RMUoHP MPAS Students embody the University’s core value of service in a variety of student-planned and student-led local and international service projects
One of RMUoHP’s newest and most beloved core values is that of service to the community, to healthcare and to education. Not only do our PA students participate in official RMUoHP-sponsored service projects and activities with enthusiasm, they also take it upon themselves to coordinate service opportunities in their spare time. The following are several service-oriented projects that our MPAS Cohort one students have participated in recently, and projects that they have planned for the coming months:
- PA student Tyson McBride organized an Elementary School Hygiene and Disease Prevention project on April 12 where PA students Josh Leazenby, Jesse Golodner, Katie Cox and Danele Cebrowski gave short 20 minute presentations about hygiene and illness prevention to 4th and 5th graders at Timpanogos Elementary School.
- At Christmastime, the PA student leadership put together a winter holiday party and incorporated service by setting up a “random acts of kindness” tree where people could choose a candy cane that had a random act of kindness on it, like buying someone’s coffee, or paying for someone’s groceries.
In the near future, MPAS 1 students will be participating with the Rural Area Medical Volunteer Corps to set up a 2-day volunteer clinic in a rural area in or near Las Vegas, NV. The project is led by PA faculty member Kelly Fife. - By the request of PA 1 student Brad Dahl, and with the help of Jesse Golodner, faculty member Tiffany Rees and preceptor Adam Wright, beginning this semester, PA students will be volunteering at the Volunteer Care Clinic in Provo, an after-hours clinic run by volunteers, that provides low-income residents of Provo medical care free of charge. Volunteering at the Clinic is being added to the curriculum for the PA Program, and all students will participate at least once per semester, under the direction of preceptor Adam Wright. Tyson McBride, a PA 1 student, has been volunteering at the clinic for some time, and was recently nominated for an award by the other volunteers, recognizing his service.
- In August, 9 PA students will be traveling with the University to Malawi to participate in clinical rotations and service. During that time, several more PA students will be going on a separate medical mission trip to Ecuador with Charity Anywhere, organized by their classmate David Beuhler.
