Above error on AWU4 (first pic). I’m attempting to test a very simple shortcut (second pic). “Anki ADDS” is the name of the file in Notes. Notes app installed across all devices. Any ideas?
For schools that like a lot of service/volunteering, do they specifically want non-clinical volunteering or do they include clinical volunteering in what they’re looking for?
My job turned customer service. With a great deal of info in the post imma be as concise as possible. Asking for advice at the end.
This is my first clinical job - no previous clinical experience, training or certs. Hospital trained me for 5 weeks as a PCT. And then I had 5 shifts on my own.
And then suddenly they begin a "PCT Rounding Ambassador" position, and yesterday was my first time doing that. And now, frankly, I'm pissed. What's a PCT Rounding Ambassador, you may ask? Simply: they're optimizing their Press Ganey patient satisfaction scores specifically for one question on it that asks patients something like "did someone round on you every hour during your stay?" So now my job is to go around to every patient on the unit every hour and pretty much exactly say "hey it's me again just doing my hourly rounding, just wanted to see if there's anything I can do for you" - which 9/10 times is get them a drink. Why are they optimizing for this question? So the CFO increases our budget, as stated directly by management.
But last week when management offered this position to me, I said I was interested, but had a bunch to lay out on the table. I told them that as I'm currently in my mid-thirties - I absolutely cannot pursue anything less than what will maximize my chances of getting into medical school - which in regards to being a PCT at their hospital is specifically that I need to get into the Emergency Department (as a PCT). I told them that I'm interested in their Ambassador position but I need to keep building my clinical skills so that I'm marketable as a PCT to the ED.
In the above conversation management said "oh yeah you'll do all of the blood sugar checks on the floor". In the moment I was hesitant because they only mentioned blood sugar checks but at the same time I was flattered over their offer considering I've been an independent PCT for a total of 5 shifts. So I took their offer. Well, they scrapped even blood sugars yesterday half way through my first Ambassador shift. No sugars. No vitals. No EKGs or bladder scans. It was supposed to be a lot of call lights too - but as of mid-shift yesterday it's now less call lights, too. Just 12 hours of "hey I'm checking in again on this hourly round to see if you need anything..."
The only thing that gives me a glimmer of hope is that during that talk with management, I was told to apply to ED positions. Yesterday during lunch I went down to chat with ED Director and she said her PCTs don't do anything extra than what PCTs on our floor do and that it's "ED Hold" which I'm pretty sure means we have nothing to do with codes or physician interaction either. So it's looking like I may want to look at EDs beyond my hospital.
So, just tell them I don't want to do the Ambassador thing, right? I'm gonna be so for real with you (and sound completely full of myself saying this), but being a very attractive dude with the gift of gab who is absolutely adored by patients (plus the fact that none of the other PCTs want to do this either), they would absolutely hate it if I told them I changed my mind. Management is so dang excited about me doing it, and they all (from charge nurses to Unit Director) keep telling me how excited they are about me doing it.
What do I do? I hate this but I'm really really really considering a proposition: I'll do this for 2 months and help set the standard for how well they can optimize their dumb metric with this Ambassador position, if, and only if management will either write me a letter of recommendation (to EDs) or call around to EDs (ours, or others) to get me where I want to go. Because fetching ginger ales ain't it, dawg.
With a great deal of info in the post imma be as concise as possible. Asking for advice at the end.
This is my first clinical job - no previous clinical experience, training or certs. Hospital trained me for 5 weeks as a PCT. And then I had 5 shifts on my own.
And then suddenly they begin a "PCT Rounding Ambassador" position, and yesterday was my first time doing that. And now, frankly, I'm pissed. What's a PCT Rounding Ambassador, you may ask? Simply: they're optimizing their Press Ganey patient satisfaction scores specifically for one question on it that asks patients something like "did someone round on you every hour during your stay?" So now my job is to go around to every patient on the unit every hour and pretty much exactly say "hey it's me again just doing my hourly rounding, just wanted to see if there's anything I can do for you" - which 9/10 times is get them a drink. Why are they optimizing for this question? So the CFO increases our budget, as stated directly by management.
But last week when management offered this position to me, I said I was interested, but had a bunch to lay out on the table. I told them that as I'm currently in my mid-thirties - I absolutely cannot pursue anything less than what will maximize my chances of getting into medical school - which in regards to being a PCT at their hospital is specifically that I need to get into the Emergency Department (as a PCT). I told them that I'm interested in their Ambassador position but I need to keep building my clinical skills so that I'm marketable as a PCT to the ED.
