By: Christopher Juarez
Photos by Destiny De La Rosa
William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital at UT Southwestern Medical District offers a volunteering program directly involved with the Skyline’s very own science cluster. The main focus of this program is to give the students an experience that lets them determine the type of path that they want to take as well as improving their work ethic and social skills with patients all around the campus.
The students learn the importance of patient care and how to provide for those patients. Students are placed into different departments every six weeks to get a bit of everything of what UT has to offer for them. They go every A day during their 3rd and 4th instructional periods.
As part of the program, the students also earn community service hours and at the end of the school year.
On Friday October 26th the students got their BLS (Basic Life Support) certification at Skyline. This certificate will allow them to branch out into a diversity of other jobs in their department.
The program was originally intended to give students the experience that lets them determine the type of path that they want to take after high school. It exposes them to the reality of the medical field that most people didn’t know about. This program is set to expand into more facilities, branching at from just hospitals, to animal shelters, nursing homes, ambulatory surgical centers, clinics and other facilities.
All the technology and the “set skills that they used in radiology has made me know that I definitely want to go into that type of field,” said Samantha Silos, a science cluster student in the program.
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