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Allied Health Occupations | Students explore many health occupations and develop basic skills common to all health professions and health care. Students have the opportunity to job shadow a health professional.
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Advanced Allied Health Occupations | Students learn advanced medical terminology and skills. Students participate in clinical rotations twice a week.
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Medical Assisting | Students perform EKGs, injections, venipunctures, and check vital signs. Students are given the opportunity to job shadow and participate in externships, preparing them for employment in an entry position at a medical facility.
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Dental Assisting | Students learn dental terminology, assessment, techniques, dental equipment, data collection, and basic dental skills, and participate in a job shadowing project with local dentists.
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Nurse Assisting | Students learn patient care techniques, anatomy/physiology, and medical terminology. Students visit a long term medical care facility where they are given the opportunity to deal directly with patients and patient care.
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Sports Medicine / Physical Theraphy Assisting | Students learn skills relating to sports injury and trauma, rehabilitation techniques and practices, and medical terminology. Students participate in an off-site clinical rotation, working directly with physical therapists, assistants and trainers.
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Emergency Response Training | Students learn First Aid, CPR and AED training to prepare them to respond to injuries and sudden illnesses that may arise in a variety of situations.
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Medical / Dental Receptionist | Students learn professional competencies and skills performed in the medical/dental office, and their application to real-life and on-the-job situations.
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Medical Terminology | Students learn foundational studies of medical terminology: dividing words into component parts, recognizing root words, combining forms, suffixes, prefixes, and understanding medical terminology meanings.
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Pre-Pharmacy | Students are introduced to pharmaceutical science, basic information about medication and drugs, metric and apothecary systems and calculations of basic medication dosage.
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