The course will be a half day program which includes an ice breaker, career panel, and hands-on experience where students will experience casting, x-ray interpretation, orthopaedic hardware placement and ex-fix.
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
Provide early orthopaedic
trauma exposure to local high
school women and underrepresented/
underserved minority
students at the OTA Annual
Meeting.
Encourage orthopaedic careers
in students from communities
that are significantly underrepresented
in orthopaedic
surgery.
Provide hands-on exposure to
orthopaedic procedures
Profile additional career paths
that intersect with medicine
and orthopaedic surgery
