Career and Technical Education

Health Science

MEDICAL CARE CAREERS I is designed to provide instruction in the following areas: health habits, interpersonal skills, healthcare history and trends, medical terminology, safety in healthcare, patient care skills, and job responsibilities of various healthcare workers. The purpose of this class is to introduce students to healthcare.

MEDICAL CARE CAREERS II allows students to learn multi competency healthcare skills through classroom, laboratory, and community-based activities. Topics to be covered in the course will include healthcare skills related to careers and illnesses while investigating the diseases and treatment of illnesses within each body system. The purpose of the course is to expose the students to the healthcare delivery system, thereby, enabling students to make tentative career choices.

MEDICAL CARE CAREERS III prepares students for employment in a specific healthcare job or entry into a healthcare postsecondary program. Topics that will be covered include diagnostic, therapeutic, preventive, and rehabilitative services. The purpose of this course is to allow students to participate in clinical experience by observing or assisting healthcare workers on the job, thereby, helping students to make tentative career choices and plan further training.