Bruce C. Potter Memorial Scholarship
Bruce C. Potter was a North Country native, born and raised in Morley, New York. Bruce graduated from Clarkson University and received his MBA from New York University. He began his career in California with Coopers & Lybrand, but returned to the area in 1977 to serve as the Vice President for Planning and Finance at Canton-Potsdam Hospital. He was appointed President and CEO of Canton-Potsdam Hospital in 1987, and served in that capacity until his retirement in 2004. During his tenure, Bruce served in leadership positions on numerous Boards; he was a founding member and long-time Chair of the NAHEC Board. Bruce was dedicated to serving his communities, and he was passionately invested in the delivery of quality healthcare services to the region. He emphasized development of educational and training pathways for local individuals to pursue healthcare careers and deliver the quality services needed. His drive, character, integrity and passion for service embodied the foundation upon which NAHEC was founded, and continues to guide the organization’s operations and programs.
In 2011, NAHEC established the Bruce C. Potter Memorial Scholarship as a legacy to honor Bruce’s tireless commitment to building healthcare access for those most in need. The scholarship is a competitive annual award for High School Seniors, College Students, or Non-Traditional learners in good standing who have completed one or more NAHEC programs, and have been accepted and will be entering a healthcare training program within the next semester cycle.
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L. Thomas Wolff, M.D. Scholarship
Deadline: May 6, 2016
The L. Thomas Wolff Scholarship (“Scholarship”) is a competitive annual award for high school seniors, college students, or non-traditional learners in good standing who have completed one or more Central New York Area Health Education Center (“CNYAHEC”) programs, like MASH Camp, MedQuest, HealthQuest, or job shadowing. Scholarship selection criteria is based on academic achievement, community engagement, career plan, character, and personal (summary) statement.
Applicants must:
- be enrolled in a medical or health professions training program in the Fall 2016 semester
- be residents of Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Herkimer, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, Schuyler, Seneca, Tioga or Tompkins counties
The scholarship recipient will be provided a monetary award determined by the CNYAHEC Board of Directors based on funding availability. Past awards have averaged one-thousand dollars.
This award has been established to honor Dr. Wolff, a long-time local family physician, educator, and a co-founder of the New York State Area Health Education Center System (AHEC). We encourage all those who feel they may qualify to submit an application.
MASH Camps
MASH Camp, or the Medical Academy of Science and Health, is a fun and educational day camp for students entering 8th and 9th grades to explore health careers. Students are exposed to a variety of health professions, covering everything from on-the-job-training to an advanced college degree.
Campers enjoy two to three days of fun and interaction at a local hospital, where they will:
- Learn about a variety of health professions as viable career options;
- Learn about the educational requirements, skills, typical job duties, and personal qualities of successful health professionals and para-professionals; and
- Participate in interactive, hands-on workshops* that highlight the skills, equipment, technology, and resources used by health professionals.
As part of the camp experience, each participant will receive scrubs and lanyard with name badge to wear at camp; breakfast, lunch, and snacks; certificate of participation; and lots of attention from caring health professionals!
*Workshop topics vary by healthcare facility and may include physical therapy, nursing, surgery, food service, clinical laboratory sciences, cardiac care, pathology, diagnostic imaging, recreational therapy, pharmacy, emergency medicine, and others.
Upcoming MASH Camps
February 23rd and 24th
Upstate University Hospital Community Campus, Syracuse, NY
Applications are now open. Please click here to apply.
Therapeutic Recreation (B.S.) at Ithaca College
We’re proud to be one of a handful of institutions in the country to offer a major in therapeutic recreation. Our program prepares you for the national certification exam, which 100 percent of our graduates have passed.
A recreational therapist uses both client-focused intervention techniques and evidence based on practice to enhance people’s physical, cognitive, and emotional well-being through leisure activities.
In our program you’ll develop professional, interpersonal, and leadership skills and apply them in a variety of settings. At a long-term-care facility you may involve a person in recreational activities to reduce depression and increase socialization. At a mental health or substance abuse treatment facility you may help a person in recovery discover healthy leisure alternatives that promote wellness and self-esteem. At a community recreation center you may help involve a person with a disability in programs that build leisure skills, develop friendships, and enhance quality of life. At a hospital or rehabilitation center you may help a person with a traumatic injury develop functional skills necessary for successful community reintegration.
A variety of experiential activities accompany your in-class learning. Your early coursework combines disability studies with hands-on activities: For an entire semester you’ll be paired with a child with a developmental disability, participating in a swim program. Next you’ll build on this real-life experience by engaging in two 120-hour, service-learning experiences that emphasize programming and administration. You’ll conclude your studies with a semester-long internship at places such as the National Institutes of Health or Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, where you’ll learn to develop treatment plans and intervention strategies.
Interdisciplinary collaboration is a special feature of our program, offering opportunities to partner with other allied health departments such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology.
Exercise Science (B.S.) at Ithaca College
The exercise science degree provides students with a strong science foundation that emphasizes preparation for further specialized graduate study or direct entrance into a related career field, such as fitness management, fitness journalism, ergonomics, prosthetics, nutrition, pharmaceutical or medical equipment sales, coaching, or mind-body studies. Some of Ithaca’s exercise science graduates can be found teaching at the University of North Carolina, providing research assistance for the U.S. Olympic training center in Colorado, and in private practice in osteopathic medicine.
Our flexible, broad-based program combines major courses with a large number of electives. In addition to core courses in exercise science, you’ll take classes in other disciplines: communications, humanities, social sciences, computer applications, ethics, and the applied sciences. Courses in the major emphasize current research as well as its practical application. Our professors often collaborate with their students in meaningful research projects; in fact, students frequently present their findings at professional conferences sponsored by such organizations as the American College of Sports Medicine.
