At the end of April this year, UAMS Health Careers Recruiters Yalanda Young (AHEC-NE) and Janet Ligon (Delta AHEC), joined forces to bring a “Day in the Life” program to Forrest City. East Arkansas Community College (EACC) generously hosted the event for 20+ students from surrounding rural areas. They learned about a number of different career opportunities in the healthcare industry and learned their way around the EACC campus.

Check out the short video below for more info. If you’re interested in learning more about your dream career in healthcare, contact your area…

This week’s ArkansasHealthCareers.com video focuses on Delta AHEC in Helena, AR, where Janet Ligon organized A Day in the Life of a Nurse. These Day in the Life programs are a staple at our AHECs all across the state. With the help of her sponsor, the Arkansas Minority Health Commission, Janet brought in 45 students from 10 different high schools in the Delta area. They participated in hands-on activities like needle injections, they learned how to take blood pressures, and they listened to a variety of nurses talk about their day-to-day experiences. These programs are a fantastic way…

This week’s ArkansasHealthCareers.com video webisode takes aim at the stigma surrounding primary care in general, and rural practice primary care specifically. The argument in many of today’s medical schools is, “As a rural primary care doc, you’ll have limited resources, you’ll work yourself to death, and you won’t get as much respect or make as much money doing it as your rural counterparts.” This argument is hollow at best and purposefully specious at worst.

We hear in this week’s video from Darren Caldwell, the CEO of DeWitt Hospital, who tells us how emerging technologies connect rur…