MedStart Summer Camp
A one-week summer camp for those incoming 11th & 12th graders who are interested in a healthcare career.
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, rafting trips, etc. 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!
- Great Falls-U of GF campus: July 8-13th, 2012
- Billings – MSU-B Campus: June 24th - 29th, 2012
- Missoula – U of M Campus: June 24th-29th, 2012
- Bozeman – MSU Campus: June 24th-30th, 2012
On the application students have the option to rank the above 4 camps in order of preference. The 2011 MedStart application deadline was March 1, 2011. We received 140 applications to fill the 72 total slots state-wide. MedStart 2012 we will be accepting 110 students state-wide.
For more information, please contact Kailyn Dorhauer, NC AHEC Program Coordinator at kailyn.dorhauer@montana.edu
Additional Information:
2012 MedStart Application
2011 MedStart Students
2010 MedStart Students
