February 18, 2009

The Medical Service Academy (MSA) is a collaborative program between Saint Mary’s Hospital and Rhinelander High School.  Its mission is to provide a guided academic curriculum and, using the community and its resources as the classroom, a health career exploration experience for high school students.

Dr. Dorothy Skye will be presenting a skills lab to the Medical Service Academy students on Tuesday, February 24.  The educational, interactive session will take place in the Guidance Office conference room at Rhinelander High School from 9:00am – 10:30am.

You are invited to attend and to talk with the ten students who are current participants.  The students will be learning about auscultation (lung and heart sounds) and will draw the anatomy of the chest on t-shirts to use for listening reference points.  This will be a fun opportunity to talk to the students about their motivation for being in the program.

For more information please contact Sue Klemm, RN at 715.361.2066.

Northwoods Medical Services Academy

Mission Statement, Goals and Student Outcomes

Mission Statement:

To provide a guided academic curriculum and, using the community and its resources as the classroom, a health career exploration experience for high school students.
Goals:

1. Interest, motivate, and recruit students through hands-on career exploration and sound academic learning to pursue education in health care.
2. Through clinical observation experiences, provide opportunities for students to observe, interact, and learn from health care professionals.
3. Develop a collaborative partnership among Rhinelander High School, Nicolet College and Ministry Healthcare to share resources and enhance learning and work opportunities.

Student Outcomes:

• A better understanding of the vast array of career options and opportunities in the health care field.
• Opportunity to begin to understand the application of classroom knowledge to workplace situations.
• To be better prepared to make career decisions based on clinical observation and interaction with professionals in chosen areas of personal interest.
• Knowledge gained on the education and training requirements, job satisfaction, demands and responsibilities, and salary potential of numerous health careers.
• Awareness of the collegial relationship of healthcare professionals with the patient as the focus