Discovery Healthcare Camp
Our team has been working on a few projects to engage youth in the wider community by providing experiences to foster interest in healthcare careers. Please find below and enclosed promotional material for upcoming programs geared toward students in grades 9-12. These are wonderful opportunities for youth to have some fun online through our first-ever Saturday Scrubs Workshop coming up on March 26th and through our in-person Discovery Healthcare summer camps scheduled for July 2022! These initiatives are facilitated by 1st and 2nd-year medical students from Western University, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry with support from the Office of Distributed Education.
Saturday Scrubs
Saturday Scrubs is an immersive hour-long online experience that will take students through an interactive clinical scenario, demonstrating the role of various healthcare providers working as a team to restore health to their patient. Prizes will be available for participating students!
Date of First Session (“Emergency Medicine”) 11:00AM - March 26th, 2022
Registration Link: https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/distributededucation/about_us/student_groups.html
Target Age: Grades 9-12
Cost: Free
Discovery Healthcare
Discovery Healthcare is a week-long immersive summer camp experience designed to engage and mentor high school students to consider healthcare career opportunities available to them, learn basic clinical skills and have fun!
Camp Dates and Locations: July 11th-15th, 2022 (Goderich and Sarnia) & July 18th-22nd, 2022 (Stratford and Chatham)
Registration Link: https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/distributededucation/discovery_healthcare_program/campers.html
Target Age: Grades 9-12
Cost: $299 + tax
