ADVISORY/450 Greater Boston High School Students to Learn First-Hand about Careers in Healthcare.News Editors/Business Editors/Assignment Desks/Health/Medical Writers/Education Writers ADVISORY...for Wednesday (Dec. 10) BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 2003 Event at Bayside bay·side adj. Situated very close to or on the shore of a bay: bayside cottages. Expo Center in Boston to Expose Students to Various Healthcare Opportunities With the healthcare industry in Boston and across the nation facing critical staffing shortages, BostonWorks has teamed up with the Massachusetts Department of Education to create Massachusetts Healthcare Career Day, designed to expose high school students to the variety of careers available in the healthcare industry. On Wednesday, December 10, the Executive Conference Center at the Bayside Expo Center will be transformed into a model hospital. Some 450 high school students from the Greater Boston Greater Boston is the area of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts surrounding the city of Boston, Massachusetts. While Metro Boston tends to be the "Inner Core" surrounding the City of Boston, Greater Boston overlaps the North and South Shores, as well as the MetroWest region. area will come to the Bayside to learn about a variety of career opportunities in the healthcare field. The event will run from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The event will feature a simulated car accident with a crashed vehicle supplied by the Boston Police Department The Boston Police Department (BPD) has the primary responsibility for law enforcement and investigation within the city of Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th largest department in the United States and is arguably the oldest police department in the country. . North Attleboro North Attleboro (ă`təlbərə), industrial town (1990 pop. 25,038), Bristol co., SE Mass., near the R.I. line; settled 1669, set off from Attleboro and inc. 1887. Jewelry has been made there since 1807. Drug Abuse Resistance Education  The neutrality and factual accuracy of this article are disputed.Please see the relevant discussion on the . This article has been tagged since September 2007. (D.A.R.E.) students will be acting as the crash victims. As the acting victims are evaluated, admitted and begin to receive care, the high school students will follow them through every step of their hospital experience. The students will accompany the victims through different departments including Emergency, Operating, Radiology radiology, branch of medicine specializing in the use of X rays, gamma rays, radioactive isotopes, and other forms of radiation in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. , Psychiatry, Physical Therapy and more. Major healthcare facilities in Boston will be participating in the program including Brigham and Women's, Children's Hospital A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties. , Hebrew Rehabilitation rehabilitation: see physical therapy. Center, Lahey Clinic The Lahey Clinic is a not-for-profit teaching hospital in Burlington, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1923 by Dr. Frank H. Lahey. History When Dr. Frank Howard Lahey founded a group practice in 1923, his plan was to create a clinic where many specialties would coexist , Massachusetts General, McLean Hospital McLean Hospital (pronounced 'Mc-Lane') is a psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, USA. It is noted for its clinical staff expertise and ground-breaking neuroscience research. , Spaulding Rehabilitation and Tufts/New England Medical Center. Each healthcare organization has provided the staff and equipment to set up the departments to resemble an actual hospital. The case study is interactive and the students will be asking questions as they observe healthcare professionals performing their daily work. There will be spokespeople available from the Department of Education, the Massachusetts Hospital Association and the individual healthcare organizations. The goal is to expose high school students to a range of different types of opportunities available in the healthcare industry and encourage them to explore their interest in the healthcare area.
Event: Massachusetts Healthcare Career Day
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 8:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Location: The Executive Conference Center, Bayside Expo Center
200 Mount Vernon Street, Columbia Point in Dorchester
Visuals: 450 high school students; simulated car crash and
accompanying hospital experience; numerous rooms set up to
replicate the different departments of a hospital;
students asking questions and learning about careers in
the healthcare industry as they follow professional
healthcare providers.
About BostonWorks: BostonWorks, a division of The Boston Globe, is the leading recruitment services provider in Greater Boston. Combining the power of The Boston Globe and Boston.com, BostonWorks reaches an audience of more than 2.4 million each week. In addition to the Sunday Globe's BostonWorks section, the division offers BostonWorks.com with more than 19,000 job listings and 500,000 resumes; industry-specific magazines such as "On Call" for nurses and allied health professionals; JobSource, a weekly career publication with distribution of over 100,000; and 12 career fairs held in Greater Boston throughout the year. On the Net: http://www.bostonworks.com. |
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