Half way through!

Not only are the Barefoot Dr students halfway through the second year but they are also half way through the entire program! Of course that means Mid Terms! On Friday we gave them their mid term exam and we will grade them Monday. This is good to see how the students are doing but also how we are doing as teachers. If there are any class-wide trends of missed questions, then likely it is do to our teaching and not the students. We will use this information to further tailor the program to the students needs. All the teaching staff ends up learning and growing from this experience as much as the students.

We also had Dr. David Brumwell return and Cyril Thomas MS PA-C join us on Friday. They were not scheduled to teach until Monday the 14th but they were so eager to get going they started Friday. Dr. Nilson and I could surely use the extra help.

Dr. David and Dr. Cyril, as they are known by the students, are both from San Diego. They work at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center ER. Their skills will be very valuable to the students.

Dr. David’s daughter Alexis also joined us for the day on Friday just to see the program. She quickly was recruited as a practice patient as

David and Cyril taught on choking and CPR. In these pictures you can see Cyril 1^st demonstrating and then having the students go through the procedure for an unconscious choking victim, using David as patient. Also, there is a picture of David demonstrating on Alexis the jaw thrust while showing the “look, listen, and feel” of CPR. Alexis was actually a big help in allowing the patients to practice on a real person.

Cyril started out by giving them all a small gift of a T-shirt. They loved the gift as you can see by the picture.

For dinner that night Dr. David requested we return to his favorite worm serving restaurant so his daughter could enjoy the fried bamboo worms for herself. Perhaps this was intended as her reward for helping us in class. I am sure Alexis appreciated the gesture. Doesn't she look happy as she is about to eat the worms in this picture?