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Mike,
It’s Clayne…Jodi sent me your blog…how are things going? Drop me a line and fill me in. Looks like you’re doing well
Later
Clayne
Great post Mike. I really like the background information on SIT/SET and the warning that just throwing people in to stressful situations with prior preparation and without grading the exposure will fail. I am however instantly skeptical when it comes to people trying to overlay military (and aviation) concepts onto the healthcare profession. This is because: 1) The selection process used to gain entry to military training is far more exhaustive than that used for medicine (well, in Australia it is, not sure about the US). Military personnel must pass rigorous physical and health checks which include screening questions about… Read more »
Hey Andy, Thanks so much for reading and responding. I appreciate your insightful comments. Let me begin by making it very clear: I am not advocating that we apply the individual technical elements of the special operations selection program to any organization in medicine. It would be pointless to to take them to the pool and put them through water confidence training (unless, of course, they were planing on going to the special operations combatant dive program for some reason). Perhaps I will make all future posts void of various military or extra-medical examples. This story was intended to relay… Read more »
And in case you want to see what basic training in the US military looks like, check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap8HBVFNNho
My medical school “conformity” process was nothing like this!
Typo in first paragraph. I think you meant “tale,” not “tail”
Good stuff.
Great information that was wonderfully supported by peer reviewed sources!
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