What is the meaning and etymology of scut from scut work? What is the origin of scut in scut work? According to Merriam-Webster, scut work: routine and often menial labor Probably from medical argot, scut meaning 'junior intern' First known use: circa 1
What is scut | Student Doctor Network What is scut to a medical student is different than what is scut to an intern resident, as nearly everything that a medical student does has some learning opportunity (at least the first few times you do it)
What is scutwork? | Student Doctor Network What does scutwork mean intail exactly????Scut work is a derogatory term used to describe the non-teaching labor that medical students and junior residents must do in order to be "part of the team" For example, running down labs xrays, changing dressing, starting IV lines, writing notes, and a whole lot of other stuff that really teaches you little medicine, but is a lot of busy work The
Scutwork | Student Doctor Network Scut is degrading work normally done by a paid hospital employee instead thrust upon the medical student because the medical student has no grounds for appeal and can fail if he does not comply Examples: running blood to the lab, calling pharmacies and booking appointments, taking ward vitals, doing ward IVs, setting up ward ECGs, retraction in the OR, wheeling patients around Fetching
What Is Scutwork? | Student Doctor Network For example: dictating a discharge summary is pure scut for the senior resident, but for the clerk it can be an educational experience, and therefore become "educational scut" The more tasks you can shift from "pure" to "educational" (by making the clerk or intern do it), the more you are maximizing the educational returns of the service!
ICU Rounding Template Scutsheet | Student Doctor Network I was wondering if any of you all had any good templates for rounding I'm starting my attending career in Pulm CC with critical care in the next couple of weeks, and was looking for some good templates which have been lacking online All I seem to find are neuro scut sheets, which don't
surgery scut sheet | Student Doctor Network Bump: modified scut sheet with improvements and additions These are pretty good -- there used to be something similar on Medfools I used when I was a 3rd year You absolutely want something like this while in med school
Scutsheets! | Student Doctor Network At this late date in my Teams rotation, I came across Medfools com's Downloads area yesterday and looked over the IM Scutsheets - which I liked better than my own Our CBCs are an upside-down tripod instead of a cross - where I am, we put down Hgb, Plt, WBC - so what's the fourth space for
Are NYC residencies as horrific malignant as people portray? And as others have pointed out this issue especially prominent and community programs that are nearly 100% IMGs but even at big name academic medical centers, be prepared to do more scut and work longer hours than in in a non-NYC program if you're doing IM or Surgery