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LITTLE ROCK - "Here, I am in
the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) at UAMS, and I love my
job," Valerie Beck, R.N., tells high school students in a new
career recruitment video for Cabot High School.
Health care professionals at UAMS
Medical Center are the stars in the video, designed to interest
ninth-graders in Cabot, Ark., in health careers and a new
"career academy" at Cabot High School.
School administrators will show the
video to about 700 Cabot freshmen this spring to encourage them to
apply for the school's new Medical Academy, which will open in the
fall.
MACH 1 Academy, as it will be known, will be one of 10 career
academies that the Arkansas Department of Education will sponsor
next year with start-up grants of $20,000. The first five learning
academies opened in the state this year. Cabot chose health care
for its field of focus.
"We surveyed students, we surveyed teachers, and we looked at
job projection data in central Arkansas through the year 2008, and
our steering committee chose health professions," Cabot
Assistant Principal Randy Granderson, M.Ed., said.
Cabot faculty will teach the core subjects of math, English,
science, and social studies in the context of health careers.
Examples and problems will be related to real world situations in
a clinical setting. Academy students will remain in the program
throughout 10th, 11th, and 12th grade.
Granderson and Mike Calvert, an Instructor at Cabot High School,
videotaped interviews in the UAMS Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
with Valerie Beck, RN, and Betty Burton, RRT; in the Respiratory
Care Unit with James Hammons, RRT; in the Hematology Clinic with
Kathy Hatcher, MT; in diagnostic sonagraphy with Dawna Jones, RDMS,
and in the Emergency Department with Charge Nurse Colleen Jordan,
RN.
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Mike Calvert of Cabot High School interviewed Valerie Beck, R.N., at UAMS Medical Center for a video
about health care professions. (UAMS) Click on image for
print-quality resolution.
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