Students visited a children's hospice

On September 26, the volunteer team of the “Era Caritas” sector of the Student Self-Government of KhNMU visited children in the children’s hospice, which is located in the KNP “City Children’s Hospital No. 5” of the Khmer Republic, and held the “Merry Consilium” event as part of the “Medical Background” project.

A team of students held an important and interesting class on the topic “The body as a whole”. This event was aimed at getting to know the child’s own body and its main organs. The lesson consisted of five parts.

The lesson began with getting to know the children, during which each one told something interesting about himself, told about his feelings and concerns. Then there was a story about our body in a conversational format. Students asked leading questions for children. They answered all questions with great encouragement. Next, work was carried out with a model of the human body. According to the named function, the children had to guess the organ that corresponds to it, after which the students were given a mock-up of the organ, which had to be placed in the correct place on the human mock-up. This helped the children to more clearly understand the topography of the organs inside the human body. External organs, such as skin, eyes, ears and nose, children could show on themselves and explore their own body. The children were completely immersed in the process and everyone wanted to try to guess first and many succeeded.

After that, the students together with the children moved to the fourth stage of the lesson, namely the study of the layered structure of the body. All the participants of the event were given pictures with a certain system of the body in section (covers, muscles, blood vessels, nervous system, internal organs, skeleton). The children formed teams and, together with the medical students, tried to assemble the correct sequence of layers.

Finally, children and students decided to consolidate knowledge about organs with the help of coloring pages. Having chosen one of the coloring options, the children had to color the organs and parts of the body in the correct colors. At the end of the lesson, the child received stickers with body organs.

Children and students were delighted with the event. After graduation, the students saw a lot of sincere emotions from the children and heard many words of thanks, and they are also looking forward to new meetings and events “Medical Background” from student volunteers of the team of the “Era Caritas” sector of the Student Self-Government of KhNMU.