(From KGCS)Health care professionals are in high demand and The Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) in Missouri make it their mission to grow and support the state healthcare workforce.
That’s why AHEC started the MASH Camp (MO AHEC Science and Health Camp) program in 1994 which offers high school and undergraduate students a chance go inside medical facilities and experience hands-on activities. The upcoming series of MASH Camps is the focus of Newsmakers this week.
Dr. Trisha Riggs, Executive Director for the Southwest Missouri Area Health Education Center explains how Mercy Hospital and KCU Medical Center will offer tours, shadowing health care workers, Q and A sessions with doctors, dentists and medical students as well as labs for immersive learning opportunities. Those include ambulance tours, a mock operating room experience, ultrasound pulse checks, suture labs and more.
Dr. Andrea Cullers, MSSU Department of Kinesiology discusses the impact on students of last year’s MASH Camp held at the university. MASH Camps make students aware of the varied careers in healthcare beyond just being doctors and nurses and help them better determine a path of study.
Newsmakers is airing nightly at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. the week of June 9 on KGCS-TV and will air at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, June 15 on KOAM-TV. It is also posted on the station’s YouTube channel: KGCS - Missouri Southern State University.
KGCS programming can be seen on channel 21 and is also available on regional cable television systems such as Sparklight, Mediacom and Optimum Internet in Carthage. The station operates as a service of the Department of Communications at Missouri Southern State University.
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