Program Highlights:

Service Project Description:

• Fitting the prosthetic universal socket for amputees

• Teaching and training patients to walk with the prosthetic device

• Follow-up on patients during 1 to 2 weeks of occupational training

• Data collection for each patient during the training period using F-scan

• Expose Mercer students to Vietnamese culture through sightseeing and attending one or more cultural programs during the stay

• Visit one or more local hospitals in Vietnam

• Treating orthopedic patients

• Physical therapy for patients' rehabilitation

• Charity work with poor and needy: distribution of food and medications.

Tentative Dates:   June 3 - 24, 2010

Tentative Excursion:  Visit to Cambodia and Laos during weekends.