Med Tech

Semester Credit: .5 Grade Level: 9-10    

This course is designed to give students with an interest in pursuing a medical or health-related career overview of the numerous health occupations. In addition to providing an introduction to the various health professions, students will learn occupational skills needed for those professions. The students will gather information about selected healthcare careers through participation in a series of hands-on projects. A broad concept of how health care is organized and delivered will be studied. Students will explore developing their own necessary abilities to assure success in the medical field. Building professional attitudes, ethical behavior, and communication skills are a few of the areas that will be discussed

Year Credit: 1 Grade Level: 9-12    

The Integrated Behavioral and Mental Health course is designed to equip high school students with the knowledge, skills, and strategies to understand, prioritize, and maintain mental health and behavior. In this course, students will explore the concepts of mental health, resilience, and emotional intelligence while actively challenging the stigma surrounding mental health issues. Students will identify contemporary behavioral health theories related to psychiatric disorders and mental diseases. Students will differentiate between stress, anxiety, and crisis to identify methods to maintain mental health, including problem-solving techniques, treatment, and intervention strategies. Students will assess, plan, implement, and evaluate needs of the client as it pertains to trauma informed care, crisis intervention, or substance abuse. Additionally, students will use therapeutic communication techniques, discuss documentation guidelines and plan of care with the patient.  Through interactive discussions, activities, and real-world applications, students will explore behavior and mental health impacts on the world around them with connections to career pathways. This course aims to empower students to make informed decisions, foster healthy relationships, and seek help when needed, ultimately contributing to a more mentally healthy and compassionate school community.

Year Credit: 1 Grade Level: 11 Est Fee: Not to exceed $10   

Year Credit: 1 Grade Level: 11    

This course explores the root words, suffixes and prefixes of the vocabulary used in medical offices, hospitals and other health settings. Students review the nervous, skeletal, cardiovascular, muscle and other major systems of the human body, and they discuss terms related to physiology, anatomy and pathological conditions. Students learn to spell, define and pronounce common medical terms. 3 College Credits  

Year Credit: 1 Grade Level: 11    

Students will be trained as emergency responders and instructed in basic management of emergency medical/pre-hospital care of the sick and injured. Emergency responders are trained to reach patients, find out what is wrong and provide emergency care. Students will receive the following certificates: American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS), CPR/AED and First Aid. Also covered: preventing disease transmission, diseases and disorders, ethics, communications, and vital signs. “Real-world” experience will be acquired through professional guest speakers, health care field trips and victim/patient care skills. All Med Tech students are required to take Anatomy & Physiology which will be automatically scheduled upon enrollment in this program.  

Year Credit: 1 Grade Level: 11    

Honors students will have additional assignments related to pathophysiology, infection control, and case studies. Assignments will involve an understanding of both normal and abnormal body processes, critical thinking skills, and application skills. Students will be assigned to research patient case histories, current news reports, and pathology, and they will complete more complex writing assignments and deliver presentations. Students will work in collaboration with the instructor to become a master of specific topics to instruct their peers and individuals in our community. Students must demonstrate leadership inside and outside the classroom through HOSA (Health Occupation Skills of America), the classroom personnel system, and community service projects. Additional assignments, in-class experiences, and out of class experiences will be expected of the students who select honors.

Year Credit: 2 Grade Level: 12   Est Fee: Not to exceed $10

Year Credit: 2 Grade Level: 12    

Med Tech II will help shape your future in the dynamic field of health care by exploring various professional health career options. You will gain knowledge in the Career Pathways of Medicine, physical therapy/sports medicine, nursing, pharmacy, laboratory, diagnostic services

Year Credit: 2 Grade Level: 12    

Students will learn medical skills in the lab that are required to meet patients' needs such as: safety and infection control, body mechanics, patient mobility, vital signs, phlebotomy, electrocardiography, nutrition, basic lab procedures, wound care and sterile technique. Students meeting all requirements will be eligible to take part in Patient Care Clinical at Toledo Hospital and the State of Ohio Nurse Assisting Testing (STNA). This will prepare you for college and or immediate employment in the health care field.

Year Credit: 2 Grade Level: 12    

In this course, students will identify the causes, processes, and changes in body organs and tissues that occur with human illness. Topics include identification of clinical characteristics and effects of diseases, mechanisms causing alterations in cellular activity, maintenance of cellular tissue oxygenation, fluid and electrolyte balance, neuroendocrine control of the body, and diagnostic methodology. Students will interpret and use clinical data and patient health history to assemble a comprehensive health assessment.

Year Credit: 2 Grade Level: 12    

The capstone course provides opportunities for students to apply knowledge, attitudes and skills in a more comprehensive and authentic way. Capstones include project/problem based learning opportunities that occur both in and away from school. Under supervision of the school and through community partnerships, students may combine classroom learning with work experience. This course can be delivered through a variety of delivery methods including 50+ hours of shadowing, Health Occupation Students of America (HOSA) professional club membership, The Senior Project, community service projects, HOSA competition and travel.

Year Credit: 2 Grade Level: 12    

This course will cover similar material as Medical Technology II, but students will complete additional writings and presentations in anatomy/physiology/pathophysiology, medical mathematics, patient case histories, medical terminology, and health care topics in the news. Students will be expected to take on leadership roles in the classroom personnel system, community service projects (including the blood drive) and the Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) professional organization.