Six junior and senior high school students from Benton County attended a Medical Applications of Science for Health (M*A*S*H) camp July 8-19 at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest in Fayetteville. On July 14, the students Travis McCloskey, from left, Keelyn Dooley, Sabrina Hughes, Mercedes Thompson, Cindy Coronado and Audrey Gibson, participated in a heart dissection exercise. The twoweek summer medical enrichment experience is designed to give interested students a glimpse of what a health profession is really like. Students participated in a variety of activities including observing surgery; learning more about anatomy through dissection of animal organs; learning about reading x-rays; shadowing a doctor making rounds; an automobile crash simulation and many others. The program hopes to encourage rural youth interested in medical fields to continue their education and then return to rural areas to work. Students were sponsored by the Arkansas MENTOR Medical Partnership and Washington County Farm Bureau. The Partnership includes the University of Arkansas for Medical Science’s Area Health Education Centers and Rural Hospital Program, Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Arkansas Farm Bureau, Baptist Health and the Arkansas Health Department’s Office of Oral Health.