On Tuesday February 7, 2012 sixty college students on the SAU campus in Magnolia experienced their own “traveling” Hands on Health Care Event.  Volunteers from the Magnolia Hospital and the SAU College of Nursing provided assistance to the recruiters from  AHEC in South Arkansas and Texarkana  making the experience a success.  The students were exposued to seven different stations allowing them “hands on” activites in the fields of laboratory science, nursing, phlembotomy, and pharmacy.  New contacts were made and more paths to UAMS were created.

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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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UAMS AHEC SW will be hosting our next Hands On Health Care program on October 11, 2011 at AHEC in Texarkana, Ar.  The event will be held from 9:00am-3:30pm for all high school students (grades 9-12).  For more information please contact Bradi Kelley at bckelley@uams.edu or (870) 779-6102.

UAMS AHEC Southwest hosted the first “Hands On Health Care” program series on September 29th, for area high school students. The purpose of the program was to provide a one-day “hands-on” learning experience for students related to various health and medical professions. Thirty-two students from Arkansas High School and Texas High School attended the program. The participants practiced casting and suturing with our resident physicians Jeb Frost, DO, and Cliff Ball, MD. The students learned about respiratory therapy from Karen Diles, AHEC-SW Respiratory Instructor, and practiced i…