June 14, 2008

Learning

I'm back to learning things, and not just stuff out of books.  The month of June we have workshops and lectures to prepare us for being in the hospital starting July.  Last week, we learned how to do pelvic, rectal, and testicular exams on real people.  I always wonder about the people who voluntarily subject themselves to ubernovice examiners.  I've heard they get paid $100/hr for an afternoon of pelvic exams, or $25 per poke for rectals.  I have to say, I personally price my orifices much higher than that!

2 comments:

TGTadventureNZ said...

If you get a real test done, like a pap smear it may be worth the $100 as those exams would be out of pocket if you don't have insurance. The rectal would have to pay a lot more, but aren't there a lot of starving med students looking for cash? You could look up the butt of your lab partner! Fun times.

Anonymous said...

100 per hour is not enough