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"Patrick serves a dual purpose: personal and professional. Personally, he comes equipped with software that enables him to interact emotionally with the student and voice any concerns he has about the procedure... The other purpose he serves is functional. Patrick is endowed with force sensors, which can alert the student when he or she is being too aggressive, and can report how thorough the student was in his or her examination."

 

http://www.medicaldaily.com/robotic-butt-offers-prostate-exam-training-medical-students-how-patrick-teaches-empathy-proper

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As a medical student on my medicine rotation we were instructed as to how to do a rigid sigmoidoscopy on a member of a group of paid volunteers or "models" and in gyn, vaginal exams were taught the same way. The rigid scope session, was taught in a large open area, an old ER ward, with curtains and about a dozen volunteers, one behind each curtain. Once behind the curtain, a student was individually instructed as to how to position the patient and then how to do the exam. At first there was just murmuring of the lessons being reviewed between instructor and student. Then came the first scream of pain, piercing the room as I am sure the scope pierced the volunteer's anal verge. Then another scream. Was it the same person or another? Then another, then two together. And before long, there was a chorus of moans and screams and to this day I get the same feeling of desperation when I think about it and then the flopsweat comes as I recall trying to gently move the scope around and being met with a wall of resistance and the pleading cries of the "model" to stop and the encouragement of the instructor to try a different angle. Finally when the full 25 inches of the hollow metal tube were inside the model, we were able to remove the stylus and observe through the hollow of the tube, the lining of the sigmoid colon. My model's sigmoid appeared to have survived with minimal overt damage. I cannot say the same for my psyche. As I reviewed, my technique with my instructor, the model got dressed and as he started to leave, he said: "So I can come back this afternoon for another $50." The instructor nodded and the model said: "See you then".

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As a medical student on my medicine rotation we were instructed as to how to do a rigid sigmoidoscopy on a member of a group of paid volunteers or "models" and in gyn, vaginal exams were taught the same way. The rigid scope session, was taught in a large open area, an old ER ward, with curtains and about a dozen volunteers, one behind each curtain. Once behind the curtain, a student was individually instructed as to how to position the patient and then how to do the exam. At first there was just murmuring of the lessons being reviewed between instructor and student. Then came the first scream of pain, piercing the room as I am sure the scope pierced the volunteer's anal verge. Then another scream. Was it the same person or another? Then another, then two together. And before long, there was a chorus of moans and screams and to this day I get the same feeling of desperation when I think about it and then the flopsweat comes as I recall trying to gently move the scope around and being met with a wall of resistance and the pleading cries of the "model" to stop and the encouragement of the instructor to try a different angle. Finally when the full 25 inches of the hollow metal tube were inside the model, we were able to remove the stylus and observe through the hollow of the tube, the lining of the sigmoid colon. My model's sigmoid appeared to have survived with minimal overt damage. I cannot say the same for my psyche. As I reviewed, my technique with my instructor, the model got dressed and as he started to leave, he said: "So I can come back this afternoon for another $50." The instructor nodded and the model said: "See you then".

 

I hope they give them Propofol these days! lol.

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As a medical student on my medicine rotation we were instructed as to how to do a rigid sigmoidoscopy on a member of a group of paid volunteers or "models" and in gyn, vaginal exams were taught the same way. The rigid scope session, was taught in a large open area, an old ER ward, with curtains and about a dozen volunteers, one behind each curtain. Once behind the curtain, a student was individually instructed as to how to position the patient and then how to do the exam. At first there was just murmuring of the lessons being reviewed between instructor and student. Then came the first scream of pain, piercing the room as I am sure the scope pierced the volunteer's anal verge. Then another scream. Was it the same person or another? Then another, then two together. And before long, there was a chorus of moans and screams and to this day I get the same feeling of desperation when I think about it and then the flopsweat comes as I recall trying to gently move the scope around and being met with a wall of resistance and the pleading cries of the "model" to stop and the encouragement of the instructor to try a different angle. Finally when the full 25 inches of the hollow metal tube were inside the model, we were able to remove the stylus and observe through the hollow of the tube, the lining of the sigmoid colon. My model's sigmoid appeared to have survived with minimal overt damage. I cannot say the same for my psyche. As I reviewed, my technique with my instructor, the model got dressed and as he started to leave, he said: "So I can come back this afternoon for another $50." The instructor nodded and the model said: "See you then".

 

I feel sorry for those models - paid less than, say, an escort and enjoying it less. Ouch!

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"Patrick serves a dual purpose: personal and professional. Personally, he comes equipped with software that enables him to interact emotionally with the student and voice any concerns he has about the procedure... The other purpose he serves is functional. Patrick is endowed with force sensors, which can alert the student when he or she is being too aggressive, and can report how thorough the student was in his or her examination."

 

http://www.medicaldaily.com/robotic-butt-offers-prostate-exam-training-medical-students-how-patrick-teaches-empathy-proper

 

nice to meet you Patrick...

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