Slow for a Change
Oddly enough, I had a slow day at clinical. This was the first day since I have started this rotation that I didn’t stay fairly busy all day. I only logged 8 procedures, but I did pick up another master comp on the foot today. That brings my master comp total to 12, and 9 for this semester (out of the 22 required for the maximum grade.) I spent some time in clinical today studying for an upcoming test on spinal positioning. One of the 8 exams I had today was a c-spine, so I did get to practice that on a live patient. I’ll get to start my pre-comps on the spinal series after we have the test in lab, but I’m concerned that I won’t get to comp any of my spine routines in this orthopedic office. We do a lot of spine x-rays, but the obliques are not part of the standard routine, and those need to be part of the master comp. I’ll be back in a hospital during the second half of the semester, and I should be able to pick up those comps there without any trouble. There are a couple other exams I thought I would see in the orthopedic office that I haven’t seen yet. I haven’t had a clavicle, scapula, AC joints, toe, SI joints, elbow, forearm, humerus, or femur yet. Technically I did have a forearm, but I used it as my master comp for the pediatric upper extremity since the patient was 6-years old. Those are a little harder to come by, so I put it on a pediatric comp rather than a standard one.
I also haven’t had a chance to dig deeper into the problem I posted about yesterday. I’m gonna send an email to one of my instructors over the weekend and ask some of those questions so I can get a better understanding of what’s going on there…
I’ll be spending time this weekend preparing for my first test in the imaging class. I understand all the concepts very well, but there is a good bit of detail I need to prepare for…
Have a good weekend…
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