u/HighStrungHabitat

I know it’s a lot of POCT’s, blood tests, EKG’s, documenting, phone calls, non stop multitasking, etc and I know you’ll have patients from all different age groups so I’m pretty overwhelmed to be starting out in a speciality that sees literally everything and everyone. I didn’t do an externship so I’m pretty much going in blind, they are working with me to kind of get me on my feet, I’m doing clinical training through the company so it esentionally is like an externship but im being paid for it, I’m shadowing an MA in different locations as well but they are all family med clinics.

For anyone who started out in family med or has worked in family med before you were well versed what do you wish you knew? What was the best advice you received and what helped you be more confident? I have had a lot of peoole point out that I seem very anxious and it’s just made me even more anxious. I don’t try to show it but I was the only one out of my group of new hires who didn’t do an externship so it was embarrassing and still is.

Guys, long story short my program was 4 months and in person classes was only once a week sometimes every other week for 3 hours. We only went over one or two clinical skills each time, so I was also never consistently practicing the same skills. For example, if I did an injection, we wouldn’t go over injections for another 3 weeks to a month. I’ve never even done an EKG, and so much of the “training” was online videos.

Anyway, I’ve been certified since January, I recently got hired at a family practice and have been going through origination for about a week. Orientation is a long process here, and consists of a lot of “class” type of work. Tests, going over clinical skills, demonstrating how to do x, y, z, EMR training, etc. I am no joke the most ill equipped person in the room every day. I’m the only one who hasn’t done an externship, and no one else there did such a short program. Mine was 4 months, everyone else’s was 9. I was low-key tricked into choosing the “cheaper” option when I was going through the financial assistance process (I didn’t get financial aid I’m not disclosing what it was for privacy reasons) I feel like I am a student not an employee simply refreshing my knowledge. One of the other girls went through the program at the school I was originally going to go to, and I’m just so mad I chose the “easy” way instead of prioritizing a program that would actually insure I was competent.

I feel like I don’t know anything, we had to demonstrate how to do a strep, flu, and mono test today and even with the instructions right in front of my face I froze up and panicked bc it’s becoming more and more real to me that I did not have a good education and I am not prepared to work with patients. I understand that maybe for some people, once a week classes over the course of 4 months would be fine, but I have adhd and it takes me more time to absorb information and understand things than the average person so it wasn’t really a good decision to do an excelerated program. Had we of had class two or 3 days in a row I think I would’ve been okay but like it was once a week and like I said we wasn’t going over the same things consistently so I couldn’t even make sure I knew how to do one skill before we were moving on to something else. There was no time for actual practice, it was you do it move on to next student you do it, be out by 1pm, it was very rushed, at least it felt that way.

I’m going to be talking to my clinical instructor who is going through orientation with us and explain the situation, we are actually encouraged to tell them if we feel like we are behind, that way they don’t think we’re prepared, put us out there and then we perform poorly and fhats exactly my fear, it’s hard to admit I’m not at the same level as my coworkers but I can’t risk potentially endangering patients.

I’m just wondering if anyone else has been in a similar situation where you went through a program and realized once you were hired that the education you got didn’t prepare you for the actual job? Cus that’s the thing, I felt fully prepared for the NHA exam, but wjen it comes to actually working as a medical assistant? I feel like I’m playing dress up:(

So I’m in a complicated situation apparently. I just had my first day for a family medicine office last Monday and I’m still in training, I haven’t worked with patients or even been at that specific clinic at all yet. However, I just found out today that the clinic I’ve always wanted to work at and my dream speciality (same organization), just posted an MA position. Mind you, I kept hoping that they would be hiring for months and they never were so the timing is just fantastic😑

Anyway, I wouldn’t want to apply and then look bad bc my manager finds out from someone other than me but I also don’t want to mention it like I’m assuming I’d even get an interview. I feel super discouraged and frustrated bc I don’t think I qualify for a transfer this early into the job but with this company they don’t leave positions open for very long so I also don’t want to miss the chance. Has anyone ever been in a similar situation? What should I do?

Y’all I feel like such an idiot I’m currently going through training for my first MA job and we are learning how to use epic. Everyone says it’s so easy which don’t get me wrong it is definitely designed very conveniently and it isn’t hard to navigate but my issue is remembering everything you have to click on and document when rooming patients bc epic does so many different things I can’t even keep up, I feel like this is unusual and I should be able to understand it. How long did it take y’all to learn how to use epic or any system similar on your own?

Im 23 and I just had my first driving lesson today I feel like I humiliated myself, I’m so terrified I’m going to hit someone that I break too much and too hard, I even get images in my head of a crash when I’m driving. After the lesson I was super sweaty and don’t feel well at all can someone please tell me it gets easier? I am especially struggling with turns.

Y’all, I’ve been watching driving videos on TikTok and YouTube and honestly the comments have made me feel so much more afraid, ashamed and dumb. These are videos of driving instructors teaching students and the comments are just flooded with people saying driving isn’t hard and people like that shouldn’t be on the road, etc. It’s really discouraging me bc I am a slow learner and I have a hard time with multi tasking. Knowing everyone in society looks down on people who don’t get the hang of driving right away just really scares me bc what if my instructor is like that too?

I’m almost 24 and I’ve never had a relationship it’s so humiliating, my sister is 5 years younger than me and has a bf. That’s something that hardly (f ever) is the case with people. I’ve been on two dates in my entire life, my first one being when I was 21. I’ve never even had a make out sesh, I had a quick peck on my first date and that was it the guy wanted to go further but I wasn’t attracted to him and he didn’t really have much of a personality either. I’m on dating apps but I don’t act desperate, I still make an effort tho. I just don’t get why it’s so hard… it’s one thing to still be a virgin at this age which is honestly embarrassing enough on it’s own, but to have never been in a relationship at all makes me feel almost in human, like I’m a different creature and living in a world I don’t belong in, I don’t know how to stop being insecure about it.