Radiology OSCE

So after last week's fabulous OSCE presentation by Cooke and Kim, I realized I had to step up my game a bit. Great job ladies!!

I have been putting the finishing touches on the OSCE, and hope that it is ready to go for tomorrow.

I finally have a QA topic...I am planning on updating the Exit Interview Survey the senior students fill out. It is currently just a few open-ended questions, so I am trying to figure out a way to ask more specific items in a way that they will be valuable and measurable also. If anyone has any ideas of questions they think would be beneficial, I am open for suggestions!

Time to get back to the OSCE, hope we can live up to last week's great presentation!! 

See everyone Monday! Wishing for sunshine!!

Spring finally???

Hello all,

So my surprise long weekend, of course, was just not long enough!! Here it is Sunday evening, and I am just beginning to sit down to my homework! Wherever does the time go?!? Always seems like when there is so much of it available, it leaves in big chunks!!

Anyway, I'm basking in the glow of the last few minutes of sunshine and happy because I got to play outside with my nephews today!! The absolute hilarity of watching a 20 month old search for easter eggs without understanding why he's doing it made me giggle all day. But, now it is time to buckle down and concentrate on these last few weeks.

After last week's craziness of getting all my presentations and papers done for other classes, this class was put on the back burner. I have worked on the OSCE a bit, but have not done anything yet for the QA assignment. Hoping a bright idea will just come to me! I'm excited to hear Kim and Cooke's OSCE layout tomorrow night (you'll be fabulous!) in the hopes it will solidify my thoughts and ideas. I need to round up a full set of radiographs before I can really establish all of my protocol and guidelines, but I am hoping to solidify that this week.

I am also putting the finishing touches on my Day Sheet so I can check that off the never ending "To-do list"!! Hope you all had a great Easter and a wonderful weekend! 

Only 4 weeks left!!

Counting down the weeks...

OK ladies...

I'm really having a hard time coming up with any GREAT ideas for the QA assignment.  I have a couple ideas, but nothing that I really think is good enough to spend my time on. I guess that means nothing has quite interested me enough to want to work on it yet. So...I really have nothing to report there. 

As far as the Clinic Day Sheet goes, I appreciate all your feedback on that! This is kind of fun to work on...I like the idea of having a very explicit scoring mechanism, so there is not a lot of wavering and thinking it though if you are the faculty member doing the grading. And also, the students will understand exactly what is expected from them, and there will be no question about why they did not get all the points if they didn't complete all the tasks they should have.

So, that brings us to the OSCE...I started out with a bang on this, but I feel like I'm really losing steam. I really appreciate all the feedback on this as well.  I have put it aside for a couple weeks, and now it is time to tackle it again.  I think that is what I will focus on this afternoon, so hopefully I will have a better idea of how this is going by the time we get to class tomorrow.

Hope you are all doing well! Just 5 weeks left until the end of the semester!! I feel like one of the undergrad students! Looking forward to the warm up later this week after the unwanted snow this morning! See you tomorrow!!