ammre
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Gynecological Teaching Assistant.
I just thought some of you might be interested in hearing about my new job.
I get the pleasure of teaching 3rd year med students how to do a gynecological exam, using my body as a teaching tool. For most of them this will be the first time ever looking at or working on a female body in this way. For pretty much all of them this will be the first time they've ever used a speculum, or see a cervix.
When I teach I get a room of 3 or 4 med students who have been prepped by the program facilitator on proper etiquette in the room with me. Then they are brought in and taught how to speak with the patient, using proper language and bedside manner, they are taughts the methods and we teach a patient empowerment model, which encourages the use of a mirror and lots of dialog to involve the patient in their own healthcare. The students are taught a proper breast exam and a proper pelvic exam. Each student will get to do the exams.
this teaching method is immensely valuable becasue it will prepare them for their lives as doctors. While they may not use everything we've taught, they will at least have it int heir back of ticks so if a method they are using isn't working they can switch. It is also extremely helpful when they first run into a situation like this with a patient, so that they are suprized and will know what to do.
Then I get to grade them during their OSCE (basically their final exam) which is interesting...
OSCE- The Med students have 10 minutes in each room to complete an exam. they have to hit upon certain checkpoints, show proper bedside manner, use proper language, ask the necessary questions and conduct the physical exam.
The exam building has a center observation room where they record the exams and the personnel hang out on breaks and in between exams. Then there's 6 rooms on each side of the center observation room. From there, there's a cubby/hallway on each side of the exam rooms, that's where the student doctors enter and exit from and wait for their next exam.
For the OSCE there's 8 GTA's and some other patients from other standard patient groups. The first room is the pelvic room, there's 2 of these rooms, they mirror each other, so room 12 and room 1 were pelvic rooms. Each of those rooms had 2 GTA's One who would be the patient and one who would be taking notes on a check list. The next set of rooms (2 and 11) are the breast rooms. Each room has 2 GTAs in it, again one as the patient and one taking notes. I was in one of the breast rooms. A total of 28 student doctors came through the building. 14 of them went to my side and 14 went to the other side. The other GTA and I switched during long breaks so that she had 7 and I had 7.
So, 7 people touched my ta-ta's yesterday, and the most nerve wracking part was either pretending to be a patient, or sitting with the check list for the other 7 patients that touched my partner's ta-ta's. I thought it would be a big deal being examined over and over, but really the student doctors are much more nervous then I am, and the entire time my brain is trying to take notes on their techniques and methods.
Gynecological Teaching Assistant.
I just thought some of you might be interested in hearing about my new job.
I get the pleasure of teaching 3rd year med students how to do a gynecological exam, using my body as a teaching tool. For most of them this will be the first time ever looking at or working on a female body in this way. For pretty much all of them this will be the first time they've ever used a speculum, or see a cervix.
When I teach I get a room of 3 or 4 med students who have been prepped by the program facilitator on proper etiquette in the room with me. Then they are brought in and taught how to speak with the patient, using proper language and bedside manner, they are taughts the methods and we teach a patient empowerment model, which encourages the use of a mirror and lots of dialog to involve the patient in their own healthcare. The students are taught a proper breast exam and a proper pelvic exam. Each student will get to do the exams.
this teaching method is immensely valuable becasue it will prepare them for their lives as doctors. While they may not use everything we've taught, they will at least have it int heir back of ticks so if a method they are using isn't working they can switch. It is also extremely helpful when they first run into a situation like this with a patient, so that they are suprized and will know what to do.
Then I get to grade them during their OSCE (basically their final exam) which is interesting...
OSCE- The Med students have 10 minutes in each room to complete an exam. they have to hit upon certain checkpoints, show proper bedside manner, use proper language, ask the necessary questions and conduct the physical exam.
The exam building has a center observation room where they record the exams and the personnel hang out on breaks and in between exams. Then there's 6 rooms on each side of the center observation room. From there, there's a cubby/hallway on each side of the exam rooms, that's where the student doctors enter and exit from and wait for their next exam.
For the OSCE there's 8 GTA's and some other patients from other standard patient groups. The first room is the pelvic room, there's 2 of these rooms, they mirror each other, so room 12 and room 1 were pelvic rooms. Each of those rooms had 2 GTA's One who would be the patient and one who would be taking notes on a check list. The next set of rooms (2 and 11) are the breast rooms. Each room has 2 GTAs in it, again one as the patient and one taking notes. I was in one of the breast rooms. A total of 28 student doctors came through the building. 14 of them went to my side and 14 went to the other side. The other GTA and I switched during long breaks so that she had 7 and I had 7.
So, 7 people touched my ta-ta's yesterday, and the most nerve wracking part was either pretending to be a patient, or sitting with the check list for the other 7 patients that touched my partner's ta-ta's. I thought it would be a big deal being examined over and over, but really the student doctors are much more nervous then I am, and the entire time my brain is trying to take notes on their techniques and methods.
