Medical Procedures
This is a list of common medical procedures that students must learn and be able to perform. The following list includes all of the medical procedure you may need to learn. You will not necessarily need to learn all of the procedures included on the list, depending on your field of practice; to determine which procedures you will be taught and evaluated on, please speak with your mentor.
Basic Medical Procedures
Measuring Temperature
Weight Measuring
Respiratory Rate
How To Take a Pulse
Measuring Blood Pressure
Sub Q Injection
Intramuscular Injection
How To Draw Blood
How To Insert IV Catheter
How to Wash the Ear
How To Perform a Nasal Swab Part 1
How To Perform a Nasal Swab Part 2
How To Examine the Ear, Nose, and Throat
Specimen Collection for Culture: Techniques Lecture
How To Use a Glucometemer
How to Measure PT and PTT Lecture
How To Avoid Accidental Needle Stick: Procedures/Guidelines by the CDC
How to Dispose of Syringes: Guidelines by the FDA
How to Effectively Wash Hands (Pre-Operative)
Infectious Disease Precaution
How to Use Hand Sanitizer
How To Avoid Contamination
Examinations/Diagnosis
How To Do Cervical Exam
How To Perform Shoulder Exam
How To Do Elbow Exam
How To Do Hands and Wrist Exam
How To Do Thoracic Spine Examination
How To Perform a Lumbar Spine Examination
How To Perform a TMJ Exam
How To Perform a Hips Examination
How To Do Knees Exam
How To Do Ankles/Feet Exam
How To Do A Fluorescein Eye Exam
How To Perform An Ear Examination
How To Perform a Fundoscopic Exam
How To Perform An Examination of the Scalp: A Guide by DermNetNZ
How to Perform An Examination of the Nose
How to Perform An Examination of the Neck
How to Perform An Examination of Head/Neck post-trauma
How to Perform an Examination of the Cranial Nerves
How To Do A Chest Wall Examination
How To Do a Lung Exam
How To Do a Cardiovascular Exam
How To Do An Abdominal Exam
How To Check For Spleen Enlargement
How To Check for Liver Enlargement
How to Check for Bowel Sounds
How To Check for Kidney Inflammation/Infection (Kidney Examination)
How To Check for Ascites
How To Diagnose Abdominal Hernias
How To Check for Abdominal Aortic Aneurism
How To Diagnose Inguinal Hernia
How To Diagnose Femoral Hernia
How To Diagnose Paget’s Disease
How To Perform Neurologic Examination
How To Perform Cranial Nerve Exam
How To Check For Deep Tendon Reflexes
How To Do Sensory Exam
How To Do Neurmuscular Motor Exam
How To Perform a Peripheral Arterial Study
Non-Invasive Procedures
How To Administer Flu Nasal Spray
How To Perform Allergy Testing
How To Do an Echocardiogram
How To Do a Pulmonary Function Test
How To Perform CPR
How To Run a Code
How To Perform Defibrillation
How to do an Exercise Stress Test
How To Perform/How To Determine Need for Oxygen Therapy
How To Do a Nerve Conduction Study
Invasive Procedures
Analysis of Bronchoalveolar Lavage
Bronchoalveolar Lavage
How To Insert a Chest Tube
How To Do a Transesophagael Echo (Under Anesthesia)
How To Do a Bronchoscopy
How To Perform Various Regular Sutures
How to Perform Horizontal Mattress Sutures
How To Perform Vertical Mattress Sutures
Wound Dressings/How To Dress a Wound
How To Do Tender Point Injections in the Upper Back and Neck
How To Diagnose and Read Pleural Effusion Results
How to Read Abdominal Paracentesis Fluid Results
How To Do Amniocentesis
How To Do a Colosystectomy
How To Do an Appendectomy
How To Perform A Colonoscopy
How To Perform a Sygmoidoscopy
How To Read CSF Fluid Analysis Results
How To Do a Barium Swallow with Small Bowel Follow Through
How to Do an ERCP
How to Dilate Esophagus
How to Do Cervical Injections
How To Do Soft Tissue Injections
How To Do Subacromial Injections
How To Do Shoulder Joint Injections/Aspiration
How To Do Elbow Injections/Aspiration
How To Do a Tennis Elbow Injection/Aspiration
How To Do a Golfer Elbow Injection/Aspiration
How To Do Wrist Injection/Aspiration
How To Do First CMC joint injection/Aspiration
How To Do Hand Joint Injection/Aspiration
How To Do Epidural Injection/Aspiration
How To Do SI joint Injection/Aspiration
How To Do Facet Injection/Aspiration
How To Do Hip Joint Injection/Aspiration
How To Do Trochanteric Bursa Injection/Aspiration
How To Do Knee Injection/Aspiration
How To Do Foot/Ankle Injection and Aspiration
How To Perform a Total Hip Replacement
How To Perform a Total Knee Replacement
How To Perform Total Shoulder Replacement
How To Perform a Total Hand Joint Replacement
How To Perform a Total Elbow Joint Replacement
Radiography/How To Read Scans
How to Read X-Ray of the Chest
How To Read CT of the Chest
Gallium Scan of Lungs: What It Is
How To Do an EKG
How To Do a Thallium Cardiac Scan/Nuclear Stress Test
How To Do Upper GI Series
How to Read CT/MRI/X-rays of the Sinuses
How to Read Ultrasound of the Thyroid
How To Do an EMG
How To Interpret EMG Results
How To Do an EEG
How To Interpret EEG Results
How To Do a Lumbar Puncture
How To Do Muscle Biopsy
How To Analyze Muscle Biopsy Results
How to Read MRI of Brain
How To Read MRI of Cervical Spinal
How To Read MRI of Thoracic Spinal
How To Read MRI of Lumbar Spinal
How To Read Ultrasound of Abdomen/Right Upper Quadrant
How To Read Ultrasound of Lower Quadrants
How To Read CT/MRI of Abdomen
How To Read SI joint X-ray/CT/MRI
How To Read X rays of the Cervical Spine
How To Read CT Scans of the Cervical Spine
How To Read MRI Scans of the Cervical Spine
How to Read X rays of Thoracic Spine
How To Read CT Scans of the Thoracic Spine
How To Read MRI Scans of the Thoracic Spine
How To Read X rays of the Lumbar Spine
How To Read CT Scans of the Lumbar Spine
How To Read MRI Scans of the Lumbar Spine
How To Read TMJ Radiology
How To Read Shoulder X-Rays
How To Read Shoulder MRI Scans
How To Read Elbow MRI Scans
How To Read Elbow X-Rays
How To Read Hands and Wrists X-Rays
How To Read Hands and Wrists MRI Scans
How To Read Hip X-Rays
How To Read Hip MRI Scans
How To Read Knee X-Rays
How To Read Ankles/Feet X-Rays
How To Do A Bone Scan
How To Do a DXA Bone Density Exam
What Laboratory Tests To Order for Complaints of Joint Pain, Stiffness, etc.
When To Order an X Ray, CT Scan, MRI Scan, Bone Scan, or Other Forms of Diagnostic Imaging
How To Read CT of Pelvis
How To Read PET Scans (For Chest and Abdomen Purposes)
How to Read Bone Scan (Lecture Slides)
How To Do a Venous Doppler Test
How To Do an Ultrasound of the Abdominal Aorta
How To Do an Arteriogram
How To Do a Venogram
How To Do a VQ Scan
How To Do a Cerebral Angiogram
How To Do an Ultrasound of Carotid Artery
How To Do a Carotid Angiography
How To Do a Cardiac Catheterization
How To Do a Mesenteric Angiogram