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2025 Health Sciences Summer Camp

March 14, 2025


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Explore your future in health care

Interested in a career in health care? Whether you want to work directly with patients or behind the scenes in research, technology, or administration, the Mizzou Health Sciences Camp is the perfect opportunity to discover the many pathways in the field!

Over the course of this week-long camp, you’ll engage in hands-on activities, interactive simulations, and real-world case studies led by experts in healthcare professions. You’ll gain insight into fields such as public health, clinical laboratory science, physical and occupational therapy, health administration, radiography, and more.

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Camp details

  • Who should attend: High school students interested in exploring careers in health care
  • Camp dates: July 21-25, 2025
  • Location: Mizzou campus, Columbia, Missouri
  • Cost for commuters: $400, includes lunch, dinner and snacks
  • Cost for overnight campers: $550, includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and housing in a university residence hall
  • Registration deadline: July 1, 2025

Have questions? Email healthsciences@missouri.edu.

What you’ll experience

  • Hands-On Learning: Participate in interactive workshops covering topics like medical imaging, disease prevention, rehabilitation sciences, and healthcare leadership.
  • Real-World Simulations: Step into the role of a health care professional by solving patient cases and working through health science challenges.
  • Behind-the-Scenes Access: Tour state-of-the-art labs and clinical spaces where health care professionals diagnose, treat, and support patient care.
  • Meet the Experts: Engage with faculty, health care providers, and students to learn about different career paths and how to prepare for college and beyond.

Camp activities

  • Lead Your Own Hospital: Design a functional hospital while balancing budgets, staffing, and patient care.
  • Outbreak Investigation: Act as public health experts to trace the source of an outbreak and contain it.
  • Blood Typing Lab: Work in a clinical lab setting to determine blood types and understand transfusions.
  • Health Science Escape Room: Solve medical puzzles and diagnostic challenges to “save” a patient in this immersive experience.

Sample daily schedule

  • Day 1: Welcome and Orientation (check-in begins at 1 p.m.)
  • Days 2-4: Hands-On Healthcare Experience (9 a.m.-6 p.m.)
  • Day 5: Wrap Up and Future Planning (camp ends at 1 p.m.)

Campus cancelation policy

The University of Missouri College of Health Sciences reserves the right to cancel any program in the event of insufficient registrations, severe weather or natural disaster. In the event of cancellation, registrants will be notified immediately via email and phone, and all fees will be retuned in full.