Applicants sought for health-professions program

Staff report

rootstown

Area eighth-grade students will have the opportunity to experience life as health-professions students at MEDCAMP July 12-14 at Northeast Ohio Medical University.

Applicants are being sought for 50 open spots.

The program is a three-day intensive immersion experience in the summer for students who have demonstrated achievement in science and an interest in a health-professions career. Students selected to participate in MEDCAMP must live in Ashtabula, Carroll, Columbiana, Mahoning, Portage, Richland, Stark, Summit, Tuscarawas, Trumbull or Wayne counties.

MEDCAMP, in its 22nd year, is designed to provide hands-on experiences in bio-medical science workshops involving research, clinical problem-solving and an introduction to the fields of clinical medicine and pharmacy.

Students join physicians, pharmacists, NEOMED students, faculty and researchers in performing applied activities, including taking blood pressures, reading EKGs, working in the pharmacy lab and identifying bacteria under a microscope. Students also complete a case study on a fictitious patient.

The program is sponsored by Ohio’s Region III Area Health Education Center. Applicants must be current eighth-grade students (will have completed eighth grade at the time of MEDCAMP), who excel in science and math. Potential participants may be nominated for the program by a teacher or guidance counselor, or students may nominate themselves. First consideration is given to applicants from groups underrepresented in health-care professions.

Information about MEDCAMP and applications may be found online at www.neomed.edu/medcamp or by calling 330-325-6584. Applications are due to the NEOMED AHEC office by April 15.

Northeast Ohio Medical University, formerly known as the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy, is a community-based, public medical university with a mission to improve the quality of health care in Northeast Ohio working in collaboration with its educational and clinical partners.

With a focus on scientific and medical research, and the interprofessional training of health professionals that is unique to the state of Ohio, the University offers a doctor of medicine (M.D.) and a doctor of pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree, in addition to graduate-level coursework and research opportunities leading to master’s and doctoral degrees in other medical areas. Northeast Ohio Medical University is a founding member of the Austen Bio- Innovation Institute in Akron.