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| Issue: # 11 |
February/2010 |
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Connecting Students to Health Careers
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| Greetings!
So what is this "Pipeline"?
The "pipeline" can be envisioned as a variety of experiences,
over the course of a student's entire education,
that altogether help that student
consider, prepare for, and enter a health care profession.
What kind of experiences?
* A classroom visit from a doctor or dentist
* The Great Hospital Adventure puppet show
* A class tour of a veterinary clinic
* Math problems that use health care situations
* Job shadowing with a physical therapist
* A visit to the Hands on Health exhibition
* A math and science enrichment program
* A health careers panel
*A HOSA chapter
* Participation in Med Start, a health careers summer camp
And of course, all the way along,
supportive, interested teachers and educators
who are well-informed about health careers!
The Pipeline is all about nurturing the potential in each student, inspiring them to dream big, and helping them reach their goals.
Montana's AHECs are here to build this pipeline to health careers
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Health Career Exploration Through a One-week Summer Camp for Incoming 11th & 12th Graders.
The South Central Montana AHEC, in conjunction with state-wide AHECs, is coordinating a FREE one-week summer camp for high school students entering their Junior or Senior year in the fall of 2010.
The camp will be from July 18th - 25th and will take place on the MSU campus in Bozeman. Activities will include job shadowing at local healthcare facilities, health science symposiums such as tours of the cadaver lab, prosthetics lab, and surgery center, as well as financial aid guidance for college and guest speakers on many healthcare related topics! Many social events will take place as well!
Application materials will be sent to ALL High School Counselors by mid-March. Thirty students will be accepted state-wide.
For more information, please contact Bergen Morehouse, South Central Montana AHEC, Program Coordinator 406.683.2790 or bergen@mtha.org |
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Disaster Preparedness & Food Safety Toolkits - FREE Courses for Health Science Teachers!
The Southwest Center for Public Health Preparedness & Oklahoma Department of Career & Technology Education announce the offering of FREE courses for health science teachers!
Disaster Volunteer Toolkit:
This site has several modules that allows the participant to gain access to information that will prepare them to be disaster volunteers.
Food Safety Toolkit:
Module 1 - Potentially Hazardous Food: Details different types of potentially hazardous foods and the temperatures that promote or demote harmful bacteria growth in these foods.
Module 2 - Critical Temperatures: The process of cooking foods for a long enough time, at a high enough temperature to kill harmful bacteria.
Module 3 - Infective Doses: Explanation of the significance of infective doses of bacteria in food.
Module 4 - Hand Washing: The importance of hand washing, how, when and why to wash your hands.
Module 5 - Cross-Contamination: Emphasis on the importance of keeping foods separate and properly washing all materials used in cooking before using them with other foods.
Module 6 - Final Word: The significance of keeping up with food recalls and knowing where food came from.
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| Childhood Obesity Screening & Surveillance |
A Webinar Brought to you by the Rural Health Initiative
This webinar will focus on the measurement of children in schools or other settings and will cover:
- Planning, Safety and Confidentiality
- Engaging parents and health care professionals in the community
- What to consider and how to proceed
- Measurement protocols
- Calculating BMI and plotting age- and sex-specific BMI percentile
Thursday, February 11, 2010 9:00 - 10:30
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/567078859
Call in: (888) 617-3400: Room: 695912
Presented by:
Barbara J. Moore, PhD* and Rachel Pahut, RN
Montana Nutrition and Physical Activity Program
Marias Medical Center, Shelby, MT
*If you are unable to attend the live session, this webinar will be recorded & posted online to view at your convenience. Please contact Shalina Mirza to receive the link and for connection details/questions: shalina.mirza@montana.edu 994-5310.
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| School Wellness Policy: Mini-Grant Opportunity |
Apply for a$5,000 Mini-Grant for your School!
The Montana Team Nutrition (MTN) Program announces a competitive grant opportunity in support of school wellness policy implementation efforts. With funds from the 2009 USDA Team Nutrition Training Grant, the Montana Office of Public Instruction will award ten $5,000 mini grants to school districts that participate in the National School Lunch and/or Breakfast Programs throughout Montana.
