{"id":47854,"date":"2001-11-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2001\/11\/27\/unmc-and-wayne-state-partner-for-medical-technologyeducation-in-rural-nebraska\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T10:50:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T15:50:57","slug":"unmc-and-wayne-state-partner-for-medical-technologyeducation-in-rural-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2001\/11\/27\/unmc-and-wayne-state-partner-for-medical-technologyeducation-in-rural-nebraska\/","title":{"rendered":"UNMC and Wayne State Partner for Medical Technology\n\nEducation in Rural Nebraska"},"content":{"rendered":"

Administrators of the University of Nebraska Medical and Wayne State<\/p>\n

College have signed an agreement intended to boost the number of medical<\/p>\n

technologists working in rural Nebraska.<\/p>\n

The agreement now in operation is part of UNMCs Rural Health Opportunities<\/p>\n

Program, which was founded in late 1991, and is similar to the agreement<\/p>\n

signed during the 1991-92 academic year with Chadron State.  Recruiting<\/p>\n

rural students, who will then take all of their pre-professional education<\/p>\n

at Wayne State and their UNMC professional education at other distance<\/p>\n

learning sites, is invaluable to producing medical technologists who will<\/p>\n

remain with their local communities after graduation.<\/p>\n

Eighty-seven medical technology graduates have completed their entire<\/p>\n

year of clinical education in one of UNMCs clinical affiliates serving<\/p>\n

rural Nebraska.  In fact, in the 2000 graduation class of 30 students,<\/p>\n

the top two students were distance learners that never came to Omaha after<\/p>\n

an initial day of orientation.<\/p>\n

UNMCs medical technology program is a division of the School of Allied<\/p>\n

Health Professions.  Medical technologists, also known as clinical<\/p>\n

laboratory scientists, are the behind the scenes detectives in the health<\/p>\n

care industry.  They are skilled scientists who perform the kinds<\/p>\n

of tests that would confirm a case of diabetes, verify a potentially dangerous<\/p>\n

drug level, monitor the level of anti-rejection drugs in transplant patients,<\/p>\n

determine compatibility for organ donation, detect cases of cancer or leukemia,<\/p>\n

identify the causative microorganism in a blood or wound infection, or<\/p>\n

detect a cancerous tumor with DNA techniques.<\/p>\n

This new agreement is a gain for UNMC, Wayne State and Nebraska, said<\/p>\n

Karen Honeycutt, instructor, medical technology education and coordinator<\/p>\n

of the medical technology Rural Health Education Program.  There<\/p>\n

is a national shortage of medical technologists that is as critical as<\/p>\n

the nursing shortage, but doesnt get as much attention.  Last year<\/p>\n

there were 5,000 fewer graduates than available positions and these kinds<\/p>\n

of numbers mean that Nebraska is going to have to work hard to grow our<\/p>\n

own technologists.<\/p>\n

The strongest factor in increasing rural option agreements is that<\/p>\n

we have a very high return rate on our rural distance learning students. <\/p>\n

So far, 97 percent of the rural students we educate, while they continue<\/p>\n

to live in their communities, stay in rural communities after they graduate<\/p>\n

from our program. This is our response to UNMCs mission of increasing<\/p>\n

health professions in Nebraskas rural communities.<\/p>\n

The target audience for the new agreement includes high school seniors<\/p>\n

and science students from rural communities already attending Wayne State.<\/p>\n

If a student signs an option agreement during his or her senior year of<\/p>\n

high school or first years at Wayne State, maintains a 3.0 G.P.A and completes<\/p>\n

a minimum of 90 credit hours at Wayne State the payoff is huge. <\/p>\n

They have a guaranteed seat in medical technology education, even if there<\/p>\n

are 200 other students competing for 30 slots.  She said shes seen<\/p>\n

a lot of growth in medical technology awareness in rural areas.<\/p>\n

Jan Tompkins, medical technology educations rural program coordinator,<\/p>\n

lives in Grand Island and has spent more than 10 years as a recruiter and<\/p>\n

educator in rural Nebraska.<\/p>\n

We have had recruited Wayne State graduates to our medical technology<\/p>\n

program before and they did very well, Tompkins said.<\/p>\n

Todd Young, Ph.D., Wayne State assistant professor of physics and astronomy,<\/p>\n

is the new RHOP program director, and Doug Christensen, Ph.D., assistant<\/p>\n

professor of biology, is the new medical technology major adviser. <\/p>\n

They both are excited about the new agreement because it increases the<\/p>\n

choices for students who attend Wayne State.<\/p>\n

Students who enroll in our program will receive a hands-on educational<\/p>\n

atmosphere that is a fraction of the cost of other universities, Dr. Christensen<\/p>\n

said.<\/p>\n

We all want the same thing, Dr. Young said.  Give rural students<\/p>\n

the most health science career choices possible, with nationally competitive<\/p>\n

training that still enables those students to live locally.  This<\/p>\n

is the key to their staying here, practicing here and continuing to develop<\/p>\n

and serve our rural communities.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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