Rural Student Health Sciences Mentorship
Program Provides Guidance, Advice to Rural High School Students Seeking Health Care Careers
West Texas is dotted with many small communities whose heartbeats can be felt at the family farms, cattle ranches and oil patches that define rural life across the region. Unfortunately, living the rural life in West Texas also means there can be fewer options for some of the most essential goods and services such as health care.
There also are high school students within these communities whose career goals have nothing to do with cotton bales, branding irons or pump jacks. Instead, their dreams are to become doctors, nurses, pharmacists or other health care professionals.
However, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) School of Medicine student Asher George said, these rural students generally lack the required resources, appropriate guidance and experienced role models to understand the course they must start mapping out in high school and then navigate throughout nearly a decade of schooling to ensure their dreams can become a reality.
