Pediatrics physical exam session

Today I got to play with children. We had a pediatrics physical exam session through Foundations of Doctoring, conveniently coupled with the pediatrics section in the Life Cycles block. This session included an interactive lecture teaching us about developmental milestones. Afterward, we had physical exam sessions with two different families, each led by a pediatrics resident.

This experience differed markedly from some of the exams I gave during my pediatrics elective at Warren Village - it's like playing with puppies when the kids think that the exam is pretend instead of real.

The second family was the highlight of the session: a five-year-old girl and four-year-old boy. We all introduced ourselves (seven students in the group), and when I introduced myself, the little girl said, "There's a boy named Tyson in my class!" She then proceeded to draw a picture of me examining her - and write a narrative of it - while the resident was teaching us about the physical exam.



As far as I can tell, this says: "Tiyson Tyson was taking me a doctur and I said thank you and then Leul [her brother] had a turn and Leul said thank you and it was for are nose." I was looking up her nose with the otoscope. And that's me holding either the otoscope or a reflex hammer.