Medical Sciences Academy

College Prep 

Course list D

Prerequisite: GPA of 2.50 or higher

This class is also available after school

10 credits

Learn how to take a patient's vital signs, including blood pressure, temperature, and heart rate. You'll learn about diverse medical and health occupations found in hospitals, community health centers, and clinics. You will study the roles and responsibilities of various health care providers. This class will prepare you for further study in health care professions. This class is a prerequisite for the following pathway courses:  Body Systems & Disorders, Dental Core, Emergency Medical Responder, Medical Assistant - Clinical & Administrative, Nursing Assistant - Long Term Care, Pharmacy Technology, and Sports Medicine & Therapy. Medical Careers trains students for entry-level occupations in the medical/health field and to standards required of workers in the field.  Students learn the ethical and legal responsibilities of the health care worker, safety, HIPAA, transmission based precautions, body mechanics, transporting duties, human anatomy and physiology, the normal function of body systems, advanced terminology, and vital signs.  Also included are health care delivery systems, regulatory agencies, research, current technology, and socio-economic issues affecting health care.  Students research career opportunities in therapeutic, diagnostic, and supportive areas.

College Prep 

Prerequisite: GPA of 2.50 or higher, C or better Medical Careers/UC approved Integ. Sci.

Course list D

10 credits

This class covers human anatomy and physiology, normal body system functions and diseases and disorders of those systems. You will study standards required of health workers, including ethical and legal responsibilities, safety, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) rules, infection control, body mechanics, transporting duties, and advanced terminology. You will learn about health care delivery systems, regulatory agencies, research, current technology, and socioeconomic issues affecting health care. Body Systems and Disorders trains students on human anatomy and physiology, normal function of body systems, and associated pathologies. Students learn advanced medical terminology as applied to diseases, disorders, and medical interventions.  The course includes in depth instruction on the respiratory, genitourinary, cardiovascular/ circulatory, immune, endocrine, gastrointestinal, nervous, and musculoskeletal systems. Study includes cell physiology, diseases and disorders, as well as health maintenance. This course articulates with local community colleges.

College Prep 

Prerequisite: GPA of 3.0 or higher, B or better in Body Systems & Disorders

2 per block

Course list D

10 credits

Students gain a variety of medical assisting skills including greeting clients and patients, taking vital signs, recording current medications, noting complaints and symptoms, and setting up patient exam rooms for specific types of examinations.  Learn how to recognize infection, assist physicians with physical exams and minor surgical procedures, perform laboratory procedures including blood withdrawal, urinalysis, and specimen collection, and assist with diagnostic procedures. This class prepares students for jobs as clinical, back-office medical assistants. Medical Assistant, Clinical and Administrative trains students to assist a physician, work in a laboratory or medical office.  Students learn medical and surgical asepsis; assisting the physician with physical examination of the patient and minor surgical procedures; electrocardiography; administration of medication by physician order; laboratory skills, to include blood withdrawal, urinalysis, and specimen collection; assisting with diagnostic procedures; nutrition; vital signs; introduction to basic anatomy and physiology and diseases commonly related to the medical office experience; medical terminology; and reinforcement of basic “prerequisite class” concepts.  Required clinical work-based learning hours are included.