IU Medicine West lafayette Students Administer Vaccines

Students at IU Medicine West lafayette have volunteered to administer flu shot vaccinations.

Students are volunteering to administer covid-19 vaccinations.

News 18's peter hulett tells us how the students got involved.

Just one day after their final exams, iu medicine west lafayettte students are already back at work.

"being in the classroom, first and second year students, we don't get a chance to really say thank you as much as we would like to" thats catherine burns, who is a second year medical student and vice president of personnel for their student outreach clinic.

In fact, 25 second year medical students are putting down books and picking up seringes.

The students had already been trained to administer flu shot vaccinations.

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