Linked to Canada’s Making it Work project, as part of the Canadian steering committee’s goal to promote health careers among Nunavut youth, the week of February 12-16, 2018, 20 Inuit students from six communities across Nunavut participated in a Health Careers Camp at Nunavut Arctic College (NAC) in Iqaluit. Camp activities took place at Qikiqtani General Hospital and in NAC’s simulation lab and classrooms. Students from Arviat, Naujaat, Taloyoak, Clyde River, Pond Inlet, and Iqaluit attended the camp, accompanied by a mentor from their communities. This pilot project is intended to promote health careers among Nunavummiut and is based on a similar health career camp for youth hosted by the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. (see link)
http://www.nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/65674nunavut_teens_get_crash_course_in_health_jobs/
Luke Nuliayuk, a 15-year-old from Taloyoak, holds a pig’s heart during a health-careers camp in Iqaluit, Feb. 14.
(PHOTO BY BETH BROWN)
Eeyeevadlok Josephie, left, and Luke Nuliayuk try their hand at surgical suturing.
(PHOTO BY BETH BROWN)
Students from across Nunavut take part in a health-careers camp in Iqaluit, Feb. 12 to Feb. 16. Here, during a workshop on smoking cessation, they are shown the difference between a healthy lung and the lung of a person who has smoked heavily for 20 years. The lungs in the photo are from a pig, the black one made to look like the lung of a heavy smoker.
(PHOTO BY BETH BROWN)
Brown, B. (2018, February 22). Nunavut teens get crash course in health jobs. Nunatsiqa News. Retrieved from http://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/65674nunavut_teens_get_crash_course_in_health_jobs/
