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13 January 2023

Another year, another amazing 'Medical Mavericks' workshop for our Year 6 medics-in-training. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the hands on experience of using real medical equipment which you can read all about it in their words below!

New equipment this year included a Doppler machine. The girls enjoyed holding the same type of equipment which allowed their parents to hear their foetal heartbeats in the womb but using it in our Lab to hear our blood moving through our arteries.

'The workshop was amazing. I really liked using the reflex hammer to test my reflexes. It was so strange seeing my leg pop up automatically when you hit below your knee in just the right place!' - Sophie

'I liked practising to be a surgeon using the laparoscopy trainer. You had to be careful and precise like a real surgeon. Nia, Niamh and I challenged each other to do it really quickly. We were aiming for four minutes and I did it in five. Niamh did it really quickly and is a true surgeon!' - Helin

'I absolutely loved the experience because I was able to have hands-on experiences using equipment I would never get to us. I learnt so much! I really enjoyed taking blood out of the arm!' - Lucy

‘As soon as I heard Medical Mavericks were doing a workshop with girls in Year 6 I was very excited! I had done one of their Sports Science workshop over the summer and thoroughly enjoyed it. What amazing things would I see and use at a Medical workshop?

‘They came into the Science Lab and let Year 6 have a go at using real medical equipment! We took our pulses, wore different glasses that simulated different eye diseases (my personal favourite, and many others, were the 'drunk glasses', used by police to educate people about the dangers of drink driving) and took blood from Handy Andy. (Don’t worry it was a rubber arm!)

‘It was amazing fun! We also checked to see if we are still growing by looking at the growth plate in our wrist using an ultrasound machine, tested our reactions by using a medical hammer on our knees, did keyhole surgery (laparoscopy), by threading shoelaces through holes using little robot arms, which was harder than it looked! We even measured our height to see how tall we were compared to other things. I’m as tall as the length of my large intestines. Medical Mavericks is definitely a workshop I will remember!’ - Grace

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