clinical procedures during internship

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Hi, I now realize that during my internship I've spent more time & energy worrying about the time I'll have left to study & the kind of residents I'll have to work with than focusing on the experience itself.
I have only 5 months left now & I want u tell me what are the must do clinical procedures that I shouldn't finish this year without doing regardless of the residency I'll go to. Thank u for ur experience & opinion.

 

[Blade28]

What type of internship are you doing?

It does matter somewhat what type of residency you're going into, but anyone can benefit from knowing how to place IVs, central lines, and arterial lines. Other procedures will depend on what field you're going into.

 

[Smurfette]

Truthfully, most things don't matter....you will be taught in residency.

I'm a surgery resident, and before residency, I never did a central line, arterial line, chest tube or even an ABG (respiratory would do ABGs at my med school's hospital). I had minimal IV/blood draw experience prior to internship (and in a county hospital, I learned fast), but had done a few intubations, NGTs, etc.

People would try and "teach me" how to suture as an intern, although I had plenty of unsupervised experience in medical school with all sorts of stitches and didn't need to be shown how to do a subcuticular or vertical mattress stitch.

I always just ask the new interns if they've done Procedure X before sending them off to do it. Sometimes they need to be shown, and sometimes a description of "how to" is all they need.

 

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Thank u guys, I think I just have to make use of these remaining 5 months. I intend to do pediatrics.