Two Pea Ridge High School students -- Christina Cotton and Jared Woolard -- are among five junior and senior high school students from Benton County attending a Medical Applications of Science for Health (MAS*H) camp July 28-Aug. 8 at Mercy Hospital in Rogers. Others are Jourdan Fox, Rogers, and Mishann Leudders and Rachna Talluri, both of Bentonville.
The two-week summer medical enrichment experience is designed to give interested students a glimpse of what a health profession is really like. Students participated in a variety of medical-related activities including observing surgery; learning more about anatomy through dissection of animal organs; learning about reading x-rays; shadowing a doctor making rounds; an automobile crash simulation and many others. The program hopes to encourage rural youth interested in medical fields to continue their education and then return to rural areas to work.
Students were sponsored by the Arkansas MENTOR Medical Partnership and Benton County Farm Bureau. The Partnership includes the University of Arkansas for Medical Science's Area Health Education Centers and Rural Hospital Program, Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Arkansas Farm Bureau, Baptist Health and the Arkansas Health Department's Office of Oral Health. Arkansas Farm Bureau is a nonprofit, private farm and rural advocacy organization of more than 190,000 families throughout the state working to improve farm and rural life.
General News on 08/06/2014