Health Science Education E-News
Growing Montana's Healthcare Workforce
In This Issue
Health Science Training Opportunity
Med Start Summer Camp
Prom, Tanning, the Risk?
Medical Mysteries
Service Learning Webinar
Rehabilitation Counselor
AHEC Basics
Quick Links
 
 
Super Teacher
Super Summer Training Opportunity for Science and Health Enhancement Teachers!
The UM-Missoula College of technology will offer a Health Science workshop June 7 - 11. Scholarship funds will pay for travel, lodging and meals.
 This workshop, along with job shadowing,  will provide teachers who have prior coursework in anatomy and physiology with the foundations to teach a Health Careers class at your school. Talk to your administrators, and contact Renee Harris for more information or to sign up! 406.994.6986
 
Tell your students about this opportunity: 
Pharmacy Technician
The University of Montana-Missoula's Pharmacy Tech 1-year Associate Degree program is available
  ONLINE!  
 
 For more information, visit
 
or
to view the application.
 
Applications for Fall 2010  
 are due April 1!
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Issue: # 12 March/2010
 
 Connecting Students to Health Careers
 
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Greetings!

Ahh, spring... the home stretch is coming in sight. For students and teachers, that means the countdown to summer has begun! 

Look in this issue of the Health Science Education E-News for summer (and sooner) opportunities for you and for your students...
     * MedStart, a FREE week-long health science camp held at MSU
     * Health Science Workshop at UM-Missoula College of Technology
     * Pharmacy Tech program
     * Grant Opportunities
     * and lesson plan ideas.
 
This issue marks the first anniversary of this e-newsletter from Montana's AHECs. As always, we encourage and welcome your feedback, comments and questions.
Med Start Summer Camp

Applications are now Available!

 
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. 

Applications are available by clicking HERE
MedStart Summer Camp Thirty students will be accepted state-wide.
 
For more information, please contact Bergen Morehouse, South Central Montana AHEC, Program Coordinator 406.683.2790 or [email protected]
Resources about Tanning
Sun Just in time for Prom season
 
Thanks to the prompting and feedback from Lauri Tokerud, Science Teacher at Shelby High School, we have decided to include some resources on tanning...just as Prom season hits!

Click HERE for a link to a powerful video about tanning, UV rays and Melanoma.
 
Melanoma Facts
    - Melanoma kills one person every hour.
   
- Melanoma is the most common cancer among women aged 25 -32- 
    - As many as 10,000 people a year die from melanoma. 
   
- Melanoma rates are increasing faster than nearly all other cancers.
 
Tanning Facts
 
    - People who use tanning beds once a month before the age of 35 increase their melanoma risk by 75%.
    - The more you tan and the younger you start tanning, the more likely it is that you will get melanoma. 
 
 - Using a tanning bed for 20 minutes is equivalent to spending 1-3 hours a day at the beach with no sun protection at all. 
 
- Tanning beds put out 3-6 times the amount of radiation given off by the sun.
 
Across the country, high school students are signing a No-Tanning Pledge and making a commitment to preventing melanoma.
 
See the American Melanoma Foundation for more information.
Website of the Month
MedMyst
 
Medical Mysteries on the Web

Looking for a web site that's packed full of information, fun and easy to use, and will keep your students buzzing? Look no further. This is one of the most exciting web sites for health science we've come across:
 
Developed by Rice University, Medical Mysteries on the Web, or MedMyst, is a series of interactive role-playing detective games. Students take on the roles of the Reconstructors, public health detectives in the city of Neuropolis, set in 2254. The Reconstructors use scientific clues to determine the causes of outbreaks of illness throughout the futuristic city.
 
The game uses Flash Media and is compatible with all typical operating systems and web browsers.
 
Highly Recommended! Click the image above to try it.
Free Webinar
Service Learning Grants

Learn and Serve America:
An Introduction to Youth-Led Service-Learning Projects & Opportunities for Sub-Grant Awards

 

Hopa Mountain, a Bozeman-based nonprofit which 

invests in rural and tribal citizen leaders who are working to improve education, ecological health, and economic development in their hometowns will be hosting several free webinars for those who are interested in learning more about the goals of Learn and Serve's Youth Leaders in Service projects and Service-Learning.  In addition, participants will learn about the availability and requirements of Learn and Serve sub-grant awards for funding youth-led service-learning projects in communities across Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation for 2010-2011.  Learn about service-learning and the essential steps to start a service-learning program in a community center or school on the following dates:

 

Wednesday, March 24   3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Tuesday, March 30   6 p.m.  - 7:30 p.m.

Monday, April 12    3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.

 

OPI credit may be available. Please reserve a place to participate by contacting Marissa Spang at [email protected]

Career Spotlight
Rehabilitation CounselorRehabilitation Counselor
 

Rehabilitation counselors help people deal with the personal, social, and vocational effects of disabilities. They counsel people with disabilities resulting from birth defects, illness or disease, accidents, or the stress of daily life. They evaluate the strengths and limitations of individuals, provide personal and vocational counseling, and arrange for medical care, vocational training, and job placement.

Rehabilitation counselors interview individuals with disabilities and their families, evaluate school and medical reports, and confer and plan with physicians, psychologists, occupational therapists, and employers to determine the capabilities and skills of the individual. Conferring with the client, they develop a rehabilitation program, which often includes training to help the person develop job skills. They also work toward increasing the client's capacity to live independently.

The job outlook for rehabilitation counselors is expected to be excellent, with 60,000 new employees projected by 2016 and average national salaries at about $45,000.00 a year.

 

MSU-Billings offers both Associate and Bachelors' level programs in Rehabilitation.

 

To learn more about this career, watch the video profile of "Rehabilitation Counselors"

text courtesy of www.explorehealthcareers.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!
Montana AHEC
Sincerely,
 

Montana AHECs (Area Health Education Centers)