Top 10 Orthopedic questions

Dr. Susan McDowell teaching with Timothy translating 

Tuesday the teaching started on orthopedic issues. Dr. Susan McDowell started out by asking the students what issues they have seen and what  questions they have related to orthopedics. Some of the answers may surprise you (Picture Attached). We were shocked to hear that about a quarter of the class have seen land mine injuries! Fortunately they did not see these injuries immediately after they occurred and they were usually only observers.   They also have seen gun shot injuries and wanted to know how they should treat them if needed. This indicates a significant increase in the number of these kinds of violent injuries compared to years past.

Top 10 List of student ortho questions. 

Here is a top 10 list:

·      Motor bike accident

·      Fall off cliff/ tree

·      Dislocations

·      Knife, cut injury

·      Landmines

·      Bullet wounds

·      Animal bite-bear

·      Hit by stone-rock fall

·      People fighting

·      Nail injuries.

Exam of student with crooked finger

Dislocations and sutures were discussed and students were used as real life examples.

The audience response system(ARS) system was used to start and collect the data from the patient log books. This is also used to talk about the different types of patients and start answering questions. We will report out on the findings as we get more data. Thank you for your interest in this important work
Rick Astone

Students getting used to suture equipment