Are you interested in a career in the medical field or know a student who is?
Healthy Archuleta has partnered with the Drexel University College of Medicine to offer Archuleta County youth a chance to learn more about health care careers.
The first session will be Tuesday, June 17, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in the Department of Human Services conference room.
Dara Bright, Ph.D., will talk about health care careers.
Bright will discuss the different types of health care careers, such as traditional and nontraditional careers, and what classes to focus on now to get into health care.
Bright is an educator with more than eight years of experience providing learning and career advisement to students.
Bright’s formal training and expertise are centered around equity and community-informed measurement practices. Bright’s scholarship delves into the crossroads of the opportunity gap in higher education and the unique challenges confronting marginalized students.
Recently awarded a CADRE Fellowship, her research critically addresses the inequitable and oppressive systems that obstruct opportunities for students of color. She earned her doctorate in education with a focus on quantitative methods, assessment and evaluation. She also holds a Master’s of Science in public policy from Georgia Tech and a bachelor’s from the College of William and Mary.
The second session will be Thursday, June 19, from 2:30 to 4 p.m., where three Drexel medical students will share their experience about med school.
Specifically, each student will share their specific path to medicine and the obstacles they overcame to get into medicine. As third- and fourth-year medical students, they’ll share what it’s like to be a medical student and what they do each day.
Tomas Fencl is a fourth-year student applying to general surgery. He will be here to tell you that you don’t need to have everything figured out right now; he didn’t figure this path out until he was almost 30. He misses Colorado and hopes to make it back whenever his training allows it.
Ashley Dillon is a third-year medical student at the Drexel University College of Medicine. Currently, she is not sure what specialty of medicine she is interested in, but is excited to hopefully find her niche this year during her clinical rotations. She is originally from a small town in rural Wyoming and can understand the difficulties surrounding rural medicine, but also how daunting it can be to pursue a career or education that can take you out of your community. She is so excited to talk to the youth more and share her journey as well as answer any questions that they may have on pursuing college, medicine or anything in between.
Jahan Aslami grew up in Loveland, Colo., attended the University of Colorado Boulder, and earned his master’s degree at Colorado State. He left Colorado for medical school when he was accepted to the Drexel University College of Medicine. He is currently starting his fourth year of medical school after finishing up a research year with the Orthopedic Surgery Program at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. He got involved with this program to strengthen his application for an orthopedic residency, hopefully back home at the University of Colorado.
Please join us at the Department of Human Services conference room for both events. No registration is required. To learn more about the efforts of Healthy Archuleta, please visit our website at www.foodcoalition4archuleta.org or send us an email at fsfearchuleta@gmail.com.
