What is your favourite training tip?
Whether it is for interns, students, or technicians, what tips do you use most often?
Think sigs: How do you get them to remember the difference between S and D?
or between A and P?
or SL and ODT?
I have found these sig codes appear most often.
1. AC vs PC (before meals vs after meals) I like to remind everyone of AM (morning) and PM (evening). Think of them as BEFORE Midday and AFTER Midday.
I also throw out to try "AFORE vs POST".
2. AS vs AD (Or OS vs OD). S=sinister. Evil. LEFT Side vs. your DOMINANT Hand (for all but 10%).
Make the OK symbol with your left hand. Hold it up to your eye. Now you know "O" is for eye. Also, you can trace an "S" from your middle finger to your pointer finger through the circle to your thumb. OS=Left EYE.
Make the same OK symbol with your right hand. Straighten your fingers. It makes a lower case "D". OD=Right EYE.
3. SL vs ODT - SUB=Under which means this is literally Under The Tongue whereas ODT should be remembered as ON DA TONGUE.
What other training tips do you use in the pharmacy?
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