{"id":7703,"date":"2016-07-27T15:22:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T19:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=7703"},"modified":"2022-03-23T10:14:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T14:14:50","slug":"health-career-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/health-career-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"K Joins WMed to help local students dream big and enter pipeline to health science careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07417.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7706\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7706\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07417-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"SC07417\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07417-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07417-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07417-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07417-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07417.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Kalamazoo College welcomes 24 local high school students to campus this week for Early Introductions to Health Careers Level II (EIH-II), a cooperative program between K and Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMed).<\/p>\n<p>The program intends to foster biomedical science and health career aspirations for underrepresented minorities and disadvantaged high school students, grades 10-12, in Kalamazoo County. Students will participate in interactive-presentations, hands-on lab experiments, note-booking, and be exposed to physicians, health professionals in allied health, and basic scientists.<\/p>\n<p>The program is designed to improve students problem solving and critical thinking skills and \u201chelp them dream a little bigger and have fun,\u201d said Dawn DeLuca, Healthcare Career Pathways Coordinator, Office of Health Equity and Community Affairs. According to DeLuca, EIH-II is part of Kalamazoo County\u2019s first pipeline educational initiative for health professions. It also includes EHI Level I, a program for elementary school students, and Kalamazoo Education Enrichment Pre-Med Summer Program (KEEPS), a program for students in their first two years of college.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07430.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7707\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7707\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07430-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"SC07430\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07430-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07430-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07430-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07430-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07430.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Two Kalamazoo College students are involved in KEEPS, which aims to add to the development of current undergraduate students who are science majors and interested in pursuing health professional careers through their participation as mentors and teaching assistants. The K students and high school students will also spend time with current WMed students, which include eight K alumni.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura Furge<\/strong>, Ph.D., associate provost and Roger F. and Harriet G. Varney Professor of Chemistry at K is leading EIH-II students through numerous presentations and experiments in K\u2019s Dow Science Center this week. Among students\u2019 activities will be learning basic lab safety and practices, talking about sodas and calculating how much soda they drink, conducting extraction and HPLC experiments, learning about enzymes via \u201ctoothpickase\u201d activity, looking at the structure of proteins through 3D printing, and hosting a notebook competition and poster tour in Dow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07426.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7711\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7711\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07426-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"SC07426\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07426-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07426-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07426-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07426-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07426.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cPipeline, pre-professional and enrichment programs are an important strategy for addressing the educational achievement gaps and diversifying the health professions and shortage of underrepresented minorities in the health professions,\u201d said DeLuca.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe it may also contribute to reducing health disparities in students\u2019 communities through their improved knowledge about health, social determinants of health, and active citizenship through service learning with community organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamazoo College welcomes 24 local high school students to campus this week for Early Introductions to Health Careers Level II (EIH-II), a cooperative program between K and Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMed). 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Students will participate in interactive-presentations, hands-on lab experiments, note-booking, and be exposed to physicians, health professionals in allied health, and basic scientists.<\/p>\n<p>The program is designed to improve students problem solving and critical thinking skills and \u201chelp them dream a little bigger and have fun,\u201d said Dawn DeLuca, Healthcare Career Pathways Coordinator, Office of Health Equity and Community Affairs. According to DeLuca, EIH-II is part of Kalamazoo County\u2019s first pipeline educational initiative for health professions. It also includes EHI Level I, a program for elementary school students, and Kalamazoo Education Enrichment Pre-Med Summer Program (KEEPS), a program for students in their first two years of college.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07430.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7707\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7707\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07430-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"SC07430\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Two Kalamazoo College students are involved in KEEPS, which aims to add to the development of current undergraduate students who are science majors and interested in pursuing health professional careers through their participation as mentors and teaching assistants. The K students and high school students will also spend time with current WMed students, which include eight K alumni.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura Furge<\/strong>, Ph.D., associate provost and Roger F. and Harriet G. Varney Professor of Chemistry at K is leading EIH-II students through numerous presentations and experiments in K\u2019s Dow Science Center this week. Among students\u2019 activities will be learning basic lab safety and practices, talking about sodas and calculating how much soda they drink, conducting extraction and HPLC experiments, learning about enzymes via \u201ctoothpickase\u201d activity, looking at the structure of proteins through 3D printing, and hosting a notebook competition and poster tour in Dow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07426.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7711\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7711\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/07\/SC07426-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"SC07426\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>\u201cPipeline, pre-professional and enrichment programs are an important strategy for addressing the educational achievement gaps and diversifying the health professions and shortage of underrepresented minorities in the health professions,\u201d said DeLuca.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe it may also contribute to reducing health disparities in students\u2019 communities through their improved knowledge about health, social determinants of health, and active citizenship through service learning with community organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7703"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7714,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions\/7714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7703"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=7703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}