Health Careers Exploration for Students

Are you a student interested in exploring health care careers? Then check out these exciting opportunities. You’ll learn about health care career opportunities with a rural emphasis, and you’ll have fun!

A listing of upcoming events can be found here.

Questions? Contact us. We’re here to help.

• Health Career Puppets - This is the only one of its kind in Minnesota aimed at K-2nd grade students.  The Health Career Puppets go on a “Great Hospital Adventure” meeting different people in various health care careers.
• Health Career Enrichment Program (H.C.E.P.) - These distinctive educational kits are for 1st-6th grade classrooms.  Each kit contains different hands-on activities, worksheets, books and videos that focus on healthy habits and health careers.
• Health Occupations Today (H.O.T.) - This unique 3-day exciting, fast-paced program is designed for high-ability 8th-9th grade students who have an interest in a health care career.  Students engage in hands-on learning, presentations, tours, group activities, and academic planning.  Northeast Minnesota AHEC works in collaboration with health care facilities and academic institutions throughout the region.
  Applications for 2008 H.O.T. programs are due in mid-May.
• Health Occupation Students of America (H.O.S.A.) - H.O.S.A. is a national student organization whose mission is to promote career opportunities in health care and to enhance the delivery of quality health care to all people.  Northeast Minnesota AHEC provides technical assistance and education recommendations to H.O.S.A. chapters located in our region.  H.O.S.A. is for 9th-12th grade students. 
• Health Careers Investigators is a day-long program developed by the University of Minnesota's Health Careers Center, gives high school students the opportunity to tour the U’s laboratories and meet with students and faculty who specialize in rural medicine. Health Careers Investigators will take place in Spring 2009.

For more information

Contact Brittany Morgan for information about these opportunities. Or, visit News and Events to find out about upcoming events.

Information for NE MNAHEC:

Health Careers Exploration for Students

K-12 Teachers

Health Professions Students and Residents

Health Professionals

Community Members

Community Profiles

Staff

Board of Directors

Key Partners

Local Resources

Health Analysis

Contact

Brendan L. Ashby
Executive Director
218-362-6153

Brittany Morgan
Health Careers Specialist
218-362-6460

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Minnesota Area Health Education Center (AHEC) is a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Bureau of Health Professions cooperative agreement # 1U76-HP00599-01 funded through Title VII of the Public Health Service Act.