aren’t interested in psychiatric pharmacy and when they they think about it, they mainly only focus on depression or anxiety disorders whereas Drug Induced Movement Disorders are long-term side effects from taking antipsychotics which are mainly prescribed to those diagnosed with schizophrenia or biopolar disorder. I also had a interesting time researching it because it made me think about how the pharmacists of the future could combat the side effect, which is especially tricky because the side effect itself is caused by medication and doesn’t go away once you stop taking the medication.