MedStart Summer Camp
Health Career Exploration Through a One-week Summer Camp for Incoming 11th & 12th Graders.
MedStart Summer Camp is an AHEC funded program designed to encourage junior and senior high school students to pursue their interest in a variety of healthcare careers. AHEC focuses on accepting students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds, low-income families, rural areas, minorities, or will be first in their family to attend college. The aim of MedStart is to provide students who may not otherwise have the opportunity a chance to further explore healthcare careers, learn about college life, and realize it is possible to pursue higher education. Students often think of healthcare as including only “doctors and nurses” and MedStart tries to break down that stereotype by educating students on the large variety of high skill, high paid, high demand careers available in the healthcare industry. MedStart is completely free of charge to the students.
MedStart is a week long program and offers many opportunities to students. Curriculum sessions during the week include sheep heart dissection, blood typing, suturing on pig’s feet, job shadowing, and taking blood pressures. College Support sessions included a financial aid presentation, a current health profession student panel, and a campus tour. Recreation and Social sessions can include things such as bowling, hiking, museum trips, Lewis and Clark Caverns, rafting trips, and a Zoo Montana tour. After camp each regional AHEC office matches the MedStart student with a healthcare professional from their hometown in the hopes of establishing a mentor/mentee relationship and continuing the job shadowing process.
There will be 4 camps during the summer of 2012:
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- Billings – MSU-B Campus: June 24th-29th, 2012
- Missoula – U of M Campus: June 24th-29th, 2012
- Bozeman – MSU Campus: June 24th-30th, 2012
- Great Falls - University of Great Falls Campus: July 8th-13th, 2012
On the application students have the option to rank the above 4 camps in order of preference. The 2012 MedStart application deadline will be March 16, 2012. 110 total students will be accepted state-wide.
For more information, please contact Bergen Morehouse, South Central Montana AHEC, Assistant Director 406.683.2790 or bergen@mtha.org
Applications for MedStart 2012 are now avaliable! Click here to download the file
