CLINICAL EDUCATION CENTER – First year student James Redbug made his small group leader and fellow students uncomfortable this week as he confused the day’s task of taking a history of present illness with taking a sexual history. Redbug seemed to think he needed to combine the two aspects of the clinical encounter in “what can only be described as the most uncomfortable ten minutes of my life,” said one classmate.

“He clearly did not watch the Doc.Com module in advance,” said Redbug’s small group leader, Dr. Bertram Dart. “It’s really not clear to me how he could have thought this was the intended exercise for the day.”

After the standardized patient explained she had been experiencing intermittent headaches for the past two weeks Redbug reportedly showed verbal acknowledgement by saying, “bow-chick-a-wow-wow.” According to one member of Redbug’s small group the standardized patient looked “wicked uncomfortable” as Redbug followed up, “how many times in the past two weeks have you been sexually active and had these headaches?”

Ben Voder, a friend of Redbug’s, explained Redbug had expressed some confusion about the assignment prior to class. Redbug had apparently suggested the assignment seemed strange. “I didn’t understand what he was talking about,” said Voder. “It wasn’t until he started asking the patient if she experienced her headaches with men, women or both that I realized something was wrong. Seriously wrong.”

Voder added, “It got real weird up in there.”