Keeping Communities Healthy

First-year medical student Shawn Gibson chats with a community member as he records her heart rate and other health information.

Nonye Odukwe, a first-year medical student, gives Eloise Hunter an enthusiastic welcome to the health fair.

Among the health screenings that students conducted was a pulse oximetry, performed with the device shown here, called a “pulse ox,” that measures the amount of oxygen in a person’s blood.

Shawn Gibson (left) and Jarrett White (center) talk with Percell Walker as they prepare to take his pulse ox reading.

A student records patient data, including weight, heart rate and the amount of oxygen in the blood.

Hopewell Baptist Pastor Dennis Lee (left) gets his blood pressure taken by Sherice Simpson, a first-year medical student.

First-year medical student Nonye Odukwe chats with a representative of The Witness Project, a community-based program that promotes cancer screening and sponsored a table at the fair.

Connie Jefferson vividly demonstrates to first-year medical student Ellen Lutnick that her exercise of choice is boxing.