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September Session Recap: A Doctor’s Toolkit
At September’s session of the Ladder, medical scholars of all ages had the opportunity to not only learn about but also to try out some of the core tools physicians use in patient care, including: stethoscopes (<– one of the universally recognized … Continue reading
Next Ladder Session – Sept. 13th: A Doctor’s Toolkit!
Lots of professions make use of tools and gadgets to get the job done: Doctors also use plenty of tools, equipment, gear and gadgets to help in assessing patients’ conditions: At September’s session of the Ladder, you’ll have the opportunity … Continue reading
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Next Ladder Meeting – August 9th: Organs!
Wait no – not THAT kind of organ (although – those kinds of organs are incredibly cool!) – we’re talking about THESE kinds of organs: At the next Ladder meeting this coming Saturday, August 9th – we’ll be learning all about … Continue reading
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Tagged heart, kidneys, lung, medical mentorship, North Minneapolis, organs, pancreas, spleen, The Ladder, UROC, youth development
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July Meeting Recap: Infectious Disease!
July’s meeting of The Ladder brought together medical scholars of all ages to the UROC in North Minneapolis to learn about infectious disease. In addition to learning about different varieties and causes of infectious disease, we learned about those folks in medicine & … Continue reading
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June Meeting Recap: ENT Medicine & Physiology
At June’s meeting of the Ladder, medical scholars gathered for food, fun and learning about ENT (ears/nose/throat) medicine and physiology! First, while sharing lunch in small groups, medical scholars introduced themselves to one another and spent some time sharing perspectives on a couple of particularly relevant thoughts from … Continue reading
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Next Meeting of The Ladder – June 14th: Ear/Nose/Throat Medicine & Surgery
Otolaryngology. Say what? Try oh-toe-lare-in-gol-oh-jee. Also known as ear/nose/throat medicine, or just ENT for short. The field of medicine encompasses not only some of the longest, most tongue-twisting, Latin & Greek-rooted terms you’ll ever have to hear/read/pronounce, but also plenty of impressively tidy abbreviations. Ear/nose/throat medicine has all the phenomenal cosmic … Continue reading
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May Meeting Recap: Bones!
Saturday’s meeting of the Ladder saw a great turnout of medical scholars ages 9-99 (and even a few younger!) on a beautiful sunny Spring day in North Minneapolis to share lunch, connect with each other, learn, and (never to be overlooked) have … Continue reading
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Tagged bones, medical mentorship, North Minneapolis, skeletal system, skeleton, The Ladder, UROC
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Next Meeting of the Ladder – May 10th: Bones!
What do you know about bones? You probably know you have a whole lot of them, and that without them you’d have a pretty rough time doing much of anything. At the next meeting of the Ladder we’ll learn all about bones … Continue reading
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Tagged bones, health careers, medical mentorship, Mentoring, N. Mpls, North Minneapolis, skeleton, The Ladder, UROC
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April Meeting Recap: “Asthma! And Asthma.”
Saturday’s meeting of the Ladder was all about asthma – or as medical scholar Renee put it: “Asthma! And Asthma.” Punctuating asthma with both a “!” and “.” was to teach us about asthma not only as an acute condition … Continue reading
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Next Meeting of The Ladder – April 12th: Asthma
At a previous gathering of The Ladder, we learned all about the lungs. Maybe you’ve heard of asthma – a condition that keeps the lungs from functioning as awesomely as they should. At April’s meeting of the Ladder we’ll learn specifically about asthma … Continue reading
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