Creating better casts | Children's National

Creating better casts | Children's National

Creating better casts

Each year, millions of children in the U.S. come to hospital emergency departments with fractures. While broken bones are commonplace, the expertise to stabilize these injuries and cast them often is not.

That’s why orthopedic surgeon Shannon Kelly, M.D., and her colleagues are developing a better way to train interns before they start their orthopedics rotation. Starting this spring, the team will be directing a series of casting workshops to train interns on the proper casting technique.