Does Your Child Want to Become a Doctor?

¿Thank you very much for the package received. I have thoroughly looked at it with a colleague of mine and find it excellent!¿ - Medical Professor Detlef R. Prozesky, BSc, MBChB, MCommH, PhD

"Here's How You Can Make Your Child's Dream to Become a Doctor Come True...¿

The Apprentice Doctor¿ Medical Course is contained on an interactive CD-ROM.

The CD-ROM teaches the learner medical principles, medical procedures and how to examine a patient.

Each lesson has some practical projects associated with it...

Project 1 ¿ Effective washing of hands.
The student must learn the technique as the first step towards understanding the importance of the ¿sterile chain¿. In the UK +-10 000 deaths occur yearly and is blamed on poor aseptic technique - like washing of hands! The simple task of washing hands is indeed a matter of life and death! Surgeons use a special technique to scrub before surgery.

Project 2 ¿ Keeping proper records.
Record keeping when examining a patient is of utmost importance. Using a systematic approach when examining a patient and keeping proper records will assist the diagnostician with the diagnostic process and will go a long way to avoid annoying medico-legal issues. Acquire the right habits from the start!

Project 3 - Understand Medical Principles of Sound.
Doctors use a stethoscope to listen to bodily sounds. Understanding the basic principles of sound is absolutely essential!

Project 4 - Use the Otoscope to Examine the Ear.
See photographs of the eardrum as seen with an Otoscope in health and disease ¿ then examine family and friends' ears/eardrums.

Project 5 - Understand Medical Principles of Light.
An examination light is one of the most important examination tools of any healthcare professional. Build on a good foundation and get the basic principles right!

Project 6 ¿ How to Examine the Eye.
It is said that the eye is the window to the body. Examining the eye reveals a great amount of information about the health status of the eye ¿ and the rest of the body!

Project 7 - Use the Snellen Test Chart to Perform a Visual Acuity Test of the eye.
Despite cutting edge technology, the Snellen visual acuity test is still worldwide the most reliable screening test to assess a patient¿s vision.

Project 8 - Find a Person's Blind Spot.
Learn how the determine a person¿s blind spot and why it is important.

Project 9 - How to Use Your Medical Instruments
Learn about the Sphygmomanometer. A basic understanding of ¿the tools of the trade¿ divides the amateurs from the professionals!

Project 10 - Practice Using the Stethoscope.
As a healthcare professional the stethoscope will be what a pen is in a writers hand. Take time to get familiar with this tool before using it on real patients.

Project 12 & 13 - Use the Marker Pen and Ruler to Plot the Organs in the Chest and Abdomen.
Know the exact position of organs like the heart, lungs, liver, spleen, kidneys, appendix etc. This is how surgeons know to cut in the right place.

Project 14 - Build a Percussion Model of the Chest.
Percussion is one of the six basic examination tools that doctors utilize on a daily basis. Study the basics on a model that you can easily construct using household items.

Project 17-19 - Use the Penlight to Examine the Skin, Nails and Hair.
The skin and nails reveals quite a bit of information about the health of the body. Thinking of becoming a dermatologist or nutritionist ¿ pay special attention to these projects!

Project 21 - Use the Stethoscope to Examine the Joints.
Some joints send out audible signals offering information about their structural integrity to the clinician.

Project 22 - Take a Body Temperature.
Still one of the most basic though most important skills that healthcare professionals need ¿ don¿t get caught out by the apparent simplicity of this skill.

Project 23 - Examine the Muscular System.
Get acquainted with all the muscles of the human body with the help of a number of professional body builders!

Project 24 - 41
Examine the Cardiovascular System, Nervous System, Digestive System, and other systems of the human body. Learn how to interpret heart sounds and other bodily sounds. Learn how to accurately take blood pressure readings, elicit neurological reflexes, listen and assess an unborn baby¿s heartbeat, etc¿

...and much more!

You might be asking, "How does my child do these things if they don't have the medical instruments I'm talking about?"

The medical instruments needed for the practical projects are INCLUDED with the set and in the price.

The Apprentice Doctor Set contains the interactive CDROM, a stethoscope, penlight, tongue depressors, antiseptic prep pads, medical file with charts, non-latex examination gloves, and a surgical face mask.

Your child will use each of these instruments and items as they work through the CD-ROM, step-by-step.

Considering that you get real medical instruments with the CD-ROM included in the package, The Apprentice Doctor¿ Set could easily sell for R500 - R1000.

Why not also recommend this to your child's biology or career guidance teacher.