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Hospice and Medical Careers Pathway
Mission
Chatsworth Charter High School’s Medical Hospice Careers Pathway provides a rigorous curriculum that uniquely prepares well-rounded citizens to be college and career ready for the medical career fields. Our students are exposed to a broad range of medical careers. A thoughtfully designed curriculum, guest speakers, job shadowing, internships, college classes, project based learning, portfolio defense, advisories, student research, and field trips provide the students the opportunity to make informed choices in regards to pursue a career in the medical profession. Empathy Matters
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Patient Care (PC) – Medical Health Science & Medical Technology (HSMT)
Medical Sciences and Careers Pathway includes courses driven to promote medical terminology knowledge, health science emergency medicine skills, and productive health/fitness management abilities. |
Two course sequence with a certification process
- Intro: Introduction to Patient Care
- Concentrator Course: Medical Terminology
- Capstone Course: Hospital Occupations
- Certification Assessment: CPR
- Dual Enrollment: Medical Terminology
Looking for Careers in the Medical Field? Why the Hospice and Medical Careers Pathway?
There is a huge misconception that students enrolled in CCHS’s Hospice and Medical Careers Pathway will be groomed to become doctors. On the contrary, medical pathway students will be exposed to all aspects of the medical profession. Through a carefully designed curriculum, guest speakers, job shadowing, student research and additional high learning opportunities, students will be given the tools and taught the life skills necessary to make informative choices in regards to pursuing a career in the medical profession.
What’s in store for the Hospice and Medical Careers and Pathway Student?
Chancellors in the Hospice and Medical Careers Pathway will be enrolled in a rigorous curriculum. Classes are designed to have the pathway's emphasis of Hospice Care. Students will participate in lessons with real world applications. Core classes and electives will be centered around the medical profession bound Chancellor. The cliché of, “Why do I need to learn this?” will never be asked in these specially designed lessons. CCHS’s Hospice and Medical Careers Pathway teachers are always revisiting the curriculum to assure that all lessons meet the Common Core Standards and Project Based Learning help better prepare our Chancellors to succeed in state mandated tests and college entrance exams. Every detail of the pathway is in constant review to make this program the best that it can possibly be.
The pathway includes but is not limited to these opportunities:
- Guest speakers from all aspects of medical professions;
- A Hospice and Medical Careers’ Pathway Board consisting of community, parents, staff, teachers and students;
- AP Courses;
- On-site college courses;
- Job shadowing;
- Field trips;
- Organ Donation Fair and Blood Museum Project Bases Learning;
- Club affiliation opportunities (HOSA);
- Parent Involvement;
- Award assemblies;
- Speakers from medical universities both private and public and technical colleges;
- Tutoring;
- Mentoring;
- Medical Equipment hands-on training;
- Mental Health Certification;
- Certificate at graduation;
- CPR Certification;
- Health Occupations Certification;
- Charity Drives;
- Community Service;
- College Credit