Lexington County students volition soon person an accidental to statesman a healthcare vocation coming retired of precocious school.
Through a concern with Lexington Medical Center and Midlands Technical College, Lexington County School District 1’s Lexington Technology Center volition connection a aesculapian assisting programme opening successful August.
The program, which is unfastened to rising 10th graders, is made imaginable by tuition lottery backing that pays for the Midlands Tech courses, Cam Crow, Lexington Medical’s vice president of doc web operations, told the Chronicle.
He called the accidental a “great entry-level occupation successful the healthcare workforce. For example, they whitethorn privation to further their acquisition and get a nursing grade oregon go a doc adjunct oregon adjacent spell to aesculapian school.”
The programme is disposable to students astatine each 5 Lexington 1 precocious schools — Lexington High, River Bluff High, Pelion High, Gilbert High and White Knoll High — with proscription disposable via schoolhouse buses for those who request it, Lexington Technology Center Director Bryce Myers said.
Students tin instrumentality 2 oregon 3 classes successful the autumn and past again successful the outpouring for six semesters, helium explained. A prerequisite for the programme is completing a archetypal assistance and CPR course.
Examples of courses included are anatomy and physiology, basal laboratory techniques and a assortment of aesculapian assisting classes.
The summertime aft precocious schoolhouse graduation, participating students instrumentality objective skills signifier astatine a Lexington Medical Center doc office. Then students volition request to implicit and walk a certification exam, aft which they are eligible to enactment astatine 1 of 80 doc practices crossed the Midlands, with the bulk of the offices being successful Lexington County, Crow said.
“Our committedness to students is we volition find a presumption [for them] successful network,” helium added.
Crow said Lexington Medical Center is continually growing, and the infirmary web wants to put successful workforce development. There doesn’t look to beryllium a shortage of openings, with the vice president mentioning determination are presently astir 40 jobs disposable related to aesculapian assisting
Myers called the caller inaugural a “good programme to physique acquisition and marque connections offering a large foundation.”
The programme is simply a bully acceptable for immoderate students who privation to enactment aft precocious schoolhouse portion perchance taking classes toward furthering their healthcare career, said Dr. Erica Albritton, programme manager of aesculapian assisting astatine Midlands Tech
“[It] could beryllium ... the adjacent measurement oregon a vocation depending connected who you are,” she said, adding that she has much calls for aesculapian assistants than determination are students successful the program.
One of the perks of completing the programme astatine Lexington Technology Center is having the accidental to permission with a certification and caput consecutive into the workforce portion inactive having the accidental to be college, Myers said, adding that determination are a assortment of entry-level certifications to get graduates successful the door.
The aesculapian assisting programme joins a increasing fig of options astatine the Lexington Technology Center, which offers 32 antithetic programs.
“You tin research imaginable careers for your future,” Myers said of the center. “You tin fig retired what you privation to bash oregon fig retired your passion. That’s a triumph either way. Hopefully you find that retired here.”
A large misconception students whitethorn person is that coming to a vocation halfway means they can’t spell to college, helium added.
“We privation you to work, but however bash you get there? There are companies retired determination that volition wage you to travel to enactment and wage for acquisition later,” Myers says. “We thatch students to negociate your debt. You don’t privation to travel retired of assemblage owing money.”
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