HealthForce Minnesota Partner News
Mayo mobile lab program brings state-of-the-art tech to students
Dodge Center, Minn. — High school students in Dodge Center had a opportunity to use state-of-the-art scientific equipment Wednesday as part of Mayo's Mobile Lab Program.
The mobile lab stopped at Triton High School in Dodge Center this week, the second year Mayo has provided science equipment to classrooms around southeastern Minnesota.
Guy Finne, a recruitment advisor at Mayo, said the clinic has long had a program to train teachers, but created the mobile lab to help them duplicate that training in their classrooms.
"It's been so popular we had to get a second trailer. We ended up with schools on a waiting list," Finne said. "We just didn't want to see that. These teachers are making the commitment to come in and get trained. We want them to have access to the lab."
The mobile lab is funded with a $75,000 grant from HealthForce Minnesota. Mayo provides an additional $10,000 in consumable supplies each year.
Original article copyright Minnesota Public Radio.
Baier, Elizabeth. “Mayo mobile lab program brings state-of-the-art tech to students”
MPRnewsQ. Web. 3 March 2010.
Mayo’s Mobile Science Lab — KAAL
Mobile Science Lab connects students to classroom & real world — KTTC
Mobile science lab gives Triton students hands-on experience — Rochester Post Bulletin
Health IT Training in March sponsored by Normandale College
Normandale College is sponsoring a training from March 15 – 17, 2010, “Certified Professional in Health IT.” It will be a three-day intensive training that will cover the world of Health IT, trends, and the important focus/knowledge/skills in both HC and IT that will be required of individuals who hope to work in this field, especially with the HC reform and mandates that already exist and those that are coming.
Ridgewater gets Grant for Mobile Simulation Unit
The grant, for fiscal year 2010, is a continuing education/custom training grant to develop a labor and delivery simulation training program for its mobile simulation unit, SimLab L1.
The college foundation raised money for the mobile unit, which went into service last summer. The grants were awarded for efforts that improve healthcare practice, education and research.
The grants were awarded for a variety of educational uses, but Ridgewater was the only organization to receive a grant for continuing education/custom training this fiscal year.
HealthForce Minnesota is one of four Centers of Excellence designated by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Board of Trustees. Each center is housed and managed by a state university that partners with two-year colleges.
Winona State University houses HealthForce Minnesota. Other centers are at Metropolitan State University, Bemidji State University and Minnesota State University, Mankato.
(NOTE: The same story was placed in the West Central Tribune and the Morris Sun Tribune.)