ATSU - Truman Healthcare Academy 2024

The ATSU-Truman Healthcare Academy is a summer academy aimed at high school students who will have completed grades 9-11 at the end of the school year. Partnering with A.T. Still University, Truman State University offers high school students interested in a career in the healthcare field a week on campus to learn about health professions through hands-on activities and stimulating discussions. Students live in a residence hall on the Truman campus under the supervision of resident staff and preceptors and participate in a variety of activities held each day. All students will learn about health professions through hands-on activities and stimulating discussions. In many sessions students will engage in simulations where they attempt to address real problems confronted by health care professionals. Students might be asked to address a major epidemic, develop a health communication campaign, organize an emergency room triage process, or respond to a bioterrorist attack. Students will get to use actual health care and medical facilities, including the ATSU cadaver lab, where students will have direct contact with real human systems and handle actual human organs; human-patient simulators, where medical students learn how to respond to actual patient crises; and biological, clinical, and exercise laboratories on both the Truman and ATSU campuses.