Medical Sciences Chapter of the Internal Medicine Student Interest Group

The Medical Sciences chapter of the Internal Medicine Student Interest Group recently sponsored a health fair at the Monroe County Public Library. The students completely organized this event themselves, raising money and recruiting sponsors to provide an afternoon of information, blood pressure checks and laboratory screening. It was a great success with both first and second year students participating. Below are some pictures from the health fair. We anticipate this being a yearly even, so if you are interested, please plan on helping with next year's health fair.

Heather Andrews (second-year student, class of 2010) takes discusses the results of a serum cholesterol value with a visitor to the health fair.

This station included blood sugar and cholesterol screening. The tests were done at no charge to the visitor, and results were available within minutes.

People with abnormal values were instructor to contact their doctor.

Emily Merryman (second-year student, class of 2010) discusses food options and healthy snacks with a brother and sister. Other nutrition related stations demonstrated serving sizes, fat and sugar content of various foods, and visitors could even have their body mass index (BMI) calculated.

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