Dr. Xa Xiong, DC, MD and his family visited Madison, Wisconsin to help teach young Hmong American children about pursuing in the Medical Field as a future career. This workshop was done at Badger Rock Middle School during the Hmong Language & Culture Enrichment Program: Kawm Hnub No Rau Tag Kis, a six weeks program that support Hmong students by providing linguistically and culturally responsive learning through validation and affirmation of home language and home culture for the purpose of building and bridging the student to success in academia and mainstream society. This program nurtures the students to greater develop their educational, social, and Hmong skills to the utmost of their potential.
Dr. Xiong's family worked together to bring smiles and fun activities for the younger children in hopes that they may spread their horizons more approaching how amazing being a doctor could be. Dr. Xiong shared a power point about the importance of being a doctor and how choosing to learn everyday gives you the chance to do great things like saving lives. He also showed an animation video about the amazing tasks of a red blood cell does for the human body. On that day, the Xiong family made sure that everyone had the opportunity to experience what it would be like to be a doctor for a couple of hours. Dr. Xiong taught the young doctors how to use a stethoscope to listen to their heart beats as it pumped the blood to circulate the body. Dr. Xiong's Wife-Choua Yang and Emily (a Biomedical Sciences Student from Concordia University) taught the students how to take body temperature. Elizabeth (a third year medical student) and Elena taught the students how to use a blood pressure cuff to measure blood pressure readings and had they perform on each other. Einstein (Biomedical Sciences Student from UWM) and Alexander taught the students how to use a pulse oximeter to measure the body tissue oxygen level. All of the young students were amazingly fascinated with all of the medical devices. In the end, prizes were given to the young students as rewards for answering questions correctly. Per Dr. Xiong, “Having the opportunity to explore career options in an early age helps to activate the gene of education in the mind setting to succeed its goal.” The Xiong family said that they loved how everyone was so involved and always joyous even during the most simplest of conversations. This was a grand day to teach younger students about dreaming of the impossible and making it into a reality if they put their hearts to it and always be the optimists in their lives.
Dr. Xiong and his family would like to thank the Camp Director - Mai Zong Vue, Camp Co-Director Peng Her, Program Coodinators Zoua Vang and Tou Vang, the teachers, and all the students for the opportunity to be involved in such an incredible program to teach young people about the major importance of being a medical doctor.
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