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community Photo: tom Fuldner Helping Students Explore Health Care Careers s the state’s teaching hospital, UNC Health Care helps develop future generations of health care providers. While new medical students arrive at the UNC School of Medicine’s Chapel Hill campus each year, younger students in middle school and high school are still trying to figure out what their career options are and what they might like to do in the future. The largest gathering in the state of students who are interested in health care is the North Carolina Health Occupations Student Association’s (HOSA) annual state conference. In March, more than 2,000 high school and college students visited Greensboro See Education to participate in interacin Action tive activities and skills competitions and to meet Watch videos about unc with health professionals Health care’s involvement with these student events. like those from UNC. Visit www.youtube.com/ “While some students uncmedicine. know exactly what they want to do, others need a UNC School of Medicine student Sarah Paraghamian (center) leads students in the Health Professions Recruitment and Exposure Program through a station in the gross anatomy lab. unC health Care takes part in positively influencing thousands of north Carolina’s youths. A bit more information,” says Tom Hartley, RN, MSN, with UNC’s Ambulatory Care Department. Hartley was one of seven UNC Health Care employees from a variety of disciplines who attended the conference. “Events like this provide students the chance to pick our brains about what’s available beyond being a physician or nurse.” A smaller but similar program designed to help students is the Health Professions Recruitment and Exposure Program (HPREP). HPREP is designed to provide opportunities for high school students to interact with medical students, faculty and health professionals and is coordinated by the Student National Medical Association chapter at the UNC School of Medicine. “There are so many directions teenagers can go,” says Angie Johnson, HPREP co-coordinator and UNC School of Medicine student. “They just need someone who can help them grab on to their dreams.” UNC Health Care works throughout the year to connect with students who are interested in health care. In June, UNC hosts the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine, and the Volunteer Association holds an annual Health Careers Symposium each fall. 4 Summer 2011 Well http://www.youtube.com/uncmedicine http://www.youtube.com/uncmedicine

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Well - Summer 2011

Well - Summer 2011
Contents
UNC Health Care News
Community
Radio City Rockettes Visit Children’s Hospital
Prostate Protection
Surgery Through Oxlee’s Eyes
Nutrition
Calendar

Well - Summer 2011