Ideas for Student Club Activities

Get inspired with ideas for your ACFAS Student Club.

To foster collaboration and inspire fresh ideas among clubs, we've compiled a list of activities successfully organized by other ACFAS Student Clubs in previous years. This list will be updated as activity reports from the current year are submitted:

Workshops

  • Podiatric Medicine Skills
  • Suturing 1st Year
  • Suturing 2nd Year: Simple and Complex Suturing Techniques (given by residents)
  • Gowning and Gloving
  • Surgical Instruments
  • Bk Casting
  • External Fixation
  • Video of a Bunionectomy
  • Cadaver Workshop on Proper Nail Avulsion Technique
  • Saw Bone Workshop on First Ray Surgical Procedures
  • 1st Year: Hallux Block Injection Workshop
  • 2nd Year: Injection Workshop
  • Radiology
  • Cadaver Skin Lines Workshop
  • Knot Tying Session
  • Laparoscopic Lab
  • External Fixation Devices- Informational Lab

 

Guest Lecture Topics

  • Treatment of Gas Producing Infections
  • Charcot Foot Reconstruction
  • External Fixation
  • DuPuy Orthopedics:Surgical Plate and Screw Sets Presentation
  • Ankle Fractures and Traumatological Injury Classifications
  • Ankle Replacements
  • Hallux Varus: The Deviant Toe
  • Surgery in Modern Podiatry
  • Lauge-Hansen Ankle Fracture Classification
  • Informational Q&A on Podiatry Residencies


Student Club Communications

  • Introductory dinner meeting for new ACFAS Student Club members
  • Suture practice kit, practice suture and printed technique instructions as a “thank you” gift for joining blub
  • Most Outstanding Member in Suturing Labs: Given a free textbook
  • Student Club newsletter
  • Display at school’s activity fair
  • Display at ACFAS Annual Scientific Conference – poster submission


Fundraising

  • T-shirt sales
  • Bake sales
  • Foot candy/chocolate sales


Community Involvement

  • Partnership with diabetes awareness group; World Diabetes event with free foot screenings and dducational lectures for community
  • Toys for Tots