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As of now, I’m in school full time working towards my surgical technology degree (9 weeks till graduation!)
Today our program participated in a career/college fair for some of the area high schools, so I was witness to these exchanges.
We had a table set up with a mannequin head and (foam) upper torso covered with a surgical drape that we were “operating on”. Several students walked by, did a double take, and asked “Is that a real body?” Why, yes, we brought half a human into the events center.
My fellow student gives spiel to high schooler while showing him the information packet. High schooler seems interested until he sees the degree plan (roughly a page long):
“I don’t like to do homework”. He appeared to be overwhelmed by the amount of classes one needed to take. Um, ok. Then during the course of the conversation he tells us he wants to be a nurse.
Does he not realize that nursing is going to be more difficult? They have to take classes like Mental Health Nursing and Childbearing and Management of Care, while going to clinicals for 4 semesters. We gently steered him towards the Health Sciences table, so hopefully he’ll get a more accurate picture of the career.
One girl was so excited to see us. She said she wanted to be a surg tech or X-ray technician. Cool. Most people don’t know anything about us. We had a nice chat. After I gave her some information:
Student: Does the X-ray technician program have a table?
Me: You know, I’m not sure. Let me check. Hey B, do the X-ray techs have a table here?
B: Radiology? I’m not…
Student: (interrupts to ‘correct’ B): No, X-ray techs.
B: I’m not sure. The Health Sciences table (points) can help you.
Overall though, it was pretty amazing. We had students who were really interested, and many hadn’t heard of a surg tech. They asked really good questions and they loved playing with the surgical instruments.
Today our program participated in a career/college fair for some of the area high schools, so I was witness to these exchanges.
We had a table set up with a mannequin head and (foam) upper torso covered with a surgical drape that we were “operating on”. Several students walked by, did a double take, and asked “Is that a real body?” Why, yes, we brought half a human into the events center.
My fellow student gives spiel to high schooler while showing him the information packet. High schooler seems interested until he sees the degree plan (roughly a page long):
“I don’t like to do homework”. He appeared to be overwhelmed by the amount of classes one needed to take. Um, ok. Then during the course of the conversation he tells us he wants to be a nurse.
Does he not realize that nursing is going to be more difficult? They have to take classes like Mental Health Nursing and Childbearing and Management of Care, while going to clinicals for 4 semesters. We gently steered him towards the Health Sciences table, so hopefully he’ll get a more accurate picture of the career.One girl was so excited to see us. She said she wanted to be a surg tech or X-ray technician. Cool. Most people don’t know anything about us. We had a nice chat. After I gave her some information:
Student: Does the X-ray technician program have a table?
Me: You know, I’m not sure. Let me check. Hey B, do the X-ray techs have a table here?
B: Radiology? I’m not…
Student: (interrupts to ‘correct’ B): No, X-ray techs.
B: I’m not sure. The Health Sciences table (points) can help you.
Overall though, it was pretty amazing. We had students who were really interested, and many hadn’t heard of a surg tech. They asked really good questions and they loved playing with the surgical instruments.
I AM the evil bastard!
. I ask for a sternal saw, we get the guy cracked open and theres his heart just surrounded by blood.
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