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