Medical School class?

Question

My wife and I were watching a medical TV show, and while the Dr. was explaining what the procedure he was going to perform, he was scrubbing something MAD out of his hands!

So we were wondering, what week in medical school do you actually learn how to properly scrub your hands so intensilly like?!

We assume it's not the first week or two, because they are still worming out those that just won't cut it.

Answer 1

When you start your clinical rotation in surgery.

Someone will show you, and then it's up to you to do it right. You get yelled at a lot for breaking scrub, and then you get to go out to the sink and do it again.

There's usually an older OR nurse around to terrify medical students. Sometimes the attending surgeon will notice a break in sterility and yell at you to go scrub again.

Most of us learn pretty quickly, but it's trial by fire.

(The weeding out process is done at medical school admission time. Most who enter med school graduate.)

Answer 2

Funny question:-) Here's your answer. There is no medical school "gut course" in scrubbing. During the third year of medical school people do what we call clinical rotations. Anyway, on the surgical rotations the operating room nurses teach you how to scrub, once. That's how it worked where I went to school.

Also, the medical student is ALWAYS instructed to scrub for a few minutes longer than everyone else, owing to the heirarchy of things. So if the medical drama shows the attending surgeon scrubbing longer than the med student or resident it is way off the mark.

Answer 3

Usually before you actually have to go into a sterile room or do a sterile procedure. You usually learn somewhere along the line before the third year clerkships, but it's not an official class or anything. Most of the first and second year of medical school is just bookwork, although there is some patient contact.

Answer 4

im in high school in allied healh and they have already taught our class how to do it........