Tips for first clinical?

[annap24]

Hey guys! I'm finishing up my third semester of PT school. We'll be doing our first 8 week clinical rotation this summer. I've been assigned to a hospital where I'll be primarily doing SNF and outpatient. Apparently my CI does a lot of dry needling and spinal manipulations, which we haven't covered yet. Will I be expected to actually do these, or just observe?

I'm super excited about starting to apply what I've learned so far. I'm also happy that I only go 4 days a week, but my hours are 6:30 am to 5 pm on my clinical days and it's an hour away so that will be fun haha.

Overall, any tips on your first clinical rotation would be great! Thanks. 🙂

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[jblil]

Go to post #101 of the following thread (first post on page 3), where I wrote down a few tips after doing my 1st clinical.
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/for-non-trads-things-i-wished-i-knew.990967/page-3

 

[annap24]

Go to post #101 of the following thread (first post on page 3), where I wrote down a few tips after doing my 1st clinical.
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/for-non-trads-things-i-wished-i-knew.990967/page-3

Thank you! I'll check it out. 🙂

 

[katelly]

I have a question about clinicals. Everyone keeps telling me, 'just make sure you get good clinicals,' but when I push to find out more about doing that it seems like it comes down to a lot of luck! How do you know a good clinical before you sign up for it...

 

[jblil]

Ask the folks who are in the classes above yours. There is always an informal grapevine and they will tell you what institutions and what CIs to avoid. My school has binders on all the clinical sites for the program, and we are encouraged to fill out a questionnaire at the end of our rotation to rate the sites. However, nobody would put down "avoid John Doe as a CI, he is incompetent/rude/has B.O./lazy, etc". Those things are only transmitted orally.

 

[annap24]

I have a question about clinicals. Everyone keeps telling me, 'just make sure you get good clinicals,' but when I push to find out more about doing that it seems like it comes down to a lot of luck! How do you know a good clinical before you sign up for it...

At my school, we don't get a choice on our first clinical. We can put our top 3 geographical preferences, but the clinics are randomly assigned. This is because our first clinical is SNF/Acute and there just aren't enough local sites for us to pick and choose.