Keeping health care close to home in Lac La Biche

Local high school students to learn what it’s like to be a health professional in their own community

Health professionals from the Lac La Biche area will teach high school students from Northern Lights Public School Division basic medical skills at an upcoming skills day to be held at the Portage College – Lac La Biche Campus on May 28, 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.

Lac La Biche High School Skills Day

Sponsors:    Rural Health Professions Action Plan (RhPAP), the Lac La Biche Physician Attraction and Retention Committee, and Alberta Health Services. Food prepared by College and sponsored by Alberta Central Airways and Alberta Central Ambulance Services

Location:     Portage College – Lac La Biche Campus, 9531-94 Avenue, Lac La Biche

Day:             May 28, 2019

Time:            8:45 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Skills:           IV starts / Interosseous Injections, Paramedic Lab, “Be Fit for Life” Interactive Fitness Session, EMS/AHS Simulator, Suturing, Catheterization

Speakers:    Chantel Gauthier-Vaillancourt and Marianne King (Midwifery), Robin Tizzard (Dean, Portage College), Ramona Slade Dube (Physiotherapy Assistant)

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

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