Greetings!
May is well underway! We hope you will find valuable information and resources in this month's newsletter!
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 MedStart Summer Camp 2013 Attendees!
The attendees for MedStart Summer Camp 2013 have been announced. Ninety students were selected from a group of 180 applicants to fill camps in Bozeman, Missoula, and Great Falls. The Billings camp was canceled due to lack of funding. Acceptance and denial letters have been mailed out to all applicants. The Bozeman camp takes place June 16-21. The Missoula and Great Falls camps take place June 23-28. If you have any questions about MedStart please contact Bergen Morehouse, South Central MT AHEC, 683-2790 or bergen@mtha.org.
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South Central AHEC Announces Scholarship Winners
Araceli Alarcon from Augusta High School and Brooklyn McLaughlin from Helena High School have both been awarded a $250 scholarship from the SC AHEC. Both of these students are graduating seniors, MedStart Summer Camp participants, and members of HOSA. Araceli plans to pursue a radiology degree at Great Falls College and hopes to help serve underprivileged people. Brooklyn plans to attend the University of Montana-Western for a microbiology degree and then go to PA school at Rocky. These young women are both very deserving of this scholarship and we wish them the best in their future healthcare careers!"
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The  North Central AHEC Office Extends Deadline for Public Health PSA Contest
The contest objective is to encourage students to look at public health as a career of interest.
As part of the application process, students explore career options in the public health industry and determine a pertinent health issue affecting their local community. Once a student decides on a topic, they develop a 30-to-60 second public service announcement. The judgment criteria include the following:
- demonstration of knowledge obtained from public health department
- creativity
- professionalism/quality of video in terms of public use
- pertinence of health issue
- promotion of public health careers
The winning team will receive a state-of-the-art Celestron LCD microscope with digital built-in camera and an accompanying set of 100 anatomy microscope slides for their school!
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REACH Camps a Success Across the State
REACH Camp ended in Plentywood on April 30th with Sheridan Memorial Hospital. Students from Scobey, Medicine Lake, Westby, and Plentywood High Schools attended. The Wolf Point/Poplar REACH Camp was held in Wolf Point on March 13th at North East Montana Health Services.
 REACH students in Wolf Point.
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Ignatius high school students watch as Providence St. Joseph Hospital Shelley Otoupalik, NP, performs an ultrasound on their classmate during a May 6th REACH program.
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Community Hospital of Anaconda hosted a REACH camp for 35 Anaconda High School students on May 1st. Students rotated through nine stations including Life Flight, Respiratory Therapy, Rehab, Pharmacy, Materials Management, Laboratory, Medical Imaging, Nutrition, and Sim Man.
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Eastern Montana students win PSA Contest Prizes
We have completed our first annual Public Service Announcement (PSA) contest. All 6th-8th grade students in eastern Montana were invited to participate in the contest. The prize offered was a Celestron Microscope with LCD display for group viewing, 72 blank microscope slides, 100 square cover glasses, and an Elenco slide-making kit. The four winning schools were Eileen Johnson Middle School in Lockwood, Roosevelt Middle School in Red Lodge, Pretty Eagle Catholic Academy in St. Xavier, and Fairview School in Fairview. All of the groups did an amazing job and addressed serious concerns in their community, including sleep deprivation, drug abuse, bullying, and safe driving. The videos have been posted on the RiverStone Health YouTube page and Facebook page: RiverStone YouTube
RiverStone Health facebook
Bilings Gazette article
Lockwood high school YouTube video (see link above).
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 Western AHEC PSA Contest Winners
Members of Caroline Ehman's Darby High School Medical Foundations Class accept a Celestron digital microscope, their prize for submitting the winning WMT-AHEC National Public Health public service announcement contest. Darby students prepared a 1-minute video that highlighted school safety. WMT-AHEC thanks our public health department contest judges from Missoula, Lake, Flathead, Ravalli, Sanders and Mineral counties. |
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Brain Beat: A Health Science-Cooking-Fitness Camp
WMT-AHEC is hosting Brain Beat: A Health Science-Cooking-Fitness Camp for Missoula middle school students, October 17-18. Joining the Brain Beat collaborative planning team this year will be the new Grow Montana director, Stephanie LaPorte-Potts and MSU EFNEP educator, Barb Ludeman.
For more information, contact martha.robertson@mso.umt.edu
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 Health Science Teacher Online Training
The OPI Health Science teacher training has been converted from a classroom-facilitated professional development course to an online learning platform. This change was made in the hopes of reaching more teachers who could not participate in summer training due to other jobs or family commitments. To be eligible for this program, the teacher must be a licensed secondary science, or PE/Health Enhancement teacher with a collegiate course in Anatomy & Physiology.
Through a grant from Missoula College, the first cohort of teachers to sign up for this online training, scheduled for June 17-June 28th, will be able to participate free of charge. The deadline for this training will be May 30th.
For further inquiries or to sign up for this training; please email Renee Harris, Health Science Education Specialist, at Rharris3@mt.gov or call 406.994.6986.
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 Funding Opportunities
In these days of budget slashing, it's a relief to see that funding is still out there. Visit the link here to see where science teachers can find money! |
May is Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month: Teach Students How Our Environment & Toxins Affect Our Health
Discovering the Connection: Your Environment, Your Health is an after-school science club curriculum for middle school students. It can also be used in a science classroom or in an interdisciplinary program that connects science and society.
Lessons and activities of the curriculum combine research on the Tox Town website with hands-on experiments. The objective is to introduce middle school students to environmental health issues in their everyday lives, emphasizing the relevance of science to informed citizenship. For curriculum, click here.
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 Minimally Invasive Brain Aneurysm Repair
OR Live is a website that allows access to live surgeries from across the United States. Numerous surgeries are broadcast every month ranging in topics. If you have students interested in the operating room, or just interested in healthcare in general, have them check out this site! Watch a surgery in class! See first-hand what the operating room is like!
To watch the video of a Brain Aneurysm Repair Surgery: Click here (Thursday, May 23 at 2 p.m. MST)
The site also contains video clips and highlights about various healthcare careers and medical issues. Definitely worth checking out! OR Live
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This E-News is being sent to you by the Montana Area Health Education Centers (AHEC's) in order to open a dialogue among educators about Health Science Education for K-12 students 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!
Sincerely,
Montana AHECs (Area Health Education Centers)
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DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY!
Online Health Science teacher training.
Deadline: May 30, 2013.
Look in body of newsletter for more information.
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