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Checking Vitals


August 27, 2025

Vital Signs Skills Session

Practicing reading blood pressure
Students practicing their skills
Learning how to find a pulse

Students working together in the skills session
A student using a blood pressure cuff
Students using equipment in the skills session

Students learning to use an oximeter
A group of students learning to use a stethoscope
Practicing using stethoscope skills

Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications

First-year McGovern Medical School students practice taking vital signs in the Surgical and Clinical Skills Center, Aug. 21.


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