Huron Expositor, 2007-06-27, Page 6Page 6 June 27, 2007 • The Huron Expositor
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First year medical students expect to learn as
much as high school students during MedQuest
Susan H u n d e r t m a r k
A ride in a four -seater airplane in
Wingham and a night watching
Cats at the Huron Country
Playhouse in Grand Bend are just
two of the ways three first-year
medical students have been wel-
comed to the area this year as they
prepare to run the second annual
MedQuest camp.
Karenina Aguilar, of London,
Hanga Agoston, of Tillsonburg and
Marvin Chum, of Toronto - from the
Schulich School of Medicine and
Dentistry at the University of
Western Ontario - are into their
third week in Seaforth of six weeks
job -shadowing local physicians and
working as camp counsellors at
MedQuest.
MedQuest brings 30 Grade 10 and
11 students from across Huron and
Perth Counties to Seaforth July 9-
13 for an experience learning about
careers in healthcare.
During that week, they will
suture wounds in stuffed animals,
give injections to oranges, learn to
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First year medical students Marvin
Chum, of Toronto, Hanga Agoston, of
Tillsonburg and Karenina Aguilar, of
London, are in Seaforth for the next sev-
eral weeks to job shadow local doctors
and run the MedQuest camp July 9-13.
set casts and splints, watch a simu-
lated birth, participate in a mock
disaster and job shadow various
healthcare professionals in the area.
"We're looking forward to learning
everything. As much as the high
school students will learn during
MedQuest, it will be just as benefi-
cial for us," says Agoston.
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have been job shadowing through-
out the area two and a half days a
week and planning the camp the
rest of the time.
Chum, who's job shadowed doctors
in Clinton and Stratford, says he
notices how hands-on rural medi-
cine is and how involved physicians
become in their communities.
"Doctors really seem to enjoy the
fact that they can follow a family as
it grows. They can see the youngest
son grow up and then deliver his
family," he says.
Aguilar says she's struck by the
variety a rural doctor will have,
practising in family medicine, work-
ing in hospital and emergency as
well as visiting nursing homes.
"It seems a little more exciting
and that you can keep things fresh
with the variety," she says.
While the three are working all
week and living in the apartment at
the Seaforth post office, they are
taking advantage of the weekends
to visit the sights throughout Huron
and Perth like the beaches and
shops in Bayfield and Goderich.
"Marvin and I have joined Rob's
Gym," says Aguilar and Agoston
adds she's been hiking and biking
everywhere with the aim of finding
some fresh strawberries at a local
farm.
Laura Overholt, manager of the
Healthkick program which orga-
nizes MedQuest, says she's happy
how communities are working hard
to make the medical students feel
welcome.
"People are really starting to
understand what this initiative is
trying to accomplish and they're
taking a real interest in participat-
ing," she says.
"Communities have really come to
the table as far as giving experi-
ences to the students goes," says
Overholt.
As well, she says the students are
throwing themselves into the total
experience, staying in the communi-
ty on their days off.
"This group is making the most of
the experience," she says.
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