Tip4 PhD4all: Weekly Progress Report

One of the things that I always do after meeting my supervisor, Paul is progress report. I meet him on our agreed day every Monday, usually around 1.30pm.

Is it so important to document the meeting? 
Yes. The document will be a very useful reference and also acts as a record of my discussion with Paul. Before I meet him for the next week, basically I will always refer back to the previous documented progress report and try to ensure that I reach all the targets for last week and if not, I need to standby with the reasons.

How to document that? 
This is my weekly progress report for your reference. Mine is slightly differ from the others, I think. Anyway, the template designs totally depend on you.The sentences highlighted in green needed further revision by me. Before the next meeting, I will double check that I have covered all the red points and once I have covered the points, I will change the red colour to black. This method is to make sure that I didn't miss what should I know and discuss with Paul.

Date: 14.11.2016		Day: Monday		Time: 1.30pm	Paul & me
1.     Overview of target Nov – Dec 2016	Didn’t reach the target for Capillary imaging.		1.     What happened if the ambulatory monitor didn’t work? 2.     What is the SOP for CPEX? 3.     The principle behind Capillary imaging 4.     What represent the reading on 24 hours BP monitor? 5.     Why should maintained more than 60 cycles/min? What are the meaning of other values V’02, PRE, etc? Afifah, please answer all these questions before next week. Whatever you do, try to think: 1.     What are the measurements for? 2.     How to do the measurement? 3.     How to relate with you PhD
2.     Literature review	Paul asked me about literature review. What did I read?		Please read on PE and echocardiography. Next week explain to Paul. – Read stress echo by Huck – find the gap Try to find your interest
3.     Echocardiography	What have you achieved??		You should be able to do parasternal view by next week Please give more focus as echocardiography will be your MAIN FOCUS.
4.     MRI	What have you achieved??		Understand the anatomy.

GOALS FOR ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY (Nov – Dec 2016)        

Parasternal (long axis)	21 Nov
Parasternal (short axis)	21 Nov
Apical	28 Nov
Subcostal	5 Dec
Suprasternal	5 Dec

GOALS FOR VISIT & STUDY ADMIN– TEPHRA                        

(Nov – Dec 2016)        

BOS (powerful online survey)	Now	√
Trialspark	4 Nov	√
TEPHRA email	4 Nov	√
Acuity	11 Nov
MRI safety	25 Nov	√

GCP Certificate	Nov	√
Honorary contract	Nov	√
Screening visit	1 Nov	√
BP Cuff monitor	2 Nov	√
Vicorder	4 Nov	√
10 minutes walk	4 Nov	√
Bio Impedance	4 Nov	√
Blood pipette	4 Nov	√
Capillary imaging	9 Nov
SPIRO	15 Nov
Retinal imaging	15 Nov
Venepuncture	Dec
Echocardiography	Dec/Jan
CPET	Dec

Where to save it?

Make a folder in google drive, Dropbox etc, whenever you are convenient. 

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