{"id":75398,"date":"2018-02-23T13:48:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T23:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=75398"},"modified":"2020-03-13T15:13:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T01:13:54","slug":"molokai-health-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/23\/molokai-health-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Teens attend Moloka\u02bbi’s first-ever health camp"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Left: A demonstration of a cast formed from the layers of the trunk of a coconut tree. Right: A JABSOM student removes a plaster cast.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Molokaʻi<\/span> teens experienced the job of a medical professional at the Friendly Island’s first health camp, courtesy of the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a>‘s John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> (JABSOM<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n

JABSOM hosted 51 eager teens, medical students and health career volunteers in demonstrations highlighting both western and traditional Native Hawaiian medicine.<\/p>\n

The February 17 activities were based at the Molokaʻi<\/span> Education Center<\/a> in Kaunakakai that is operated by UH<\/abbr> Maui College<\/a>. In seven different workshops, the teens got to feel what it might be like to work in a health-care field.<\/p>\n

For example, they learned how to suture a simulated wound on a faux limb, which resembled the arm of a store window mannequin with padding.<\/p>\n

In another workshop, they made, applied and removed casts to stabilize broken bones. There were two types of casts: one of traditional plaster used in western medicine, and another using a stiff layer from the trunk of a coconut tree, the way of ancient Native Hawaiian healers.<\/p>\n

The teens were paired with volunteer medical students from JABSOM<\/abbr> to practice taking vital signs (recording temperature, weight, heartbeat, pulse and blood pressure) and to discuss nutrition and how infectious diseases spread.<\/p>\n

See the full story at the JABSOM<\/abbr> website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

—By Tina Shelton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The John A. Burns School of Medicine sponsored the community event in Kaunakakai for youngsters interested in a career in medical career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[165,31,9,60],"class_list":["post-75398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-health","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75398"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113705,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75398\/revisions\/113705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}