Follow us as we visit rural communities with the Healthcare Travelling Roadshow (#BCHCRS13)

Next week, a group of UBC and UNBC medical and health professional students will be travelling through communities in northern B.C. to educate elementary and secondary children about opportunities for careers in healthcare.

The Healthcare Travelling Roadshow was conceived by the Rural Coordination Centre of B.C. as a grass roots initiative to address rural healthcare workforce shortages. It involves a multidisciplinary group of healthcare students travelling to a rural community to showcase career opportunities from the perspectives of the students training in those programs. 

Goals of the Health Care Travelling Roadshow: 

1. Showcase healthcare careers as options for rural students.
Formal and informal presentations are done by current healthcare students in rural focused training programs. Since these healthcare students are generally younger than the local parents and healthcare professionals, they are able to speak to the local youth in a language that is more accessible.  Informal presentations provide opportunities for local students to examine numerous examples of healthcare equipment and allow for more personal conversations with healthcare students.
 
2. Showcase the rural community as a career option for healthcare students.
The rural community has an opportunity to introduce the visiting students to the medical community, the hospital or healthcare facility, the broader community and the recreational opportunities that exist.
 
3. Provide an interdisciplinary experience for the healthcare students.
Healthcare training programs tend to be taught in isolation from the other healthcare professions, though the careers themselves all rely heavily on interdisciplinary interactions. Thus, there is a need to improve interdisciplinary opportunities for students during their training.

Follow along with #BCHCRS13

We will be live tweeting as we travel through the communities of Fraser Lake, Vanderhoof, Fort St. James, Prince George and Burns Lake with the students.  You can follow along by searching the hashtag #BCHCRS13 on Twitter and Instagram.  For more information, please contact Daniel Presnell (daniel.presnell@ubc.ca) or Melissa Carr (melissa.carr@ubc.ca).  You can also follow the UBC Undergraduate Medical Program on Twitter (@UBCMDUP).

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