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Partnering with University of Minnesota Medical School to Enhance Student Learning
St. Anthony Village High School was the first high school approached by the University of Minnesota’s Medical School to establish an outreach program. Fortunately for the students in Anatomy and Physiology and Advanced Placement Biology, Dr. Hergenrader immediately recognized the partnership as a "pretty amazing opportunity for our kids."
On Friday, October 23, Dr. Hergenrader accompanied students to the University of Minnesota’s Medical School where they spent the day in the Department of Urology. In the morning, students from SAVHS listened to University professors discuss their specialties, watched videos of surgeries and used the Medical School’s 3-D program to watch a presentation of a surgery. “The 3-D glasses made us feel like we were really there,” explained Dr. Hergenrader. In the afternoon, students learned how to suture skin—using bananas as a substitute—made “skin” in the medical modeling area of the department and performed virtual reality surgeries using instruments that are usually reserved for medical students. In this activity, students attempted to remove a gall bladder and place a scope in the trachea of a person through their nasal passage. “It was a very unique opportunity for our kids and the start of what we hope to be a long term relationship with the University,” Dr. Hergenrader concluded.