Media Invited to EMMC for UMaine Health Professions Club Knee Replacement Demo
Contact: Rebecca Dyer, (207) 650-9600; Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777
A group of students from the University of Maine’s Health Professions Club will have the chance to participate in a hands-on knee replacement demonstration and skills lab at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Mach 25, at Eastern Maine Medical Center’s Brown Conference Room.
The session is being held by Dr. Ian Dickey, an orthopedic surgeon with UMaine ties. Working with a team of UMaine researchers, Dickey is testing the potential of foam metals for use in bone and joint repair.
“Typically students who are pre-professional are learning things on a cellular level or whole organism level when it comes to how systems work, but not how that applies to what they’ll be doing in medical school,” says Rebecca Dyer, the UMaine Health Professions Club president.
Wednesday will provide an opportunity for students to learn more about orthopedic surgery, but also what medical school might be like. Most students in the health club are planning to attend medical school, or want to be an optometrist, dentist or chiropractor.
“I don’t think you can really know whether you like or dislike something by studying it without practical application,” says Dyer.
Members of the media are invited to attend the session to speak with Dickey and the approximately 20 UMaine students expected to attend.