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Show lf they can't come to us we go fo them... + A Weber State College car winds down the highway to a rural hospital. WSC personnel are Wee ge Sd AMAR 8 5 4 taking on-campus classes, modified to be taught off-campus, to employees at a hospital removed from colleges and universities. This program, operated by the Office of Outreach Education, School of Allied Health Sciences, reaches health students throughout Utah and also in Wyoming, Idaho and Nevada. Last year 143 students in rural areas completed courses. Let’s follow along and find out how this growing program functions. 2- Coalville - small, picturesque, is typical of the communities the School of Allied Health reaches out to- oS 4- Representative of WSC personnel taking “outreach education” to hospital employees are King Hastings, director of the Office of Outreach Education, ‘ School of Allied Health Sciences, | and i Ruth Wheeler, assistant professor of Nursing and coordinator of Continuing Education for the Nursing Department. |