Hands-on workshop encourages young women to pursue medicine, engineering careers
Saturday, November 10, 2018
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Hands-on workshop encourages young women to pursue medicine, engineering careers
Saturday, November 10, 2018: Saturdays are for adventure and/or power tool jobs, and today, the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) outfitted local high school girls with just that. Approximately 40 northern Nevada teenagers wearing safety goggles and with power tools, pins, clamps and rods in hand, sawed through artificial bone during mock surgery sessions while learning the basics of orthopedic surgery and engineering concepts.
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The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med), the Reno Orthopedic Clinic (ROC) Foundation and The Perry Initiative co-hosted two days of workshops for young women in northern Nevada to learn the basics of orthopedic surgery and engineering from local women surgeons and engineers.
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