Understanding Heart Rate as a Doctor
1:13
Grades: 3 - 8
Video Description: Dr. Cynthia Wichelman, FACEP, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director of Washington University in St. Louis Mini-Medical School, explains how doctors use Heart rate to help diagnose a patient.
Type of Video: Segment*
Unique Video ID: Medicine-16**
Quick Ideas for Using the Video:
- Have your students explain why the heart rate is important for a diagnosis.
- After viewing this set of videos, Medicine 12, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19, pair students to role play a doctor patient visit, having the patient describe different symptoms from these videos to the doctor.
*Segment videos are short excerpts edited from interviews or interactive programs that offer flexible and differentiated ways to use the rich content included in the full-length conversation.
**The unique Video ID can be used to quickly locate a single video in the ET collection. This search function is designed to let teachers assign students to watch a specific video and have only that video appear as a search result. Just click on Search and choose “By Video ID.” Then type in the Video ID as it appears above. Be sure to include the dash.