Some students combine the exercise science major with a minor, such as sport and exercise psychology, aging studies, or nutrition science. Alternatively, you may take preprofessional courses in preparation for further study in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, chiropractic, or physical therapy. The program also provides a great foundation for graduate study in biomechanics, exercise physiology, sport psychology, or neuromuscular control.
Clinical Exercise Science (B.S.) at Ithaca College
Growing awareness of the role that fitness and conditioning play in promoting wellness, preventing disease, and improving athletic performance — as well as the importance of exercise after illness or medical intervention — translates into a range of career opportunities in clinical exercise science.
In our program you’ll gain a broad foundation in the liberal arts and in the basic and applied sciences while learning such essential clinical procedures as measuring strength and flexibility, assessing blood pressure, evaluating neuromuscular function, analyzing cardiac and pulmonary function, and prescribing individualized exercise programs.
To apply that knowledge, you may work in the Robert R. Colbert Sr. Wellness Clinic right on campus. This unusual opportunity allows you to gain real-world, practical experience in promoting wellness to staff and faculty members of Ithaca College. Fieldwork and internships — including hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation, corporate fitness, or strength and conditioning for athletes — are a crucial part of every student’s education.
You can tailor your curriculum to specialize in personal training, strength and conditioning coaching, cardiac rehabilitation, youth or geriatric fitness, or fitness program management. Optional minors in such areas as nutrition or gerontology can also help focus your studies.
With a clinical exercise science degree, you’ll be prepared to take external certification examinations such as those offered by the American College of Sports Medicine or the National Strength and Conditioning Association, to attend medical school or graduate school in the allied health professions, or to pursue an advanced degree in exercise science, health and fitness management, or related fields. Our graduates are employed in a wide variety of occupations and work environments — as physician assistants, exercise physiologists, strength and conditioning coaches, or pharmaceutical representatives — in private, corporate, athletic, and health care settings.
Athletic Training (B.S.) at Ithaca College
The prevention, recognition, care, management, and rehabilitation of injury and illness in physically active populations are the professional domains of certified athletic trainers. Our nationally accredited and renowned academic major combines rigorous coursework in basic, applied, and medical sciences with equally rigorous and exciting clinical experiences to provide a comprehensive and challenging education.
Your clinical education begins in the sophomore year with our clinical faculty and the athletes on the College’s 25 intercollegiate sports teams. It continues into the junior and senior year, rotating among multiple clinical instructors — both on and off campus — to provide intensive exposure to differing types of injuries and patient populations, and results in a minimum of 780 hours of supervised clinical education before graduation.
Graduates of our program have traditionally scored well above the national average on the Board of Certification examination and are highly sought after for the nation’s leading graduate programs, professional positions, and internship and fellowship opportunities. As the field of sports medicine has grown and flourished, career choices have increased in a wide array of settings, from professional, collegiate, and secondary school athletic teams to physicians’ offices, hospitals, sports medicine clinics, the performing arts, industry, and law enforcement and the military. Because of its strong medical basis and emphasis, our athletic training program also prepares you to pursue graduate or professional education in such areas as advanced athletic training, physical therapy, exercise physiology, sports science, nursing, and medicine.
HealthQuest at Ithaca College
Live and learn about careers in exercise and sport sciences, occupational therapy, physical therapy, therapeutic recreation, speech-language pathology, and more on the beautiful Ithaca College campus, located on Ithaca’s South Hill overlooking Cayuga Lake. This five-day experience is for Central New York students entering 10th, 11th, and 12th grades.
At HealthQuest, you will:
- Explore a variety of health careers through interactive workshops;
- Learn from health professionals and college instructors;
- Identify the skills needed to succeed in health care; and
- Meet new people while experiencing dorm living and campus life!
The School of Health Sciences and Human Performance is proud to sponsor the annual HealthQuest resident summer camp!
MedLab Job Shadowing Program
Did you know? It is estimated that 70% of all decisions regarding a patient’s diagnosis and treatment are based on laboratory test results. Learn how medical laboratory professionals work as “medical detectives” to crack the case of a patient’s illness—needing only to analyze body fluid—during our exciting job shadowing program.
We’re partnering with the Bassett Healthcare Network to connect students to the world of medical laboratory science. High school and college students will have the unique opportunity to spend a total of 15 hours shadowing lab professionals in Cobleskill, Cooperstown, Delhi, Herkimer, Little Falls, Oneonta, or Sidney. At the end of the shadowing experience, students will receive a certificate of completion.
Explore Health Careers
ExploreHealthCareers.org is a free, multi-disciplinary, interactive health careers website that gives students (and educators) a reliable, comprehensive source of accurate, up-to-date information about the health professions. This includes information on and links to:
Our articles and blog posts provide the latest information on health care careers and associated educational opportunities and programs. Our monthly newsletter notifies subscribers about the latest articles on the site and keeps them updated on health care topics.
This website is a joint initiative involving national foundations, professional associations, health career advisors, educational institutions and college students. The information on ExploreHealthCareers.org comes from health associations, educational organizations, universities and colleges, government databases, professional journals and published articles.
ExploreHealthCareers.org Mission
Our mission is to help solve two urgent problems in U.S. health care:
- The under-representation of minorities in the workforce
- The shortage of health professionals in medically underserved communities
By addressing these problems, we hope to help more of today’s students become the health professionals of tomorrow.
We hope to help build a stronger health care workforce by providing easy access to updated, peer-reviewed career descriptions that inspire and motivate students to find health careers that suit them. The health professionals of tomorrow will be highly skilled, motivated and as diverse as the patients they serve.
They will also be committed to making our country’s health care system first-rate, and equally accessible to everyone in this nation. And we mean everyone.