NightOwl Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Hi i am brand new PA and landed my first job at a family medicine clinic. I am very slow at figuring out what vaccine each peds patient need. Please let me know what tricks/tips you guys have for quickly determining vaccine needed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasip Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 Epocrates vaccination table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoelleK Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 since it updates so often... http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Febrifuge Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 No offense, but you do know it's okay to look stuff up, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted April 11, 2013 Moderator Share Posted April 11, 2013 No offense, but you do know it's okay to look stuff up, right? damn, you mean I didn't have to memorize harrisons, tintinalli, schwartz, and harriet lane?...well, there goes 5000 dollars of hypnosis down the drain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightOwl Posted April 14, 2013 Author Share Posted April 14, 2013 Yes i can look it up, but if u work in the real world where you are seeing high volume of pt..it is good to be quick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MediMike Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 I know many PAs who look things up (in a rather quick fashion), and from what I can gather Febri and EMED both work in the real world...soooo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingsquirrel Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 I saw my PCP on Friday and she had vaccination schedules (adult and pedi) posted right behind her computer monitor so she could see them as she typed/talked to patients. It's a pretty big clinic so I'm sure there's someone in charge of changing them all out when something gets updated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Febrifuge Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 My point was, new grads often wind up making things harder than they need to be, because they expect ridiculous things of themselves. Are there people who have the schedules memorized, and are able to rattle off the required shots at a two-year visit, for a child who missed the 3-month shots and was sick when the second varicella was supposed to be done? Sure there are -- and you might well become one of them, if you end up putting in enough hours working with the same information over and over, in slightly different situations. But it takes time, and most people don't think that way. Being exposed to information once, or even a handful of times, doesn't guarantee retention. That's not how learning works in adults (and actually not in all that many kids, really). You need to use information for it to be solidly ingrained. In the meantime, it's faster and more reliable to just look stuff up. Know how to use your tools. That's what makes someone a professional, or an expert. Not how much trivia they have memorized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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