Lexie Maeck wasn't expecting to be doing an ultrasound on another person when she visited The Ottawa Hospital's Civic campus on Monday.

The 16-year-old from Ottawa is trying to figure out what she wants to do after high school and was one of more than 200 high school students from around eastern Ontario doing hands-on workshops during the second Destination: Family Medicine event.

The University of Ottawa organizes it to give students a glimpse of what family doctors do so they might get them interested in the field.

"What I had originally thought they [did] … was mostly just appointments at clinics and strep tests. But they do a lot more than that," Maeck said.

Students also got to learn how to cast a limb, deliver babies (via a simulation), insert an intrauterine device (IUD) and h

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