SKYCTC hosts 3rd Future Healthcare Heroes Camp
By Tommy Modeszto WNKY TV
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The health care industry is in need of workers, and one local school is leading the way to expose the next generations to the different fields of the healthcare industry.
Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College hosted their third Future Healthcare Heroes Camp on campus. SKYCTC invited freshman and sophomores from local schools in south -central Kentucky and showcase the different fields that represent the healthcare field as a whole. Kids got to learn about pulmonology, radiology, surgery and many other important jobs within the medical field.
And while many kids might know the common medical practices, such as nurses or dentists, the camp exposed the students to some unfamiliar but much needed practices within the medical field.
“Like a lot of people know what nurses does, a lot of people maybe even know what radiography does. But we have some other programs like medical laboratory technology, surgical technology, respiratory therapy, that sometimes students really don’t know what a career in that is lot. So this gives them an opportunity to come in and experience a variety of things and at an early age, go ahead and start thinking about, you know, ‘I’m not, I might enjoy that kind of career,'” said dean of allied health and nursing at SKYCTC Angie Harlan.
Harlan says that these camps not only give the students an idea for a career but also help get them comfortable with what the college courses could look like and who their instructors could be.