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Sophia Trozzo pays close attention to instructions about mixing medication, in the Pharmacy. |
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Christine Jang gets a lift during a session where students learned how to safely move patients. |
FauquierHealth is celebrating its tenth year of offering summer Medical Camps by allowing participants in its
Level 2 camp to perform a simulated
laparoscopic gallbladder removal surgery. “It’s very realistic,” said camp
coordinator Julie Fainter. “The students get a real feel for what surgery might
be like.”
Fauquier Health’s Medical Camps
allow children hands-on experience and insight into possible medical careers, drawing
children from around the East Coast. Some, who participated in the camp in the
past, are now in medical school, nursing school or exploring other healthcare
professions.
Open to children 13-18 years of
age, the camps offer two levels of hands-on activities in which students learn
and practice skills essential to patient care, such as starting an IV, mixing
medications, suturing wounds and more.
Acceptance into the camp program is competitive. This year’s
group of students will be attending from Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Michigan, Florida and Connecticut. One session has already been held.
Remaining Level 1 dates are June 20-21 and June 27-28. Level 2 dates are July 11-12
and July 18-19.
First-time campers attend the Level 1 medical camp, learning skills like typing blood in the lab, how to intubate a patient, how to suture, starting an IV, mixing medications in the pharmacy, and seeing how X-rays are performed. Students participate in a mock code in the emergency department, learn how to triage patients, take blood pressures and harvest a cornea from a human eye.
First-time campers attend the Level 1 medical camp, learning skills like typing blood in the lab, how to intubate a patient, how to suture, starting an IV, mixing medications in the pharmacy, and seeing how X-rays are performed. Students participate in a mock code in the emergency department, learn how to triage patients, take blood pressures and harvest a cornea from a human eye.
Level 2 medical camp activities include all of the following
on the first day: applying a cast to a partner’s arm (and cutting the cast off
using the cast saw); placing internal sutures and closing skin incisions with
staples, and extricating a patient from a vehicle using a cervical collar and
backboard. On the second day, students will learn to do injections and
blood draws, precipitate their DNA from a cheek swab and perform the gallbladder
removal surgery. Students must have participated in a Level 1 camp in a prior
year to be eligible for the Level 2 camp.
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