On Monday, November 28th, a Day in the Life of Obstetrics Staff was held at Van Buren High School in Van Buren, AR. Speakers included Licensed Practical Nurse, Cyndy Gregory; Licensed Social Worker Faculty, Elizabeth Petray; Post Graduate Resident, Dr. Sarah Holcomb. The speakers were terrific and gave very good information to the students. Being the first day back after the Thanksgiving Day holidays, it was a somewhat subdued group of students, but we still managed to get some good questions out of them. Overall the program was a great success.

Dr. Sarah Holcomb addresses students at Day in…

UAMS AHEC-SW (Texarkana) offered another HOHC program to local high school students in and around the Texarkana area.  Due to the overwhelming response we were able to turn that one program into three and completely fill each program with 20 plus students grades 9-12.  We just completed our third program and found all three to be a great success!  Students were taught about many different health professions and participated in hands on activities throughout the day.  We are scheduled to host our next program in February 2012.

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On Wednesday October 19, 2011 twelve students from 6 school districts attended the fall Hands on Health Care day in El Dorado. The students were exposed to numerous careers in health care by playing with “pee” and “poop”, typing blood, experimenting with drawing blood, giving injections into oranges and practicing finger sticks by testing their own glucose levels. The students experienced life as a pharmacist by filling capsule meds with powdered sugar, drawing medicine into syringes and filling IV bags. The day ended with a trip to South Arkansas Community Co…