Springfield Trade High School - Beaver Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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« These are two of the Medical Assistants. Alice Tarpinian, assisted by Patricia Clark, is pouring urine for centrifuging. ee Margaret Snyder is taking blood for a blood count on Gayle Holden. MEDICAL ASSISTANTS DEPARTMENT The one-year course for Medical Assistants was started at the request of the local Medical Academy. High school graduates, who take this course with Miss Gracey and a laboratory techniques instructor, are qualified to work in doctors’ offices. While their duties are primarily to assist with the medical services, they are also required to look after office routine. During February girls are often placed in doctors’ offices for part-time work. Laboratory work is given in co-operation with the Wesson Memorial Hospital, Springfield Hospital and Westfield Sanatorium. A rotating daily schedule permits two girls to spend the day working in the laboratory. Other practical experiences include that of assisting the school doctor with the physical examinations given to the freshman girls each fall, of helping with first aid in the school, and of arranging the chest X-ray schedule for the Hampden County Tuberculosis Association. Freda Lammer and Nicie Norman examine blood smears.

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DENTAL ASSISTING DEPARTMENT The aim of the Dental Assisting Department is to provide, in one year’s in- tensive training, the necessary experience that will lead to employment as an assistant in a dentist’s office. Practical experience is gained in the well-equipped school clinic. Dr. MacElliot and Mrs. Kendrick, a dental hygienist, are in charge of the clinic this year. Dr. MacElliot will give dental care to those students who do not have a reg- ular dentist. The girls assist Dr. MacElliot in his work on the students, which provides the same situations that will be encountered in any dentist’s office. Laboratory work is also one of the necessary skills which must be developed. Making and repairing dentures, making plaster molds and model teeth are a few of the many techniques which are learned. An X-ray machine and dark room facilities make it possible for the girls to learn the process of making and developing X-rays. The girls also gain experience in the art of receiving patients and in keeping records expertly and efficiently. In addition, courses are required in child psychology, first aid, nutrition, English and science. « Here Dr. MacElliott explains (to Marilyn Kelly and Elizabeth Zielinski) the laboratory procedures in the construction of a full denture. Dr. MacElliott is presenting classroom instruction in X-ray technique. Elizabeth Zielinski is holding a timer while an X-ray picture is being taken of Elizabeth McCarthy’s teeth.