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August 24, 2018 at 1:23 pm
Hi Rhondamcart!
You need to look at the sentences within the physical exam. Similar to deciding if you have a major heading or a sentence at the start of each paragraph, you need to decide if each sentence is a regular sentence or has a subheading at the start.
The key to this is to look to see if a verb was dictated that applies to your ‘potential subheading.’ Here are a few examples:
Extremities show 2+ edema. (Is this a subheading or sentence? The verb ‘show’ applies to your potential subheading “extremities,” so this should be formatted as a regular sentence.)
Extremities edematous with excoriations on the left lateral calf. (Is this a subheading or sentence? There is no verb which applies to ‘extremities,’ so this should become a subheading.)
Correction = Extremities: Edematous with excoriations on the left lateral calf.
As soon as you have a subheading within an exam, you need to change the formatting of the entire exam to stacked/list format. This means that each new section of the exam should have a line of its own.
Please let us know if you have any questions!
Laurie Monks, Instructor
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