Students visited Hospital for Special Surgery in New York and got coaching from the doctors
When EMT Vincent Tartaglia is not busy saving lives, he finds time to volunteer as a Citizen Teacher with Citizen Schools at the Global Tech Prep Middle School in Harlem. This semester he has taken students from having minimal medical response knowledge to being able to recite and perform CPR steps with ease.
On their recent visit to the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, the local ABC station happened to be there–so they filmed a story on the young surgeons!
Watch the video:
Apprentices at Hospital for Special Surgery on ABC
As the clip shows, Vincent’s training has captured the kids’ imaginations. They can not only identify a blood pressure cuff, but actually walk you through the steps of applying it, identifying the proper artery and noting the differences between systolic and diastolic pressures.
He has been teaching with Citizen Schools staff member Holley Murchison, a Harlem native, radio personality, change agent, and Twitter regular.
“One of our funnier moments happened when 6th grader Jean Carlos shouted out, ‘Don’t you give up on me!” to our CPR dummy during an in-class review,” Holley says.
Holley summarizes their upcoming WOW!:
“Students will be creating three stations: one where they will perform a skit that they’ve written on responding to a medical emergency, another where they’ll teach WOW! guests how to properly perform CPR using our dummy (who they’ve affectionately named ‘SpongeBob’), and a final station where students will simulate a clinic–checking and recording the vital signs of guests (blood pressure and pulse) and also walk guests through the process of how to take vitals on their own.”
ABC didn’t give credit to Citizen Schools, Vincent, or Holley–so give them a 1-2-3 Nice with me.
