Subject code
JAN
Course Number
201
Course Title
Healthcare Exploration (1 Unit)
Modality
In-Person
Meeting Days
TTh
Meeting Time(s)
9:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Instructor(s)
Choy, Annie
Instructor(s) Email
hl4@stmarys-ca.edu
Prerequisites
None
Course Fee
TBA
Units
1
Course Description
NOTE: 1 Unit courses do not fulfill the Jan Term Requirement.
You're curious about science, medicine, or how the body works, but you don't know exactly why yet, or what that curiosity could turn into. Sometimes you don't know what you're interested in until you've actually experienced it.
This course is built around that idea. You'll investigate real emergency equipment and figure out what it's for. You'll try your hand at a simulated injury and see what it takes to treat one. You'll explore techniques for identifying a person from very little information.
Along the way, you'll earn a real, nationally recognized BLS certification, short for Basic Life Support, essentially a more advanced, healthcare provider-level version of standard CPR training. It's a credential often required on day one for many entry-level healthcare jobs, such as phlebotomist, dental assistant, medical assistant, and EMT, possibly one of the very roles you end up researching later in the course.
This course is for students who want to dabble and discover, not for those who have already committed to one specific path. It is aimed primarily at first-year students, but open to any student regardless of year or major.
No prior science background or declared major needed, and no prerequisites.
Eight sessions, each built around a different field and a real guest practitioner, not a lecture.
You'll also come away understanding the different kinds of experience healthcare-bound students eventually need to build toward their goals.
You're curious about science, medicine, or how the body works, but you don't know exactly why yet, or what that curiosity could turn into. Sometimes you don't know what you're interested in until you've actually experienced it.
This course is built around that idea. You'll investigate real emergency equipment and figure out what it's for. You'll try your hand at a simulated injury and see what it takes to treat one. You'll explore techniques for identifying a person from very little information.
Along the way, you'll earn a real, nationally recognized BLS certification, short for Basic Life Support, essentially a more advanced, healthcare provider-level version of standard CPR training. It's a credential often required on day one for many entry-level healthcare jobs, such as phlebotomist, dental assistant, medical assistant, and EMT, possibly one of the very roles you end up researching later in the course.
This course is for students who want to dabble and discover, not for those who have already committed to one specific path. It is aimed primarily at first-year students, but open to any student regardless of year or major.
No prior science background or declared major needed, and no prerequisites.
Eight sessions, each built around a different field and a real guest practitioner, not a lecture.
You'll also come away understanding the different kinds of experience healthcare-bound students eventually need to build toward their goals.