In the above conversation management said "oh yeah you'll do all of the blood sugar checks on the floor". In the moment I was hesitant because they only mentioned blood sugar checks but at the same time I was flattered over their offer considering I've been an independent PCT for a total of 5 shifts. So I took their offer. Well, they scrapped even blood sugars yesterday half way through my first Ambassador shift. No sugars. No vitals. No EKGs or bladder scans. It was supposed to be a lot of call lights too - but as of mid-shift yesterday it's now less call lights, too. Just 12 hours of "hey I'm checking in again on this hourly round to see if you need anything..."
The only thing that gives me a glimmer of hope is that during that talk with management, I was told to apply to ED positions. Yesterday during lunch I went down to chat with ED Director and she said her PCTs don't do anything extra than what PCTs on our floor do and that it's "ED Hold" which I'm pretty sure means we have nothing to do with codes or physician interaction either. So it's looking like I may want to look at EDs beyond my hospital.
So, just tell them I don't want to do the Ambassador thing, right? I'm gonna be so for real with you (and sound completely full of myself saying this), but being a very attractive dude with the gift of gab who is absolutely adored by patients (plus the fact that none of the other PCTs want to do this either), they would absolutely hate it if I told them I changed my mind. Management is so dang excited about me doing it, and they all (from charge nurses to Unit Director) keep telling me how excited they are about me doing it.
What do I do? I hate this but I'm really really really considering a proposition: I'll do this for 2 months and help set the standard for how well they can optimize their dumb metric with this Ambassador position, if, and only if management will either write me a letter of recommendation (to EDs) or call around to EDs (ours, or others) to get me where I want to go. Because fetching ginger ales ain't it, dawg.
Very little Patient Care Tech (PCT) experience but will be helping in the ED soon. How can I be the best Tech possible?
Very little Patient Care Tech (PCT) experience but will be helping in the ED soon. How can I be the best Tech possible?
For Patient Care Techs (PCT) I’m wondering what higher (or higher-ish) level tasks - like inserting/removing IVs, inserting/removing foleys, EKGs, splints, etc. - are performed in EDs by those working this role. I know it’s largely hospital-dependent but wondering if anyone wouldn’t mind chiming in. Ty
I'm wondering whether it's possible that lower retentions (say 70-80%) might take more time in total versus higher retentions (say 85-95%) for the following two reasons:
First, I feel it's possible that lower retentions may take longer to recall because the cards are less well known. For instance if lower retention cards take 18 seconds to recall on average but higher retention cards take 9 seconds then would having a higher retention require less time in the end? Or is a significant difference in time-per-recall versus retention even how the cookie crumbles?
Second, it's said that higher retentions lead to more reviews. But is that always the case long-term? Because if cards are failed more often (lower retention), in practice, could that end up leading to more reviews over time than a higher retention?
Thoughts? Ty
I'm wondering if FSRS handles this scenario well:
Say a difficult card is seen over many months or even over a year. It's rated Again periodically and has a high difficulty score. And then suddenly - due an increase in that card's knowledge due to external learning outside of Anki - that card is suddenly much more known to the user. Then the user goes on to rate the card Easy the next few times it comes up. Do the Easy ratings scale the intervals larger at least somewhat similarly to other less difficult cards? Or does the card's difficult history penalize even future multiple Easy ratings (thereby not increase even Easy ratings by much)? This may be a difficult/subjective question to answer and I'm not exactly sure how I'd quantify my question, but ty.
Ignoring CARS (b/c there's no explaining Picasso), if you had to explain to someone who hasn't looked at MCAT materials (maybe they're in the middle of prereqs), how would you describe what the passages are like? Nothing like you'd see in classes, for example? A synthesis of subjects often related at least loosely to medicine? etc.
If one were to only study/mature Anking cards, and not take any classes at all, how would they score on the MCAT if they had moderate reasoning ability? How about if they had great reasoning ability?
I've read it's good to both understand Pankow concepts, and to memorize the definitions. But how in the world do you memorize these definitions? A lot of these cards have like 4 separate pieces of info to memorize, and most of the specific verbiage used seems to be important. I'm mid-thirties with no shortage of life experience to relate these things to - and further I'd majored in psych and haven't even taken most premed prereqs - but still I fail way more P/S cards repeatedly than any other subject. Is memorizing the words used in definitions really that important? High scorers, what's the move? Ty
With TTS, Anki currently says "blank" for every cloze without a hint, which is great. But I'd like it to indicate clozes with hints, say c1::cloze answer::CLOZE HINT, audibly as it reads, as such:
"Currently the front of this card is being read aloud and now here comes a hint start CLOZE HINT hint end."
