High school students interested in an in-depth, honors-level program that immerses them in careers in medicine are encouraged to attend a Jan. 19 open house.
New Visions: Health Careers is a one-year, honors-level program that turns area hospitals into classrooms for highly motivated, academically successful high school seniors. In the program, students from across the region learn through traditional methods (lecture, reading, research, writing and focused study), group discussions, internships and rotations.
Students also take part in approximately 30 rotations in the hospitals in departments ranging from surgery to outpatient care and even facility operations. In the past, students have witnessed and taken part in cesarean sections, hysterectomies, care for stroke patients, emergency room operations and more.
New Visions: Health Careers classrooms are located at Ellis Hospital in Schenectady and at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany.
Classes meet daily from 8 to 11:30 a.m., and students are transported to the program by their home school districts.
Guilderland High School senior Andrew Altschule chose New Visions to prepare for a career as an anesthesiologist.
“I want to help people handle their pain. New Visions is positioning me in the direction I want to go, and it is giving me much more experience than you would get just sitting in a classroom,” he said.
Schenectady High School senior Maryam Ibrahim plans to be a trauma surgeon and chose New Visions to prepare for college and beyond.
“New Visions provides a more focused education. This is medically based, medically integrated,” she said.
Visit the New Visions: Health Careers – Capital Region BOCES page for information on the program.