March 11, 2009
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I love my preceptorship :-)
So I’m taking a class for one of my major credits.
Basically, we’re all assigned to a doctor (of a range of specialties), and we follow him/her around ~10 hours a week (at least we’re supposed to). We’re supposed to identify a problem that they encounter in their work and fix it with an engineer’s perspective.After being switched around (because my other doctor was a bit busy and… yah haha I won’t say), I’ve been placed w/a REALLY awesome respectable doctor in the Hospital of Univ. of Pennsylvania’s Simulation lab. Med students and interns and even doctors go to the lab to practice procedures on mannequins before doing them on actual patients. I realized how important simulators are because it really gives them practice before going to real people and trying procedures that can be pretty hard to do.
Anywho, I was able to do a Lumbar puncture and thorocentesis on these mannequins. ‘Twas cool. I’m starting to love this major and what this school offers me
. Yay for awesome classes. I love awesome classes. College needs awesome classes. I learn much more in this setting than in a library stall sitting around all day reading and studying and doing problem sets. W00t for preceptorships!These are really cool photos of the two simulators we worked with this week. My camera broke
so I had to use my cell phone camera. Anyway, go bioengineering w00t w00t (never thought you’d hear me say this huh)?
Ain’t this cool?!
Comments (2)
nerd nerd =P
ahah jp. but it actually is kinda cool…this maniquine’s name has now being changed to bridget. lol nerd =P
I am so happy to finally hear that you like your major at UPenn. It’s very interesting what you wrote. I had no idea that med students practice on stimulators before actually doing surgery on real patients.