Byebye MedEds!
Hi,
Our 6th year tutors (MedEds) have gone off to revise for their finals and left us now. They cooked us dinner on Wednesday night, introduced us to our House Officer on Thursday, and then yesterday we were all on our own! We now have 3 weeks to practise our examinations on patients and learn from the firm of doctors we've been assigned, before our GP placements and miniOSCEs (tests). Although I was initially part of a group of 6 students, the 'firm' we are atttached to, General Medical C1, actually consists of two separate firms of doctors, C1a and C1b. So we've split our group in half and I am with two other girls on C1a.
After a couple of lectures about learning on the wards, the three of us decided to bleep our House Officer and ask if we could have a look at some patients. He suggested three patients who were non-demented and well enough for us to examine, of which one was alseep and one had a visitor, so we were only able to see one. Our history-taking was a bit tricky because she was profoundly deaf but, when looking in her notes after examining her, we were pleased to find that we had correctly identified her heart murmur, enlarged heart and lung crackles. By then the House Officer was busy and couldn't think of anything else for us to do so we had a break and wrote up the case, just for practise. The morning was a good taster of the sort of thing we'll be doing for the next few weeks, as well as following ward rounds, and helping with any jobs like blood-taking and cannulation that we are allowed to.
Yesterday we had our first sponsored lunch, where companies such as the Medical Protection Society and Medical Defence Union feed us and give us free pens, tourniquets etc., and discounted books, in the hope that we will join them later on. There were also stalls where we could sign up to the various clinical medics' societies. I signed up to get more information about a few societies, for example Restart, which goes into local schools to teach children basic life support, and the Christain Medical Fellowship, which I've not really had time to get involved with before now.
And now I'm home for the weekend, so I'll let you know how MedEd-free clinical school continues next week!
Bye!
Our 6th year tutors (MedEds) have gone off to revise for their finals and left us now. They cooked us dinner on Wednesday night, introduced us to our House Officer on Thursday, and then yesterday we were all on our own! We now have 3 weeks to practise our examinations on patients and learn from the firm of doctors we've been assigned, before our GP placements and miniOSCEs (tests). Although I was initially part of a group of 6 students, the 'firm' we are atttached to, General Medical C1, actually consists of two separate firms of doctors, C1a and C1b. So we've split our group in half and I am with two other girls on C1a.
After a couple of lectures about learning on the wards, the three of us decided to bleep our House Officer and ask if we could have a look at some patients. He suggested three patients who were non-demented and well enough for us to examine, of which one was alseep and one had a visitor, so we were only able to see one. Our history-taking was a bit tricky because she was profoundly deaf but, when looking in her notes after examining her, we were pleased to find that we had correctly identified her heart murmur, enlarged heart and lung crackles. By then the House Officer was busy and couldn't think of anything else for us to do so we had a break and wrote up the case, just for practise. The morning was a good taster of the sort of thing we'll be doing for the next few weeks, as well as following ward rounds, and helping with any jobs like blood-taking and cannulation that we are allowed to.
Yesterday we had our first sponsored lunch, where companies such as the Medical Protection Society and Medical Defence Union feed us and give us free pens, tourniquets etc., and discounted books, in the hope that we will join them later on. There were also stalls where we could sign up to the various clinical medics' societies. I signed up to get more information about a few societies, for example Restart, which goes into local schools to teach children basic life support, and the Christain Medical Fellowship, which I've not really had time to get involved with before now.
And now I'm home for the weekend, so I'll let you know how MedEd-free clinical school continues next week!
Bye!
posted by Jane Davis @ 3:44 AM
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