The proof is in the pudding for a high school program that exposes students interested in the health field to the profession.
Tom Kujawa took part in the week long MedLINCS camp five years ago as a student at UCC. The 21-year-old is back in Chatham after his first year at the University of Western Schulich School of Medicine. He's returned as a MedLINCS camp leader, and looking back, he says the experience as a student was an important one.
"When I did it I didn't really know health care, like how it worked, who was involved," says Kujawa. "So everyone knows about the doctor and dentist, fire and paramedics, but there are also lots of other people that are involved in care so it really exposed me to the different possibilities."
Kujawa wraps-up the six-week program, which is run in conjunction with the University, this week. At this point Kujawa says he's liking family and emergency medicine because of the variety they offer, and could practice both. MedLINCS has two components, one week with high school students interested in the health field, and other five weeks shadowing physicians and other health professionals to see how health care works in smaller communities.
