Brooks and area high school students learn what it’s like to be a health professional in their own community
Health professionals from the Brooks region will teach high school students from Brooks, Bassano, Duchess, and Rosemary basic medical skills at an upcoming skills day to be held at the Medicine Hat College – Brooks Campus on May 23, 2019. The interactive day offers students a hands-on opportunity to engage in common health-care activities. Students can also speak with the instructors about health-related careers in the community, health-care provider job experiences, and the educational requirements for specific health-care careers. The intent of the high school skills day event is to encourage local students to consider a career in rural health care and learn about the local opportunities available.
Brooks High School Skills Day
Sponsors: Rural Health Professions Action Plan (RhPAP), the Brooks Region Physician Attraction and Retention Committee, and Alberta Health Services
Location: Medicine Hat College – Brooks Campus, 200 Horticultural Station Rd E, Brooks
Day: May 23, 2019
Time: 8:45 am – 2:30 pm
Skills: IV starts, Injections, Airway Management, EMS, Suturing, Hygiene, Psychology
Speakers: Dan Klein, Councillor, City of Brooks; Molly Douglass, Reeve of County of Newell; Suzanne Nielsen, Unit Clerk; Cindy Marie Payne Slenders, Director, Brooks Campus and Regional Stewardship; Melanie Reed-Zukowski, Registered Psychologist
RhPAP Skills Events
RhPAP Skills events, including Skills Days and Skills Weekends for high school and post-secondary students, are sponsored by the Rural Health Professions Action Plan (RhPAP), and are scheduled in rural Alberta communities throughout the year by the RhPAP Rural Community Consultant team
Multimedia
- Photo Gallery, RhPAP High School Skills Days
- Video, Pincher Creek area students explore health-care careers by learning hands-on skills