Youth for Health

Youth

2008 Summer Institute for Health Careers

THE PURPOSE

See the flier

During the five day program students will explore various medical health professions as well as have the opportunity to tour health care facilities; discuss career options with professors and health practitioners; and shadow a health professional during the trip to the University of Colorado Health Science Center "Shadowing days" in Denver.

WHEN

June 22 - 27, 2008

PROGRAM - New Information!

Please download the information sheet.

There will be daily trips throughout the Institute. The Central AHEC provides rooms, meals and tuition for the students at no expense to the students.

HOW TO APPLY

Applications must be submitted to the office by April 15, 2008

Colorado AHEC System
University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center
Mail Stop F433 PO Box 6508
Aurora, Colorado 80045

Attention: Dan Navarro

303-724-0891 Fax

Applications may be downloaded here.

Please type or print legibly.

Call 303-724-0335 to get details.

Images from Summer Health Intitute 2006

  • Summer Health Institute 2006: (l to r) front row: Sarah, Ron Franklin (c), Jenna, Lacey, Jen 2nd row: Lauren, Chelsea, Atheena, Samantha, Mary Jean, Jordan Ingram (c) 3rd row: Christine, Courtnee, An, Amber, Allison, Courtney, Rayna, Amber last row: Carol, Bruce, Matt, Craig, Karen Franklin (c), Ashley, Lovvet, Leah, Johana, Emily
  • SHI 06: Friday Mornign Med Lab Tech Experiment
  • SHI 06: Bruce hugging Debra Schluter after receiving his award Friday
  • SHI 06: Counselors: front row: Ron Franklin, Debra Schluter, Katie Schluter back row: Karen Franklin, Meaghan Sweeney, Peggy Wait, Jordan Ingram
  • SHI 06: Disecting Cow eyes at Fitzsimons on Tuesday
  • SHI 06: West Pines Monday
  • SHI 06: Closing Friday Peggy giving Courtney her certificate of completion
  • SHI 06: Team building at West Pines Monday Chelsea, Rayna, Ashley and Johana
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HIPAA Training in Preparation for Summer Health Institute

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) protects patient health information. It is necessary that each participant in the Summer Health Institute view this program. Part of the Summer Health Institute program is a job shadowing that may expose participants to patient information. This training helps prepare participants how to protect this information.

To take the HIPAA traing please follow these steps:

  1. Create a folder in your My Documents called HIPPA.
  2. Download the on-line presentationand save it to the HIPAA folder you just created.
  3. Open the Zip file (hippa.zip) and save the files into the HIPAA folder. To open the zip file you can right click on it and select Open With...Compressed Folders (or Win Zip)
  4. Double click on the file called hipaa.exe.
  5. Go through the tutorial entering your name and giving yourself a password.
  6. Take the HIPAA quiz. Download the HIPAA quiz or find it in the HIPAA folder you created above.