Nunavut Health Careers Camp May 9-13, 2022 – looking for participants and mentors/chaperones!

The week of May 9, 2022, Iqaluit will welcome students from across Nunavut to participate in the third annual Health Careers Camp. This camp is funded by Makigiaqta working in close partnership with Nunavut Arctic College, the Qikiqtani Regional Hospital, and the Departments of Health and Education. For any students considering health careers who are over 15 years of age and currently attending a high school in Nunavut, this camp may be for them!

We attempted to start the planning for this camp in the fall of 2021 but as you are all aware, Covid-19 has interrupted how we can plan for events such as this. While we know this is short notice, we have delivered this camp before, so we are able to pull a wonderful week of learning for the students together for this May. We need more Inuit choosing health careers and hope that your school will be able to send one or two students who may be considering a career in a health field along with a chaperone to accompany them.

We are inviting interested students from the Kivalliq and Qikiqtaaluk regions who are fully vaccinated to complete applications to attend this camp. Mentors/chaperones may be health professionals, health promotion workers, teachers or other volunteers with a health background or interest who will travel with students and assist with the delivery of camp activities and chaperone the participants. For more details, you can email Michelle directly (email below).

The camp’s home base will be at Nunavut Arctic College (NAC), with camp activities taking place at Qikiqtani General Hospital and in NAC’s simulation lab and classrooms. Students will have an opportunity to

• Learn about the many possible health careers they could pursue, and meet Nunavummiut with these roles
• Try out some clinical skills, like putting on casts, conducting hearing tests, or suturing
• Build a career planning portfolio, mapping out needed courses for the careers that interest them, in alignment with the Aulajaaqtuut element of the school curriculum.

For more information about the Nunavut Health Careers Camp, please contact: