It is unfortunate that nowadays that house officers do not do as much procedures as we used to. I think there is good and bad. In the bad old days we were barely supervised and it was through trial and error that we perfect out technique much to the detriment of patients. Nowadays there is better supervision and house officers are better rested but with so many of them many will never have the chance to do a procedure. So when it comes to their turn to assist many house officers are blur. What I attempt to do with the protocol is to provide a step-by-step guide to doing some basic procedures so even if the house officers have never seen the procedure before he or she will have a vague idea of the items needed and the basic steps and thus if they read and understand they will more likely to know what are the next steps so making them much more efficient assistants and soon operators themselves.
Unfortunately the paradigm has changed no longer can one solely depend on learning by accumulating experience as there are now so many house officers that there are not enough procedures to go round. We cannot expect the house officers to learn as we do instead we must shift our paradigm. Times have changed and in order to alleviate this problem there must be a combination of spoon-feeding and with the modern technology multimedia such as through blogs, Youtube and so on as well some good old-fashioned initiative and interest.
House officer procedure protocol
Nota bene: This blogpost and the procedure protocol do not constitute medical advice implicitly or explicitly. It is only for educational purposes.
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