Fairfax Co. students check out health care career options with virtual tools from GWU - WTOP

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Using augmented reality, precocious schoolhouse students astatine West Potomac Academy successful Fairfax County, Virginia, examined the wrong of a quality bosom and a afloat skeleton.

A 45-foot-long autobus filled with interactive displays and different tools that usage augmented and virtual world offered opportunities to larn much astir wellness attraction occupation opportunities.

“Everyone seems to beryllium much engaged a batch much than they would beryllium if they were successful a schoolroom similar listening to a teacher lecture,” said Taralyn Bailey, a elder who wants to survey pharmacology.

The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences and Medi-Corps Program brought their Immersive Learning Center to West Potomac Tuesday morning. Dozens of precocious schoolers funny successful wellness attraction hopped connected the autobus and participated successful an interactive workout that highlights antithetic wellness attraction careers.

“We commencement with an wounded connected a shot field. We person that diversion trainer travel retired and effort to assistance the student, and past it conscionable moves on to the EMTs that bring him to George Washington University, our nurses, our aesculapian laboratory scientists, aesculapian assistants, radiographers and surgeons,” said Linda Zanin, the manager of Strategic Partnerships for The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. “And we conscionable spell close down the line, and we yet extremity with rehabilitation sciences.”

The caller programme from The George Washington University volition collaborate with each the Governor’s Health Sciences academies successful Fairfax, Loudoun, Arlington and Alexandria. The extremity is to exposure students to the much than 250 antithetic wellness subject professions and grow their cognition to galore fields beyond conscionable nurses and doctors.

“I consciousness exposing them to that is showing them what they’re really going to beryllium doing successful existent life, particularly if the students don’t person the clip successful their docket to bash an internship oregon externship; gives them an accidental to travel to spot what’s going to hap successful the existent world,” said dental careers teacher with Fairfax County Rene Guerrero Ruiz.

The squad from GWU besides brought iPads implicit with augmented world that research quality anatomy and let students to afloat research immoderate different system, specified arsenic the nervous, circulatory oregon lymphatic systems.

“We can’t bring cadavers to the students to dissect. But they tin really bash that with this incredibly almighty tool,” Zanin said.

The autobus is expected to sojourn 3 much Fairfax County Public Schools academies successful the coming weeks.

Luke Lukert

Since joining WTOP Luke Lukert has held conscionable astir each occupation successful the newsroom from shaper to web writer and present helium works arsenic a full-time reporter. He is an avid instrumentality of UGA football. Go Dawgs!

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