Clerkship Ready: Pediatrics
Clerkship Ready: Pediatrics
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Before Your First Day on the Wards
21 minutes Posted Jun 1, 2023 at 5:20 pm.
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  1. Before the Rotation
    1.  Reach out to your team..
    2. Understand what first day expectations are. 
    3. Peruse the patient list.
    4. Identify what study materials and resources will help you excel.
    5. Come ready to learn and have fun! 
  2. How to Pre-round
  1. Collect information on previous day and overnight events - includes talking with resident or night team, reading all notes from day prior
  2. Review all vitals from past day
  3. Review and calculate “Ins and Outs”
  4. Review all labs
  5. Check to see what medications, including PRN meds, your patient got
  6. Introduce yourself to patient and family - get their input on how patient is doing 
  7. Collect your thoughts, interpret your data, and formulate your assessment and plan for your presentation and note
  1. How to Present a Patient on the inpatient wards service
    1. Begin with one liner
    2. Subjective: interval and overnight events
    3. Any patient or caregiver concern or question noted when you prerounded
    4. Ins and Outs
    5. Vital signs
    6. Head-to-toe physical exam
    7. Labs, microbiology, and radiology
    8. Assessment one-liner
    9. Plan
  2. How to be an effective team member
    1. Touch base with a resident to run through your assessment and plan. 
    2. Show initiative
    3. Be honest and direct
    4. On rounds, listen to all patient presentations, not just your own
    5. Follow up on tasks for your patients (and other patients on the team) and make sure they are carried through
    6. Revisit your patients to keep them updated
    7. Write notes and ask for feedback on your notes




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