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Instructors know the reality; many areas of health education can't be covered with the limited time and resources available. As a result, students aren't given opportunities to explore different avenues and acquire the cross training skills necessary to make an educated career choice within the health care field.

In response to this need, Applied Technologies presents the Health Science Education Series. The two programs in this Series are correlated to the National Health Care Skills Standards established by the National Consortium on Health Science & Technology Education to create an educationally sound, standards-driven curriculum with specific, hands-on skill sets:

• Foundations - 11 units totaling 120-150 hours delivered in a web browser format accompanied by lesson plans for instructor-led activities

• Career Pathways - a high-level, multimedia modular curriculum designed to give students knowledge and hands-on experience in specific career areas; educators can use the curriculum as either independent or lock-step group study

The development is being led by state and national health care skill standards, as well as an advisory board consisting of state health occupation supervisors.

Case Study Videos

Because our Health Science Education products--Foundations and, especially, Career Pathways--can be taught in a variety of ways (modular, demonstration, lock-step), we have begun doing video case studies of how teachers use our products.  First, we visited Kandy Callaghan at Nature Coast Technical High School in Brooksville, FL.  We invite you now to watch the video segments on each Health Science Education product line:

• Foundations video

• Career Pathway Units video

A few months later, we visited Richardson High School in Richardson, TX and spent a few days with Director of Health Science Becky Saba and her students.  We produced two segments from this visit:

• Career Preparation with Pathways - In the first segment, Becky and her students discuss how the Applied Technologies Career Pathways Units help the program be more diverse, how it helped the students decide on health science careers, how it helped them have more meaningful clinical experiences, and how it helped them compete and succeed in HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America).

• Program Implementation/Teaching Method - In this segment, Becky describes how her program grew from a class of 12 seniors to a full four-year program.  She also explains how she facilitates her class as "12 labs are going on at the same time."

If you would like a DVD version of these segments, please let us know.

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