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| Ogden High School Medical Day
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One thing Allison Pate learned Tuesday during the Ogden High School Medical Day is that being a doctor isn't easy.
"I've learned you have to have a lot of concentration to do this," the junior said, looking at the thread she had just stitched through a pig's foot.
Fifty students from OHS visited McKay-Dee Hospital to learn more about careers in the medical field.
The students sutured a wound in a pig's foot, put casts on each others' arms and learned how to take blood pressure.
The workshop, which was sponsored by the Family Practice Residency Program at the Porter Clinic, is a spinoff of a similar program that was done with premedical students at Weber State University last summer.
Anne Hutchinson, M.D., who organized the event, said they planned a program for the high school students after she was approached by OHS teacher Suzie Davis, who had heard about the WSU workshop.
Hutchinson hopes the event will encourage the students to go into medical careers.
"I think it's (important) just to stimulate their interest," she said. "It, hopefully, will inspire them a little bit."
Davis said all the students who attended are interested in careers in the medical field, and there was even a waiting list after students heard about the program.
She said opportunities like this help the students stay focused on what they want to achieve and gets them excited about their goals.
"Sometimes, the kids, when they are doing just high school, they are into their grades and into high school drama and stuff, but when they see stuff like this, it sparks something within them," she said.
Pate said she wants to go into physical therapy after she graduates from high school.
"It's the only thing I'm really interested in," she said. "I don't like business or anything like that."
Driane Younger, another junior, said she wanted to come to the workshop to see the different kinds of things she would do in the medical field.
She wants to be a pediatric doctor.
"It's gives me a chance to see what I could do and what choices I could make," she said.
"I kind of already know what I want to be, but it's still good to see if I'd like something else." Davis said the event is perfect for students because they are doing hands-on activities in an area in which they have an interest.
"The kids are paying attention," she said.
"You don't see kids outside (in the halls) doing shenanigans. They want to be inside listening."
Pate said the experience taught her something she otherwise would not have learned in high school.
"They are giving us an opportunity now instead of having to try this stuff when we're older," she said.(source) |
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