This School Wellness Policy In Action Mini Grant is being offered in response to the need for increased support for school wellness policy implementation at the local level. The purpose of the grant is to support the creation of sustainable healthy school nutrition environments. Grant goals are a) to partially fund a school wellness coordinator to direct wellness activities; or b) to carry out action steps of school wellness policy implementation plans.
A total of $50,000 for mini-grants (up to $5,000 each) will be awarded to school districts through a competitive process.
The application must be received by March 5, 2010.
An electronic version of this application is available at the Office of Public Instruction, School Nutrition Programs Web site at
There will be an opportunity for technical assistance through a conference call on February 9, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.. Pre-registration is required for these calls. To Pre-register, email your name, email address and telephone number to maryann.harris@montana.edu |
| Grant Opportunity for Native American Tribes |
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Service Learning Focus...
Grants of up to $120,000 will be awarded to Indian tribes and U.S. territories working to engage school-age youth in service-learning projects that simultaneously support student development and meet community needs.
The grants will specifically fund programs that focus on the following priorities: supporting high-quality service-learning sponsored by Indian tribes and U.S. territories and enhancing the infrastructure in schools and communities to support on-going service-learning programming; supporting Indian tribes and U.S. territories working with schools to expand service-learning into more tribal communities that will involve students in service-learning projects; increasing student civic, academic, and leadership skills and providing youth with service-learning experiences that motivate them to become more civically engaged and committed to lifelong service; and promoting healthy communities and healthy youth by having students engage in service-learning projects that address one or more of the following issue areas: health and wellness; environment; retention of tribal language, history, and culture, community development/economic development, and crime prevention/violence prevention.
The deadline is March 9.
For more information, please visit: http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=282900006 |
| Health Career Spotlight: Disaster Medical Specialist |
In the wake of the recent earthquake in Haiti and other natural disasters, now more ever, there is a desperate need for practitioners who are trained in emergency preparedness.
 Disaster medicine is a fairly new specialty for doctors who want to be "first on the scene" of an emergency that involves mass injury or illness. Physicians
The practice of disaster medicine focuses on three phases of response:
- Pre-disaster planning
- Patient triage at the disaster site
- Transport and care of the victims
A natural disaster, like a hurricane or earthquake, or a man-made emergency, such as a train derailment or a terrorist attack, can involve hundreds or even thousands of victims.
Disaster medical specialists aim to minimize casualties from these incidents by reaching the site as quickly as possible, evaluating and stabilizing the victims, and evacuating them to health care facilities. They are trained to provide care "in the field" and to manage teams of health care professionals, first responders and volunteers.
Disaster medical specialists work in various clinical jobs when they are not deployed as part of a disaster response team. Such jobs can include primary care clinics and offices, emergency departments, specialty clinics, etc. The bottom line is that disaster medical specialists can come from any medical or surgical specialty provided they have the additional training that enables them to function in austere conditions under incredible pressure.
The National Average Salary for a Disaster Medical Specialist is $150,00 - $300,000.
In Montana, MHA...An Association of Montana Health Care Providers, employs a Hospital Preparedness Coordinator who works specifically with Montana hospitals and facilities to help them create and maintain disaster preparedness plans. For more information on this process, feel free to contact Tina Frisch-Eblen at tina@mtha.org
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| AHEC - The Basics |
This E-News is being sent to you by the Montana Area Health Education Centers (AHECs) in order to open a dialogue among educators about Health Science Education for K-12 students of Montana. Through this newsletter we intend to:
1) build a shared resource of activities, materials, and lesson plans to draw on in teaching the health sciences
2) highlight the cross-curriculum nature of the health sciences
3) build an interest in and awareness of health career paths for students in the state of Montana
Please contact us with your comments, ideas, questions or projects you'd like to see highlighted in future issues of this e-newsletter. And thank you for the work you do every day to inspire and support Montana kids! | |
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Sincerely,
Montana AHECs (Area Health Education Centers)
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