It seems not a week goes by that somebody isn't asking for a youtube link as a place to learn clinical medicine.
My favorites are how to deal with children and how a live birth works.
But there have been others like how to perform everything from IV starts, to patient assessment, to surgical skills.
Permit me to let you in on a little secret?
You cannot learn people skills, clinical skills, or any other "hands on" thing in which you need to participate on youtube and then actually be able to do it.
You must actually put your hands on or be a part of the event.
This is one of the reasons I am also against simulation labs. Anyone can perform any procedure on an overpriced doll expertly. Especially after a few times because that doll never changes.
Would you let somebody operate on you who only ever saw a procedure on TV?
Would you let somebody do something to you unsupervised they only ever did on a doll?
Now I will submit the general public might because they probably believe or trust it is not your first time and you learned it by watching a fictional medical TV show like House.
I realize this is the information age and digital information is easily and readily available.
But medicine is still one of those things that you have to do with your own hand.
Please? If you have want or need to learn something, seek out an expert to teach you.
Hiding in your room watching youtube is not the way to do it.
My favorites are how to deal with children and how a live birth works.
But there have been others like how to perform everything from IV starts, to patient assessment, to surgical skills.
Permit me to let you in on a little secret?
You cannot learn people skills, clinical skills, or any other "hands on" thing in which you need to participate on youtube and then actually be able to do it.
You must actually put your hands on or be a part of the event.
This is one of the reasons I am also against simulation labs. Anyone can perform any procedure on an overpriced doll expertly. Especially after a few times because that doll never changes.
Would you let somebody operate on you who only ever saw a procedure on TV?
Would you let somebody do something to you unsupervised they only ever did on a doll?
Now I will submit the general public might because they probably believe or trust it is not your first time and you learned it by watching a fictional medical TV show like House.
I realize this is the information age and digital information is easily and readily available.
But medicine is still one of those things that you have to do with your own hand.
Please? If you have want or need to learn something, seek out an expert to teach you.
Hiding in your room watching youtube is not the way to do it.