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Greetings!
Welcome to our bi-monthly newsletter where we highlight recent activities of the Utah Center for Rural Health. This has been an exciting summer and we want to share some of it with you!
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| Health Careers Exploration Camp |
9th Annual Health Careers Exploration Camp Eighty-five high school students from rural Utah attended the annual Health Careers Exploration Camp at Southern Utah University. San Juan County had the largest representation with 26 students attending the camp. JoJo Gale, Counselor at Uintah Basin High School traveled the furthest, bringing eight students from schools in the Uintah Basin.
Workshops at camp featured health career skills where participants learned to cast arms, check blood sugar levels, take blood pressures, intubate and maintain an airway, give injections, provide first-aid, use and read an EKG machine, take an x-ray and more. In science labs students looked at blood smears through microscopes, learned how diseases are spread, extracted their own DNA, made their own teeth impressions, dissected sheep eyes and cow hearts, learned how to investigate a crime scene and learned about pharmacy by making their own chapstick. Careers that were featured included, Respiratory Therapy, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physician Assistant, Medical Technologist, Physician, Surgical Technician, Veterinarian, Forensic Science, EMT, Radiologist, Pharmacist, Geneticist, and Dentist.
At the camp students also participated in the SUU Challenge Course where they learned team-work and leadership skills. A dance and catered dinner at a local park were highlights of the camp. Participants were housed at The Eccles Living Learning Center at SUU and were able to experience what college life would be like as they lived and learned together while at Southern Utah University.
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| Utah Rural Health Scholars Program |
 Record Number of SUU Grads Admitted to Medical & Dental Schools
2006/2007 brought yet another record breaking year for Southern Utah University students applying to healthcare graduate programs. Pre-dental students led the way with seventeen students gaining acceptance to schools including USC, NYU, Case Western, SUNY-Buffalo, Baylor, UNLV, Temple and others.
Ten students were successful in their application to medical schools. Students were accepted at the University of Utah, Midwestern, Touro University, A.T. Still University, Des Moines, Oklahoma State and several other medical schools.
Six SUU students were successful in their pursuit of becoming pharmacists with acceptances at the University of Utah, University of Southern Nevada, Loma Linda, Midwestern and Montana.
Physician Assistants also broke records with seven students pursuing this mid-level health care profession. Students were accepted at the University of Utah, University of Colorado, St. Francis, Quinnipac, Duke, Touro and St. Vincent.
The majority of these students participated in the SUU Rural Health Scholars program. This program has experienced significant growth during its first three years growing from 40 students in 2004 to over 100 students in May 2007. |
| 2007-2008 Directories Available |
 Directory of Utah Health Professions Training Programs 2007-2008
The 2007-2008 edition of the Directory of Utah Health Professions Training Programs is finished and ready for distribution. In the next month, this Directory will be sent to over 400 junior and senior high school counselors, teachers and administrators. It will also be sent to local workforce service centers and officials at higher education institutions.
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Utah Center for Rural Health
Southern Utah University
351 W. University Blvd, ELC 115
Cedar City, UT 84721
(435) 865-8453
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