title: Breezing up--an interdisciplinary health professions course for high school juniors and seniors and college freshmen.
abstract: Recruiting students into the health professions is an ever growing problem as young people are faced with many attractive options for career choices. At the same time, a rapidly growing elderly population will require more health professionals to maintain the health system. To address this recruitment issue an interdisciplinary health professions course delivered to high schools and college campuses in North Dakota via the Internet was developed at the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS). The participating high schools embedded the course in the health professions curriculum and students were given the option of receiving college credit. The course features presentations by professionals representing 16 different health professions and were developed using a new software called Macromedia Breeze that allows for easy recording of PowerPoint audio presentations and imputing video content into the presentation. Blackboard was utilized for course management.
authors.affiliation: Continuing Medical Education and Outreach, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks 58202-9037, USA. wbruce@medicine.nodak.edu
authors.forename: A Wayne
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Bruce
authors.forename: Kylie J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Behm
authors.forename: Nasser
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hammami
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D006281:Health Occupations / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet