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Tips on…Your obstetrics rotation
BMJ 2006; 333 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/sbmj.0609329a (Published 01 September 2006) Cite this as: BMJ 2006;333:0609329a
- Kar Hao Teoh, fourth year medical student1
- 1University of Edinburgh
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Talk to midwives - They are hugely knowledgeable about deliveries - doctors sometimes lack their breadth of experience. They can teach you to fill in and read a partogram, to interpret cardiotocograms, and to correctly deliver a baby and check the placenta.
Clerk patients - Talk to as many patients as possible - in antenatal clinics, in postnatal clinics, and in triage. Speak to postnatal mothers, and ask …
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