North Light Health, Assistant to the State Doctor Assistant teacher is to expand access to rural health.
In 2023, North Light Health, one of the oldest historical black colleges and universities in the country, began cooperation with the Morehouse Medical School in Atlanta. Students are part of an initiative to allow students to complete clinical rotations in the three health care in Maine.
“I think that everyone is important to look at quality,” Katie Bandstra said Katie Bandstra in the northern light Katie Bandstra.
Bandstra, who was an old doctor’s assistant, leaped an faith.
“It was super thrilled to get the opportunity to travel to Maine,” Banstra said.
He walked 1000 miles from where he studied at Atlanta, to start clinical rotations in the state of northern light health.
“Rural health is a passion for mine,” said Bandstra.
The program helps a doctor’s assistant students gain experience in the event of a career in Maine.
“I really wanted to be part of my clinical education to start living as a student,” said Bandstra.
The temporary stay has become a permanent one and now works as a doctor for three weeks.
“It is very interesting to make me complete what I want to do,” Banstra said.
So far, four students have completed the program and one decided to stay in Maine to start his professional career.
“I’m like a proud mother, I love,” Dermita Wilson, Deputy Vice President of the North Lightweight.
Wilson is trying to close the gap in terms of health and providers.
“It is a phenomenal opportunity for us to hire it for the time when they graduated.”
The goal is to expand Maine’s health workforce.
“Patients really include a more serious provider that looks like and resembling them,” Wilson said.
As part of the program, there are between 10 and 15 students expected to complete three clinical returns between 10 and 15.
“The idea is that we will have a pipeline to new providers who are in the village and ready to work in our agriculture,” he said.
Bandstra hopes to inspire others to start the leashet and the spear of the pipeline.
“Leap and do it,” said Bandstra.
North Light Health, these clinical routes hit more students from 10 seats, including facilities in blue hill, Greenville and Ellsworth.
