Procedures
One Wednesday afternoon per month is dedicated to a workshop on some procedural skill. We utilize faculty experts and specialists from the community to teach us the skills we can practice in our own clinics on a day to day basis. Examples include:
Circumcisions
Vasectomies
Dilation and Curettage
Nexplanon placement and removal
IUD placement and removal
Lumbar puncture, thoracentesis, paracentesis.
Basic and advanced skin closures (aka plastics for family docs)
Nasopharyngoscopy
Endotracheal intubation
Dermoscopy
Joint injections
Biopsies
Central lines and venous access
We find ourselves poking chest tubes into racks of ribs, pretending breakfast sausages need their tips snipped, and draining all sorts of fluid out of all sorts of balloons. Generally speaking, it is a great, messy, and fundamentally irreplaceable time.
Messages from the Instructors
Photos from Previous Workshops
