8th Medical Seminar at Boys Town Hospital
Thanks Dr. Allen & associates @Boys Town National Research Hospital!
Thanks Dr. Allen & associates @Boys Town National Research Hospital!
Students learned:
Students learned:
- To suture (It was really difficult!)
- To put casts each other's arms & learned about orthopedics
- Read x-rays (They were so lucky to keep the stethoscopes, and were quite adorable wearing them around their necks.)
- Listen for a heart beat & learned what's normal & not normal
- Heard from doctors in various fields
- Visited the labs (Our kids who love science felt that was the place for them.)
- Visited the surgery rooms & learned from the anesthesiologist
- Watched a live scope down Dr. Allen's nose & throat (It was gross & cool!)
- About Medicine and Surgery
- About Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences (visited the labs too)
- About Medical Laboratory Technology (visited the labs too)
- About Nursing
- Emergency Medicine (EMT/Paramedics)Visited the inside of an ambulance & learned from paramedics
- Skills needed to be a doctor & schooling
- About Plastic surgery for patients with cancer (There is so much math involved.)