Mini Med School

Tools

By Katie Ussin

Story Published: Jul 13, 2009 at 5:45 PM MST

Story Updated: Jul 22, 2009 at 8:22 AM MST

BILLINGS - They are your potential future anesthesiologists, surgeons, pediatricians and nurses learning from some of the best before they are even old enough to drive.
A dozen sixth through eighth graders are attending mini med school all this week. It is a health career camp for kids put on by the MSU-Billings College of Professional Studies and Lifelong Learning.
"They're just learning what they want to be when they grow up and a lot of them want to be a doctor but they don't know of all the different fields in medicine," said Patrick Hughes, head athletic trainer at MSU-B and leader of the camp. "So, this just gives them an eye-opening experience to many of the different health care careers that they might not have known about."
They explore with the tools of the trade to give them a hands-on experience of what the medical environment is like.
Monday they worked with a computer program used by nursing students at the College of Technology on the Billings west end. They also learned about radiology and how X-rays are created.
"As soon as they get to that freshman level they need to focus on sciences and math and be prepared at an early level to take some math, biology, and chemistry and if they start young they have a better foundation and then it makes college a success," said Cindy Rossmith, RN and nursing director at the COT.
they may be in mini med school, but these students have big career aspirations, "My dream job is to be a surgical doctor of the heart or maybe an EMT," said Chyanne Obie, an eighth grader at Castle Rock Middle School.
Students will also learn about search and rescue techniques and help flight pilots and nurses.
The week-long camp culminates with a disaster preparedness drill where the students will have to set up triage areas.
The cost of the camp is $195.

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