Orientation 2002
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Orientation at the Clinical Skills Center gives first year medical students an opportunity to learn how to take vital signs and to become familiar with the different equipment in the exam rooms. The students divide into groups. A senior medical students will demonstrate how to use the equipment or perform a task then the first year students will practice on each other.
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A
senior medical student shows the proper way to take a blood
pressure. Each student is then required to take a reading on anther
student. The readings will then be used during another exercise.
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The a first year students takes the blood pressure of a fellow student while a senior medical student observes. |
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The otoscope and ophthalmoscope are two of the instruments that are demonstrated. Here students are shown how to use the otoscope to examine an ear.
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Using
a stethoscope may seem fairly simple, but if you put the ear pieces
in backwards you won't hear anything. This senior shows the proper way.
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This page was last updated on April 25, 2003