Different Types of Clinical Skills Workshop
Learning various clinical skills from clinical skills workshop. This is an excellent opportunity for students not only to learn and practice specific skills, but also to interact and make connections with local residencies. Here is some workshops that you may come across during your med life.
Casting/Splinting Workshop
Faculty and residents from local family medicine residency programs teach students about the discipline of sports medicine within Family Medicine, review indications for splinting and casting, and train students to apply short arm splints and casts. Students practice casting on each other in pairs or small groups.
Basic Suturing Workshop
Faculty and residents from the local family medicine residency programs teach students various suturing techniques. These techniques include simple and straight lacerations, deep layer closure, skin closures, and interrupted and mattress sutures. Students practice these skills on pigs’ feet.
Musculoskeletal Exam Skills Workshop
Faculty and residents from local family medicine residency programs review some anatomy and basic clinical exam skills, specifically for shoulder and knee exams. After the review, students get an opportunity to try out the exam with a partner while the physicians observe and provide feedback on these new techniques.
OB Skills Workshop
Faculty and residents from the local family medicine residency programs teach a variety of hands on skills including vacuum assisted delivery, forceps assisted delivery, episiotomy repair, and fetal heart tone auscultation.
EKG Workshop
Faculty and residents from local family medicine residency programs teach this workshop.
Students can learn the basics & review more advanced things, such as diagnoses of a prepared EKGs and the important treatment points for each case.
Casting/Splinting Workshop
Faculty and residents from local family medicine residency programs teach students about the discipline of sports medicine within Family Medicine, review indications for splinting and casting, and train students to apply short arm splints and casts. Students practice casting on each other in pairs or small groups.
Basic Suturing Workshop
Faculty and residents from the local family medicine residency programs teach students various suturing techniques. These techniques include simple and straight lacerations, deep layer closure, skin closures, and interrupted and mattress sutures. Students practice these skills on pigs’ feet.
Musculoskeletal Exam Skills Workshop
Faculty and residents from local family medicine residency programs review some anatomy and basic clinical exam skills, specifically for shoulder and knee exams. After the review, students get an opportunity to try out the exam with a partner while the physicians observe and provide feedback on these new techniques.
OB Skills Workshop
Faculty and residents from the local family medicine residency programs teach a variety of hands on skills including vacuum assisted delivery, forceps assisted delivery, episiotomy repair, and fetal heart tone auscultation.
EKG Workshop
Faculty and residents from local family medicine residency programs teach this workshop.
Students can learn the basics & review more advanced things, such as diagnoses of a prepared EKGs and the important treatment points for each case.
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