The Healthcare Pathway
This program is a three-year sequence that helps students explore careers in medicine and healthcare.
What is the Healthcare Pathway?
This organ acts as the body’s control center, sending messages through nerves.
What is the brain?
This word describes the body’s defense system that fights infections.
What is the immune system?
This instrument is commonly used by doctors to listen to a patient’s heart and lungs.
What is a stethoscope?
This scientist is known as the "Father of Modern Medicine" and wrote the Hippocratic Corpus.
Who is Hippocrates?
The first class in the Healthcare Pathway, where students learn the basics of medical careers and safety skills, is called this.
What is Introduction to Healthcare?
This part of the eye controls how much light enters.
What is the pupil?
This type of germ can’t survive on its own and needs a host cell to reproduce.
What is a virus/parasite?
This imaging technique uses magnetic fields and radio waves to produce detailed images of organs and tissues.
What is MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)?
In 1796, this physician developed the first successful smallpox vaccine.
Who is Edward Jenner?
In the final level of the pathway, students can earn certifications and participate in internships.
What is Allied Health and Medicine?
These protein molecules speed up chemical reactions in your body, such as digestion.
What are enzymes?
This type of shot helps protect you from diseases like measles and flu.
What is a vaccine?
A blood test that measures glucose levels over the past 2–3 months is called this.
What is an A1C test?
This epidemic killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide from 1918–1919.
What is the Spanish flu?
Students are chosen for the Healthcare Pathway using this fair selection method.
What is a lottery system?
This muscular structure separates the chest from the abdomen and helps you breathe.
What is the diaphragm?
This viral disease affects the liver and is often caused by sharing unclean needles or contaminated food.
What is hepatitis?
This minimally invasive procedure involves inserting a tube into a blood vessel to open blocked arteries in the heart.
What is angioplasty?
This surgeon performed the first successful human-to-human heart transplant in 1967.
Who is Christiaan Barnard?
This student organization connects directly with the Healthcare Pathway, allowing students to compete, volunteer, and build leadership skills.
What is HOSA Future Health Professionals?
This organ, weighing about three pounds in an average adult, uses roughly 20% of the body's oxygen and is divided into four main lobes.
What is the brain?
This bacterial infection, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, primarily affects the lungs but can also spread to other organs, and was historically called “consumption.”
What is tuberculosis?
This surgical procedure removes a patient’s appendix, often after it becomes inflamed.
What is an appendectomy?
In the 1800s, this method of sterilization using heat revolutionized surgery and reduced infections.
What is antiseptic technique?