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CampMed attendee Megan Recker practices intubation on a medical simulator. The free, two-day program introduces rising ninth-graders to careers in science and medicine.<\/p><\/div>\n
Now in its 28th year, the program was created in 1998 to cultivate interest in science and medicine among students who might not otherwise have exposure to those fields. Priority is given to prospective first-generation college students, those from underrepresented rural or urban communities, and students who are financially or educationally disadvantaged.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe bring together students who share a common interest,\u201d said Courtney Combs, director of the Ohio Area Health Education Centers program. \u201cThey may be the only students in their schools who are interested in this field. Here they\u2019re around like-minded kids.\u201d<\/p>\n
Students were assigned to teams guided by rising second-year medical students and attended sessions led by physicians, professors and staff, experiencing diagnostic, treatment and laboratory settings firsthand. Highlights included time in the Lloyd A. Jacobs Interprofessional Immersive Simulation Center, where students practiced clinical skills using state-of-the-art technology, including hands-on sessions on how to set casts, intubate patients and properly perform CPR.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really liked learning about the life-saving activities,\u201d said Lorelei Clapp, a student from Seneca East High School. \u201cIt\u2019s good to learn how I would react to some of these experiences. I think I\u2019ve gotten more interested in the medical field through this camp.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the conclusion of the program, parents and teachers were invited to campus to hear students present what they learned through critical thinking and laboratory experiences.<\/p>\n
CampMed is supported by UToledo’s College of Medicine and Life Sciences and the UToledo\/Ohio Area Health Education Centers program, with funding through the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The two-day science and medicine camp welcomed students from 18 regional communities to Health Science Campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":932,"featured_media":99387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,38,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/932"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99386"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99392,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99386\/revisions\/99392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"CampMed](\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CAMP-MED-06032026-8440-150x150.jpg\")
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