Casting Clinic Provides CHM Students an Opportunity to Lend A Hand...Literally


The experience of being an MSU College of Human Medicine student is a challenging yet rewarding one. CHM students can have a lot on their plates journeying to become productive physicians who are respected across the state and country.
Naturally, there's much to learn at CHM and students regularly take advantage of opportunities to practice many of the procedures they'll be implementing one day as full-fledged Spartan MD's.

Clinics, lectures, exhibitions, demonstrations, and workshops are all great opportunities for students to get better insight into those procedures.

One such workshop was put on by the Family Medicine Interest Group last Tuesday evening. Students were invited to attend a special casting clinic to learn how to place an arm cast—something they may come to be very familiar with as family practitioners.

Experienced physicians from CHM and Sparrow Hospital were joined on the East Lansing campus by several Block I and II students at the Radiology Building Auditorium. After enjoying some pizza, the demonstration began as attendees were shown proper technique and given solid pointers to make the experience easier for them as well as their future patients.

CHM Students are first taught how place an arm cast before they pair up practice themselves.

Following the quick example by participating physicians, students were then given some supplies and instructed to partner up.

It was their turn!

With the instructors providing supervision, students were able to lend a hand in putting into practice what they had just been taught.

The aspiring doctors had fun in this informal session and did well in producing their own casts. Those who have the unfortunate circumstance of a future including an injured arm will, on the other hand (no pun intended), be fortunate to have any of these future physicians.


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