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College Career & Life Readiness

Biomedical Innovation & Health Careers

  • Posted by Laurel Hale
  • Categories College Career & Life Readiness, Latest News
  • Date March 8, 2017

Overview

Biomedical Innovation and Health Careers is a two period (5th and 6th) science class that is recognized by colleges and universities throughout the country as a rigorous, college-prep science class where you apply critical thinking and designing skills to solve problems.

This course is a two-period blocked class that involves:

  • Long-term research projects
  • Job shadowing
  • Mentoring from healthcare professionals
  • Medical Terminology Certification
  • CPR Certification

Prerequisites

Juniors and Seniors

To enroll, you must have taken one of these classes, earning a B or better (or with approval from Biomedical Innovation instructor):

  • Medical Interventions
  • Human Body Systems
  • Anatomy and Physiology
  • AP Biology

Successful students will be self-motivated and willing to work without direct instructions for several days in a row

Credits

• 1.0 Science credit
• 1.0 CTE credit

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 Experiments and Activities

Here are a few of the labs and activities you will do in Biomedical Innovation:

  • Designing hospital facilities
  • Conduct experiments and heart, lung, and muscle function
  • Examine medical equipment and make it better
  • Test well water for toxins and apply the results to human health
  • Investigate an epidemic and design solutions to help
  • Use PCR, restriction enzymes, transformation, plasmids and cloning methods to solve problems
  • Perform an autopsy on a fetal pig
  • Design your own long-term project
  • Work with mentors
  • Job-shadow professionals

 

Biomedical Innovation and Health Careers will also include industry-level certification for Medical Terminology as well as CPR/1st Aid!

 

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In Biomedical Innovation and Health Careers, students apply their knowledge and skills to answer questions and solve problems related to biomedical sciences.  Students design innovative solutions for healthcare challenges of the 21st century as they work through progressively challenging, open-ended problems such as clinical medicine, physiology, biomedical engineering, and public health.  Students have the opportunity to work on independent projects and may work with mentors from the health care industry.  Throughout the course, students are expected to present their work to an audience that may include representatives from education, business, and the health care community.  This course will include learning the standards to earn industry certification in medical terminology and will also participate in approximately 35 hours of worksite learning, including job-shadowing a variety of professionals in the healthcare industry.  Biomedical Innovations and Health Careers will be partnering with colleges to receive college credit.

Topics

Problem 1 Design of Effective Emergency Room

Research and design an effective emergency room

Problem 2 Exploring Human Physiology

Design and conduct and long-term research study

Problem 3 Design of a Medical Innovation

Research and design improvements on medical products

Problem 4 Investigating Environmental Health

Explore toxicology and environmental effects on health

Problem 5 Combating a Public Health Issue

Develop a public health campaign to prevent a disease

Problem 6 Molecular Biology in Action

Use DNA technology to solve a missing persons case

Problem 7 Forensic Autopsy

Perform an autopsy on a fetal pig

Problem 8 Independent Project

Design, conduct, and present a research project. The sky’s the limit!

 

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For more information or to register contact your school counselor. 

 

 

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