Perry Initiative
December 9, 2016
High School Girls Learn Orthopaedic Surgical Techniques
Dec. 9, 2016 | Nearly 40 female high school students from across the state spent a Saturday at UAMS learning orthopaedic concepts like reconstructing knee ligaments and casting broken bones. The workshop was part of the Perry Outreach Program, designed to encourage young women to become orthopaedic surgeons and researchers. For six years, UAMS has…
October 22, 2014
Hands-on Practice Piques Interest in Orthopaedic Surgery
Oct. 22, 2014 | “Our main goal is to expose them early to show them they can do it”, said Ruth Thomas, M.D., professor of orthopaedic surgery and director of the UAMS Center for Foot and Ankle Surgery.
October 31, 2013
UAMS Hosts Perry Initiative Workshop Promoting Women in Orthopaedics
The sound of drills and saws vibrated throughout the halls of the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute Oct. 12 as 35 female high school students repaired fractures, fixed ACL tears and inserted rods into replica human bones.
November 13, 2012
Perry Initiative Promotes Women in Orthopaedics
Nov. 13, 2012 | Dozens of female medical students and high school students got a first-hand look recently into the world of the orthopaedic surgeon as part of a national initiative to increase the number of women in the field.
December 9, 2011
Young Women Explore Orthopaedics Careers
Dec. 9, 2011 | Saws buzzed and drills whirred on a recent Saturday as 28 young women with goggles and scrubs inserted rods into leg bones and repaired knee ligaments in a lab at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).