4 Tips to Avoid Embarrassing Yourself in the Operating Room #SHORTS

The operating room is an intimidating place for many medical students. Here are four tips to avoid embarrassing yourself during your surgical rotations.

First, always introduce yourself when entering the OR. The circulating nurse will need to chart who all is in the room, so getting into the habit of doing this early will help streamline the process.

Second, do your best not to get in the way. When you’re new to the OR, it’s easy to get confused by all the moving pieces; however, you want to avoid slowing other people down or negatively impacting their ability to do their job.

Third, learn to read the room. There’s a time to ask questions and a time to let the surgical team focus on the task at hand. Don’t be the student who asks questions at inappropriate times.

Lastly, avoid taking things personally. Surgery is often stressful and there will be moments of high tension where you may be yelled at or talked down to.

Remember, these instances are often more a reflection of the situation and the character of the individual you’re working with than they are of you. Avoid beating yourself up about it.

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[headphones]

Instructions unclear, managed to horrify everyone in the operating room when I introduced myself while they were operating on me

[Yesyes-vjcn]

I’m a new surgical tech and I yelled at a student for the first time a few weeks ago. I shocked myself I’m not normally mean to people. But I realize that I yelled out of nervousness she was about to contaminate the back table. I made sure to let her know at the end of the procedure that I wasn’t trying to be mean to her and she was a total sweetheart about it.

[ClicClikBang]

Just got through my surgery rotation. The surgeon I was shadowing was one of the nicest docs I ever met. When he wasn’t educating me on medicine and how to manage a private practice, we were discussing historical events both in and out of medicine. Fascinating guy.

Also, in the OR he was cool as a cucumber and did his absolute best to allow me to assist however possible.

Surgeons get a bad wrap. In fact, the biggest jerks I know are internal medicine docs.

[adayabush]

But the way some people yell, literally makes you feel useless. Like im trying too :(

[nightshockplayz]

You are going to get embarrassed regardless of whether you do these things or not. The medical education culture really keeps the toxicity high.

[picassoofai]

Wow, You just described the moment when I help my dad fix something.

[singsongeric]

lol! I clicked on this thinking it was about how to not be embarrassing as a patient getting surgery and I was like omg I never thought about this before.

[muccara]

Listening to this will really help me to be a good patient going forward

[omarmesbah]

Introduce yourself: “knock knock I’m the new med student.”

If you know, you know.

[jarlesleglerg]

This is the perfect video I needed as a student of plane mechanics.

[mycelia_ow]

High stress still doesn't justify losing your mind and berating people, there is no amount of stress that can justify forgoing civility. Yes you shouldn't take it personally, but bad on them for not being in control of their emotions during critical situations. They don't make good medical

[spiderwebnitter]

I love how I read this and was thinking it was for patients but this makes much more sense 😂

[tdc_freezyfreeze]

This is so accurate. I'm not in medical school but am a surgical tech and everything this video says is 100% true. Don't beat yourself up if you did get yelled at or talked down too it's not a big deal the surgeons are stressed they have a patient on the bed that they've been entrusted too. So if anything goes wrong it's their fault that things went wrong. Which is why they are who they are. Not all surgeons are like this though.

[kaiscarlet]

The last one about stress can also be applied for the Culinary Arts students. It's stressful in the kitchen, high tension is not unusual.

[jpgalacticbeatz]

Dress warmly (wear white undershirt since it gets cold), arrive on time (AKA early) to an operation, keep a distance so you don’t break sterile field (I think it’s called), eat well beforehand, empty bladder

[michaelu]

The whole yelling and talking down upon thing shouldn’t be accepted, I think heavier consequences should take place because you don’t know how it may affect an individual. You also don’t know what they have going on at home, if we are providers we need to take care of each other, prevent burnout, and have self control. High stress shouldn’t be an excuse for down talking or yelling at someone else.

[anthonyquagliano]

Bruh HOW do you not include "Learn what the scrub table is and DON'T TOUCH IT" lol

[beefyj]

Massive respect to you guys, words can’t even describe how thankful we are for your skills, commitment and your time ❤️

[Coastfog]

I'm a videographer and when I was still pretty much a beginner, we shot footage of an infant open heart surgery. I've been in many stressful and sometimes even dangerous situations in my career, but I *never* was as anxious as in this OR. I was constantly going like "Don't touch anything, don't be in anyone's way, the life of a baby might depend on you fcking up and you know how much you like to fck up."

Love to all medical professionals, you saved my life and the lives of my loved ones many times. ❤

[snicksss]

This is very useful information for me as someone who is not related to a medical career in the slightest.