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New equipment to give students skills needed on the job.
[caption id="attachment_45935" align="alignleft" width="284"] Radiation therapy students, some playing the role as health care provider while others fill in as patients, work on creating VacLoc bags, which are used in cancer centers for treatment. The bags, funded by a College of Science and Health grant, provided the students specific skills they will need with they begin internships in July.[/caption]
A College of Science and Health grant is helping radiation therapy students get practical experience. On April 21, the radiation therapy class of 2017 created immobilization devices to use in their career as radiation therapists working with cancer patients.
The SAH grant allowed the program to purchase a VacLoc pump that gave the students the ability to create VacLoc bags on fellow classmates. VacLoc bags are used universally in cancer centers to assure patients are lined up properly each day for treatment.
“It is essential that the students understand how and why these devices are made,” explains Amanda Carpenter, clinical coordinator for the radiation therapy program. “The class of 2017 feels more at ease with this process and will be able to show off their newly learned skills when they begin their internships in July.”