Over Spring Break this year, Pre-Health Recruiter LaSonya Shelby and her team brought 22 junior high school kids from Jefferson County to Little Rock to tour the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences campus. CHAMPS stands for Community Health Applied in Medical Public Service. It is a program that teaches junior high schools students about jobs in health care. Check out the video below to see the Pine Bluff CHAMPS Program in action.

This was an abbreviated three-day program that took place March 21- 23, 2011, and “it worked out very well,” according to Cindy Adams, co- director of CHAMP…

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…

The first webisode in our series The Training Grounds has been released! The Training Grounds is all about profiling professional training programs for health-related careers in Arkansas.

This webisode takes a look at the Family Practice Residency Program at AHEC Pine Bluff through the eyes of two residents there. AHEC Pine Bluff is located at 4010 South Mulberry in Pine Bluff, AR, adjacent to Jefferson Regional Medical Center. If you are interested in more info about the residency program, you can contact Susan Over. She is the residency coordinator there. You can call her at 1-800-395-6…