Medic Students!!!

[Lifeguards For Life]

No, not at all.


You need to get a 78% minimum (80% on final) to pass a test. If you get below that, you have to take a re-take. The original score sticks.

If you fail the re-take, you're dropped from the class, even if it's the first test you've failed.

In our course, you have to maintain an eighty percent in all classes. If you score below an eighty on any quiz, test, or exam, you must retake that exam within five days. The grade earned on the retake, will not inflate the students average, the retake only serves to determine whether that student is capable of retaining academic knowledge. If the student fails to meet the minimum requirements on the retake, supposedly they are dismissed from the course.

We had one firefighter in our class score a 68 percent on the midterm, and a 96 percent, reportedly on the P1 midtermh34r:

 

[Shishkabob]

Hmph... final is in a week and I haven't really studied at all for it since class got out.


But in all fairness, I never studied for any of my exams and I'm at the top of my class. Do I break tradition?!




Wednesday we're going over our old exams... should help a bit.

 

[exodus]

First day of medic program today. 50 or so hours of A&P starts today. And I just found out today my school is accredited :]

 

[NomadicMedic]

2nd quarter of Medic School starts today.

 

[Shishkabob]

Final exam tomorrow... 10 of us left to take it.


Anxious much?

 

[piranah]

i must say i feel left out now....lol

 

[Shishkabob]

Screw this. I can't sleep. I don't know if it's pre-exam nerves or the fact that I usually don't go to bed for another 3 hours anyhow.

 

[NomadicMedic]

This morning marks the first field shift of the new quarter. With luck I won't be a white cloud again.

 

[Shishkabob]

89.8%!! Woot.



We had one guy fail though, with a 78% (minimum was 80%) so only 9 of us are going to internship.

 

[exodus]

89.8%!! Woot.



We had one guy fail though, with a 78% (minimum was 80%) so only 9 of us are going to internship.

I thought you just said 78 was minimum?

 

[Lifeguards For Life]

I thought you just said 78 was minimum?

I think L said that to pass you need a 78% final grade in the course and a minimum 80% score on the Final

 

[Shishkabob]

78% for normal exams, 80% for final.

 

[NomadicMedic]

First tube in the field!

 

[EMTinNEPA]

IV play-by-play...

Case One: 35 year-old male in atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response.
20g missed right AC.
18g in left AC successful.

Case Two: 39 year-old female with chest pain, negative STEMI.
Got a flash in the left AC with a 20g, but then it blew.
Medic got the right AC.

Case Three: 76 year-old male with altered mental status of unclear etiology.
Got a flash in the left forearm with a 20g, but then it blew.
Medic could not establish access.

Case Four: 59 year-old male with chest pain, negative STEMI.
20g in right AC successful.

Case Five: 55 year-old male with respiratory distress.
22g in right hand successful.

Current standings: 3 out of 6 (50% success rate).

 

[EMTinNEPA]

UPDATE

Case Six: 38 year-old male, seizures
20g in right forearm

Current Standings: 4 out of 7 (57% success rate)

At least now I can say I've gotten more than I've missed!

 

[Shishkabob]

Is it me or are PHTLS scenarios more, well, hectic than the average medical and trauma scenario?

 

[gicts]

Halfway through clinicals, then on to ride time <_< Why can't time go faster?

 

[TransportJockey]

Gonna be looking into getting into another medic program after my move to CO in March. But I should be testing for I/85 in a few weeks, so that will help me a little.

 

[Shishkabob]

13 days till my internship starts.

Can't come fast enough

 

[Dominion]

Is it me or are PHTLS scenarios more, well, hectic than the average medical and trauma scenario?

It is...for a reason I would assume. I liked my PHTLS class.