{"id":53429,"date":"2016-11-28T11:45:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T21:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=53429"},"modified":"2020-03-13T15:37:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T01:37:05","slug":"teen-health-camp-draws-record-attendance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/28\/teen-health-camp-draws-record-attendance\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Health Camp draws record attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/192869925\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" title=\"Vimeo video player\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\">The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> M&#257;noa&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/\">John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> hosted students from as far away as L&#257;nai for the 2016 Fall Teen Health Camp on November 19. The free, one-day event introduced students in grades 6 to 12 to workshops and interactive skill demonstrations presented by medical students and partners with the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/diversity\/HCOP\/\">Health Careers Partnership Program<\/a> to inspire them into a variety of career options in the health professions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53433\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53433\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/manoa-jabsom-teen-health-camp-260x149.jpg\" alt=\"students listening to speaker\" width=\"260\" height=\"149\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/manoa-jabsom-teen-health-camp-260x149.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/manoa-jabsom-teen-health-camp.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teen Health Camp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Teen Health Camp encourages students from economically and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue careers in healthcare. The rapidly aging population in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> makes it critically important to build the state&#8217;s future healthcare workforce.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Any student who participates in Teen Health Camp will meet professional role models from their communities and will come away with the understanding that there are a wealth of challenges, personal qualities and technical skills which can make a career in the health are industry exciting,&rdquo; said <strong>Agnes Malate<\/strong>, current director of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Health Careers Partnership Program.<\/p>\n<p>Teen Health Camp is a collaboration of the John A. Burns School of Medicine, Na Pua <span aria-label=\"Noeau\">No&#699;eau<\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahec.hawaii.edu\/all-programs\/\">Area Health Education Center<\/a> and Health Careers Partnership Program. <\/p>\n<p>Read more about the event at the <a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/new-video-teen-health-camp-to-interest-youth-in-health-careers-draws-record-attendance\/\">John A. Burns School of Medicine website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Tina Shelton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John A. Burns School of Medicine&#8217;s camp encourages students from economically and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue careers in healthcare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[165,31,371,9,56],"class_list":["post-53429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-health","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-na-pua-noeau","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53429"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113748,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53429\/revisions\/113748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}