So basically for every cloze with a hint I'd like to wrap them (hopefully easily by adjusting templates?) with "hint start" and "hint end" so that I know what's a cloze. Because while listening (and not simultaneously viewing) with TTS I often cannot tell where these clozes (with hints) are within the cards. Ty
For Anki done to increase scores on multiple-choice standardized tests (like MCAT), when scoring cards, do you definitely score Again if you did not recall (but would have identified in a practice problem) 1 of the 3 main points (or 1 out of 4, or whatever) before the flip? For instance on the following card:
Front: "What are Semi-Periphery Countries in the World-Systems Theory?"
Back: "Middle-group between core and periphery" and "Developed, but not dominant in international trade"
What if you recalled "Middle-group between core and periphery" and also "Not dominant in international trade" but did not recall (before the flip) "Developed"? If you definitely would have identified a semi-periphery country as developed in a multiple-choice practice problem, would you score this as Again? Or..?
Also, I know the above goes against the concept of atomicity, but there are just so very many premade cards, at least for the MCAT, that are simply not very atomic.
Ty
When scoring cards, do you definitely score Again if you did not recall (but would have identified in a practice problem) 1 of the 3 main points (or 1 out of 4, or whatever) before the flip? For instance on the following card:
Front: "What are Semi-Periphery Countries in the World-Systems Theory?"
Back: "Middle-group between core and periphery" and "Developed, but not dominant in international trade"
What if you recalled "Middle-group between core and periphery" and also "Not dominant in international trade" but did not recall (before the flip) "Developed"? If you definitely would have identified a semi-periphery country as developed in a practice problem, would you score this as Again? Or..?
Ty
Say I begin anki deck for a set of recently learned material.
I get to the point where the whole deck (say many thousands of cards) is in circulation, then work through material (either all material or some material) again outside of anki (books, videos, practice problems). If all material was externally relearned, I can’t see how this would affect FSRS algorithm too negatively other than reviews now showing too early (in a roundabout way due to external learning). Alternatively if some but not all material was relearned I feel like this would maybe mess with the algorithm more than the former scenario. Thoughts?
Also what if relearning (all or some material) happened at a multiple points in the future - any additional considerations here? Thank you!
What if for now I accept some slower responses (say these responses map pretty reliably to scores in that Hard scores take a relatively long time [and/or are uncertain], and Easy scores are relatively fastest [and most definitely known]), but instead in the future either:
or
My best guess is that in either case once the decision to time-adjust is made to just go ahead and score accordingly to new time thresholds (and picking some time that’s deemed definitely too long and [even if correct] scored Again), and let FSRS adjust itself accordingly. Thoughts? Ty
How valuable is scribing for PAs/NPs as opposed to doctors? I’m not sure I will but believe I may have 1-2 physician LoRs otherwise (in case you were to suggest how this wouldn’t lead to a physician LoR). Ty
35 year old career changer. Never taken any collegiate science classes. Never paid attention in high school (never in college either except only during lectures for my psych major classes [but never read books or ever really cared, etc.]). So like… I do not know science. Absolute stranger danger.
If I end up going back for post-bacc prereqs I’ll be looking to take the MCAT around April 2029. Do I have a fighting chance of learning all of the science needed to get into med school within 3 years?
All I have to go off of aptitude-wise are the following two things (without prior practice or study):
I took MCAT FL 1 CARS section with 2.25x time (205 minutes) and scored 127 (84th %). I did that because at regular time I did not stand a chance with my current attention span because I’ve never been a reader (in addition to being a bad student).. seriously attention span while focusing on CARS passages is allllll over the place. I’ve read like ten books ever, and nothing ever quite as wordy as CARS. So I gave myself some grace with double and a quarter time. But shall I proceed I’m extremely determined to practice as many CARS and LSAT passages as I can over the next few years.
I also did P/S from FL 1, with 1.5x time (138 minutes). Again, just a terribly difficult time focusing while reading (for now, hopefully..). Scored 126 (54th %). Graduated psych bachelor’s in 2014, basically haven’t used it since (content wise at least). And again only ever paid attention in psych classes but didn’t read or really care, etc… so idk how I feel about this score either, extra time and bachelor’s considered.
I just don’t know if that’s any indication of my aptitude or not. And all of this science (with my background being “what’s mitochondria?”) is extremely intimidating. Thoughts? My experiences since college have led me to want to do nothing other than medicine (as a physician, not PA) so I REALLY appreciate any thoughts at all you have, thank you so very much.