To med students: When did you learn to take vitals?

[Compass]

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If you become an EMT, you can learn to take BPs with the dial upside down while the ambulance is going up and down driving down the road using only one hand on the pump and adjusting the valve. Whee.

 

[armybound]

If you become an EMT, you can learn to take BPs with the dial upside down while the ambulance is going up and down driving down the road using only one hand on the pump and adjusting the valve. Whee.

Ironically, I feel like I was better at BPs when I was an EMT than I am now. Maybe it's a concentration thing.. maybe it's my stethoscope.

 

[Compass]

We have some of those shoddy ears with two tubes which rub against each other and sound terrible. I had to fish out my 2-year old training stethoscope from when I took EMT because the ones on our ambulance had broken drums and everything.

 

[brickandlace]

i'm a m1. So far, we've learned how to take a history, vitals, heart/lung exam, upper extremity exam, deltoid injections, and blood draws. Between now and may we're learning heent, abdomen, lower extremity, and male/female gu exams.

We also have pretty frequent standardized patients as well as a house call program to hone our patient communication and h&p skills. In addition we have a summer preceptorship where we rotate through a doctor's office for 2 weeks.

cool.

 

[Siggy]

We have some of those shoddy ears with two tubes which rub against each other and sound terrible. I had to fish out my 2-year old training stethoscope from when I took EMT because the ones on our ambulance had broken drums and everything.