Chapters Transcript Video Cedars-Sinai Orthopaedics Inspires Young Women With drills, saws, and hammers, young women are getting a close up hands-on experience at Cedars-Sinai into the field of orthopedic surgery. Traditionally, the representation of women in science, engineering and math lags behind. In particular, biomedical engineering and orthopedics could do better with the female representation. And so this is a way to do some outreach and show them that you can. Have a family and have a career and be a woman and also be an orthopedic surgeon. During a two day interactive experience known as the Perry Initiative, Cedar Sinai hosted over 50 high school and medical students from across Los Angeles to learn from top female orthopedic surgeons and researchers. They're learning a lot about the careers that they could have in engineering and orthopedics, but then. The hands on component where they learn about suturing, casting, and then right now we're actually doing a little bit of hands on orthopedic work with power tools, drills, and saws to fix fractures or models of fractures and do ligament reconstructions as if someone had a multi-ligament injury to their knee. It's really hard to drill. Only 10% of orthopedic surgeons are women, but programs This one at Cedars-Sinai are trying to change that. What I love with these workshops is when you see students start off being kind of intimidated by the power tools because they've never used one before, and then by the end of the day they're like, I think that this fracture needs a bunch more screws. We need to put some more screws in. And so we really hope that this will encourage more and more women to be interested in not just the scientists but specifically biomedical engineering and orthopedic surgery. Created by
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