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Amanda Huntington, VanWert, Iowa, a sophomore at UNO, gets the feel for suturing using a banana. Tom Grothe, PA-C, assistant professor, physician assistant, helps with the exercise, which was presented by the physician assistant program. |
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James Booth, Ph.D., associate professor, pathology/microbiology, explains how tables and concept drawings can help students study to Jeffrey Gartrell, Columbus, and Sarah Heacock, Sioux City, Iowa, both juniors at UNL. |
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Katie Berray, Omaha, a freshman at UNL, operates the pan and tilt robot prototype that is being developed for laproscopic surgery. Mark Rentschler, a Ph.D. student at UNL, is on the design team. |
Sponsored by the Office of Student Equity and Multicultural Affairs, the day featured presentations by UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., Rubens Pamies, M.D., vice chancellor for academic affairs; and John McClain, Ph.D., associate vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Mini class sessions were presented on effective study habits, weight loss surgery, patient simulators, brain mapping and tumors, bioterrorism, X-ray crystallography, infant mortality, drug delivery systems and robotic surgery.
Students were then treated with a variety of tours, from the anatomy laboratory and banana suturing to the electron microscopy laboratory and robotic surgical tools.
Students evaluated the program with high marks and said they would like to participate in future events. Their only criticism — they would have liked more time with the presenters.