Correspondence students to experience Incubator

22 June 2009

Correspondence School students to experience Incubator…

In a first for the New Zealand correspondence school students are getting together at Hawke’s Bay Hospital for an “Incubator experience”. On Tuesday 23 June over 50 students from around Hawke’s Bay will gather to complete a range of Incubator learning modules.

The DHB’s multi award winning Incubator programme (most recently taking out the IPANZ, State Services Commission Award for Excellence in Improving Performance through People winner) generally takes its careers mentoring programme into the classroom.

Says Wynn Schollum, Programme Incubator manager “at the heart of the Incubator experience is the interaction between students and health professionals. The programme exposes students to a variety of learning styles which are not easily duplicated in an individual distant learning model.”

For the students this will be the first opportunity they have had to get together as a health focused group and with a full day programme planned, experience learning health careers and wellbeing, in a more personal interactive way.

Health workers attending - who include nursing, nurse flight crew, occupational and physiotherapists, GP, Paramedic and St John staff, Surgeon and Mental Health staff - will be working with the students and discussing their career development and passion for health.

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