About 30 junior and senior high school students from throughout Southeast Missouri will attend the Bootheel Medics Health Professions Camp, July 24-29, at Southeast Missouri State University.

The camp is sponsored by the Southeastern Missouri Area Health Education Center.

Co-sponsors of the health camp are St. Francis Medical Center, Southeast Missouri State University and its College of Health and Human Services, with support from other regional hospitals, health departments, clinics, banks and individuals throughout Southeast Missouri.

Sherri Hinrichs, director of the area health education center, said some of the students who will attend the camp already are involved in volunteer health-care work in their home towns. Others are enrolled in special classes to prepare them for health degree programs or various types of certification in health-related careers.

All have expressed an avid interest in health professions.

Health care professionals have volunteered their time to work with the visiting students and help them make good career choices.

In addition, university faculty members will lead science workshops in chemistry, biology, genetics and research. Field trips are scheduled to St. Francis Medical Center and Southeast Missouri Hospital, and the camp will include career presentations on several other health-related occupations.

Area physicians also will meet and talk with the campers about their health career plans.

For more information on the event, call Hinrichs at 785-2444.