Our next issue will be Thursday, Sept. 30. Deadline for that issue is Thursday, Sept. 23. UWeek is published each Thursday during fall, winter and spring quarters. Mary Larimer Reprinted with permission of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. To launch their new medical student chapter of Operation Smile, a group of UW students organized a suturing workshop for students to practice wound-closure techniques.
Pigs feet are the traditional practice medium for suturing.
Local physicians William Nichols, Mark Brakstad, Alison Perrin and Kent Saltonstall donated their time to work with the students. Operation Smile is a non-profit volunteer organization that provides reconstructive facial surgery to indigent children and young adults in 16 developing countries and the United States. In the photo, Alison Perrin gives suturing tips to Jan Gruber, left, and Joseph Dumba. Both are third-year medical students.