Latest Happenings

After a lovely more relaxing March with our annual team fellowship, the students on their semester break and Easter break; the new semester is here and April is coming hard and fast. Here are a few of the things keeping us busy in pictures...

We have enjoyed having Wendell (Opa) Geary here for a month. 

We are enjoying (and very busy with!) Medical Missions Course XI. In this picture I am hanging out with the nurse I am mentoring. More coming in another blog post.

Mondays and Tuesdays I am busy in the skills lab teaching 2nd year students pediatric and maternity skills. This semester I will be also spending time in the skills lab with the 1st year students as they learn the very basics like wound care and taking vital signs.

Practicing pediatric chest physiotherapy. It isn't all seriousness :)

Freshmen learning the basics about wound care

Yesterday we spent many hours on how to help a mom give birth and initial baby care

Obviously not very realistic but it helps them think through and visualize the process plus do a little role play on how the will talk with their patients and families. Favorite role on this day is always the birthing mom with her moaning and groaning and excitement at meeting her new baby :)

One of the more fun skills labs we get to do is infant massage. We don't have enough infant mannequins so the students get to practice on each other! I just wish it would be culturally appropriate for me to volunteer to be the patient :)