UTMB Tour - March, 2006 :
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UTMB Tour - March, 2006 : |
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| On Friday, March 14, 2006, the ACC HAMS organization toured the Surgical, Nursing and Radiological schools at UTMB in Galveston Island. The student who attended were Rebeka Hartley, Lauren Britt, Fernando Lugo, Francis Kiefel, Nathan Perkins and club sponsor Gwendolyn Burgess. Our guide for the tour on campus was Mr. Steven Stone. We began our tour with the Ashbel Smith building , also affectionately referred to as Old Red as shown below : |
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inside, the hallway was flanked by the fathers of medicine dating from the
ancient times of Hippocrates and Galen, to the medical scientist who made
great contribution of today.
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First stop was the Amphitheater, which at one time was actual used to teach
medicine. Today, it is now used as a lecture hall. See photo below :
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On the other side of the lecture hall was the Gross Anatomy lab as pictured above. In addition to being the human dissection lab, the room also housed quite a collection of human anatomy : Preserved Body Parts, Dissected Boy, Dissected Head 1, Dissected Head 2, Dissected Leg, Neck Dissection, Preserved Fetus', Sagittal Section of a Head, Skull Bones and the Brain.
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After the tour of the Gross Anatomy Lab, HAMS left Old Red, but not before
taking this group shot shown to the right. Front row : Gwendolyn
Burgess, Francis Kiefel, Middle Row : Rebeka Hartley, Back Row : Nathan
Perkins, Lauren Britt and Fernando Lugo.
The next stop was UTMB's school of Nursing as shown above :
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The show case of the nursing school was its nursing simulation lab in which
computerized dummies simulated various signs and symptoms for the nursing
students to react to.
Next on the tour was the Radiological Center which is responsible for medical imaging. With this technology, one can literaly follow the coarse of the airways from the trachea through man secondary and tertiary branches of the bronchi.
All-in-all, it was a very productive tour and our thanks goes out to all who made this event happen. Perhaps one day, someone from HAMS's will attend UTMB in the future? |
The school even had patient dummies who simulated pregnancies and the complications which could arise.
HAMS's was also shown the construction of the new Class IV Infectious disease center. See above photo. This will be one of two facilities in the United States. Safety was an issue due to Galveston being an island and prone to hurricanes. However, we were reassured that all protocols would be in place of such a disastrous event. Another building of prominence was the hospital for the Texas inmate population. UTMB is under contract for all convict patient care of those prison facilities east of I-35. Although the building looks like a normal hospital from the outside, we were rest assured that there were bars behind those windows. See photo below :
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