IUPUI is Indiana's premier urban research university. The campus enrolls more than 30,000 students in 21 schools and academic units.
Central Indiana students from grades 5-12 visited IUPUI this week to take part in 'Doctor Camp and Camp Medical Detectives.' IUPUI students helped supervise their younger counterparts in how to take a pulse, study parts of the human anatomy and more.
Jun 04, 2012 — photo credit: John R. Gentry Jr.
Students had to learn how to handle fluids that are part of physical examinations.
Chad Flowers, a student in the IU School of Medicine, led one of the sessions that focused on the human kidney..
Learning how to listen to a patient's heartbeat is a vital step.
Students had an opportunity to work with life-sized models of the kidney.
Medical student Francesco Cardelli gives the youngsters a glimpse of the human anatomy.
Abinay Devarakonda (left) and Jarrod Hubbard (right) flank pre-med student Jessica Hashu. flank one of the IUPUI students in a discussion ...
Students also learned how to properly take a pulse.
David Fitch, a fourth-year medical student, led another session.
Visiting students used a 'doctor bag' (in purple) to help them conduct their exams.
A vision test was another part of the process -- follow the moving finger!
Cardelli showed students various models of the kidney.
A 'beauty' shot of the 'star' of the show for Doctor Camp was the kidney.
High school students got insights into the same lessons in the wonders of the human body.
The students learned to discuss the things they experienced.
Sessions encouraged close attention.
Counselor Derryl Miller uses a microscope to prepare more information for students.
Like their younger counterparts, the older students learned how to handle bodily fluids (or their fake 'stand-ins') for diagnosis ...
... but the work always benefits from close inspection.
Miller gives students a hands-on demonstration ...
... and points out the key point of the lesson.
IUPUI is Indiana's premier urban research university. The campus enrolls more than 30,000 students in 21 schools and academic units.