Healthcare Careers Program
The Southwest Area Health Education Center's Careers Program is committed to expanding the development of activities, which serves to increase the representation of minority populations in all health careers. Our goal is to introduce under-represented young people from urban and rural medically-underserved communities to health care, ensure that they receive quality training, and keep them in the underserved community that they came from in order to become health care providers.
We currently have Exploration and Awareness programs for middle school, high school and college students in Arapaho, Burns Flat-Dill City, Clinton, Comanche, Cordell, Duncan, Elk City, Hammon, Lawton, Marlow, Randlett, Sterling and Weatherford. Below is a map of all the communities, over the past 3 years, that have participated in Exploration and/or Awareness programs:
In the Exploration or Job Shadowing program,
students choose what health care discipline they are interested in and
SWAHEC finds a local professional in that particular discipline who serves as a
preceptor for the students. While working with the preceptor, the
students experience first-hand what it is like to work in a particular health
field.
A Job Shadow is defined as less
than 20 hours of activity with a preceptor. The exploration
program is defined as a minimum of 20 hours with
a preceptor. The most popular form of job shadowing is the all-day
shadowing.
When you participate in a job shadow or the exploration program, you gain
first-hand knowledge of what it is like to work in a particular health
field. If you are thinking about pursuing a career in a health
field, an opportunity like this allows you to determine whether or not you
think you are well suited to that career before you enter training on an
academic level. You may just as likely decide that you are not suited for
a particular health field as decide that you are. Both are equally
important. Also, upon completion, you are given a certificate from
SWAHEC/Cameron University, which has proven to be invaluable for resumes and
scholarship applications.
If you are interested in participating, please review the Requirements, as
well as the Interest form and/or Application available below to
download. Please return to Beth Young.
Get 'em. Train 'em. Keep 'em.
Links of Interest:
For more information, please contact:
Healthcare Careers Coordinator
2800 W Gore Blvd, Lawton, OK 73505
South Shepler, Room #410
Phone: 580-581-2284, Fax: 580-581-2543
Email: ahec@cameron.edu
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