Preparing to attend

Look up the patients before you arrive using Clinical Portal and Badgernet

Make sure you arrive early, before the clinic starts

Ensure you have a paper measuring tape (they are also in each clinic room)

Revise ‘How to examine a pregnant abdomen’

When you arrive

Introduce yourself to the reception staff, say you are here to sit in with the doctor. Ask where you should wait

When the doctor arrives, introduce yourself. Say that you have looked up the cases

What you might be able to do from the logbook

Conduct an antenatal history and exam

Examination of a pregnant abdomen

Assessment of clinical conditions eg SGA, Pregnancy with a pre-existing medical condition (See Page 6-7)

Other opportunities to look out for

Take BP

Read the urine dipstick

Sit in with the vaccination nurse