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Scrubbing in means you wash up like surgeons do, you know, your whole hands and forearms, and get all nice and clean and put on sterile gloves/gowns to watch/help with surgery. If you don't scrub in, you have to stand a few feet away.

Scutwork is what volunteers usually do, runs to the blood bank, stocking supplies, etc. Med students shouldn't really be doing those things.
 
NapeSpikes said:
Scrubbing in means you wash up like surgeons do, you know, your whole hands and forearms, and get all nice and clean and put on sterile gloves/gowns to watch/help with surgery. If you don't scrub in, you have to stand a few feet away.

Scutwork is what volunteers usually do, runs to the blood bank, stocking supplies, etc. Med students shouldn't really be doing those things.
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Scrubbing - you got it!

Scutwork, well as for that med-students do do PLENTY of that. Of course a lot depends on your residents attitude to scutwork and how busy the service is. Scutwork for med students includes but is not limited to: getting supplies for procedures, hunting down charts, taking pt's to procedures, hunting down lab and exam results, calling for appts for pts, calling for transport, drawing blood for labs, copying papers for other team members e.g. attending or residents... I know there's more but there you have it. 🙂
 
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