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Looking forward to 2012, there is cautious optimism that the economy -- and the job market -- will continue to improve. If you're a job seeker, consider exploring a career in one of these nine occupations, all of which are expected to grow in 2012. (Four of the nine occupations are healthcare related).

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Monday, December 19, 2011

The South Carolina Hospital Association along with the South Carolina Department of Education, Office of Career and Technology Education (Health Science Education) have partnered with Microburst Learning to expand recruitment efforts beyond adult audiences to create greater awareness among students in middle and high schools about the need for trained health professionals to work in hospitals and clinics.

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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Mapping DNA, exploring human medicine, dissecting organs, analyzing bone features, sounds like a class in medical school, but students at Ashley Ridge High School are doing just that, and they're getting a big head start.

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Tuesday, December 06, 2011

The Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education, the Oklahoma State Department of Health and Kiamichi Technology Center partnered to create this mobile unit for training and emergency response to be used throughout the state.

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Monday, November 28, 2011

The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce has released a new report in collaboration with the National Research Center for Career and the Technical Education and the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium.

The report, Career Clusters: Forecasting Demand for High School Through College Jobs, 2008-2018, identifies 16 career clusters that represent the full array of related occupational opportunities and education requirements.

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Friday, November 18, 2011

Who is really responsible for the challenges of financing a college degree and in particular, a health sciences education? The simple answer is that ultimately you are, but the good news is that you should have a lot of help along the way.

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Thursday, November 17, 2011

The American Dental Education Association (ADEA), Division of Educational Pathways is excited to announce the launch of GoDentalSM, a new career building and social networking site.

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Monday, September 26, 2011

In an opinion piece for U.S. News & World Report, Deirdre Connelly, president of North American Pharmaceuticals at GlaxoSmithKline, writes that "the skills derived from STEM education are the mission critical elements of the jobs of tomorrow.

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Friday, September 09, 2011

A recent posting on the Educate to Innovate with STEM blog detailed the seven skills students need for their future, which is based on Dr. Tony Wagner's, co-director of Harvard University's Change Leadership Group, presentation on the "global achievement gap." What are these seven skills? Not surprisingly, many of them are incorporated in the PLTW curriculum.

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Tuesday, September 06, 2011

HOSA and the Office of the Civilian Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps Select 2011 Office of the Surgeon General HOSA Interns:
Aakash Patel, International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma graduate of South Forsyth High School in Suwanee, GA and National Consortium for Health Science Education HOSA scholarship winner selected.

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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Calling all STEM education innovators.

The deadline is just four weeks away for an online competition that aims to identify, and reward, promising ideas to engage STEM experts from various fields—whether health care, technology, pharmaceuticals, academia, banking, and so on—with high-need public schools.

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Common Core Literacy Standards

On Friday, March 4, 2011 a memo titled Kindergarten Common Core State Standards Implementation and Grades 1-12 Update was sent to Superintendents and Principals. In this memo it states “ALL” teachers will begin teaching the Common Core Literacy Standards for...

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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Utah recently completed the 6th year of their Virtual Healthcare Interactive Program.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

On January 27, HOSA was honored to co-present in a webinar titled: Engaging Youth in Public Health Preparedness and Response. The webinar was hosted by the Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) with the emergency communication system at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CAPT Robert Tosatto, Office of the Civilian Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps, and Dr. Jim Koeninger, HOSA-Future Health Professionals, were co-presenters.

COCA is designed to provide two-way communication between clinicians and the CDC about emerging health threats, such as pandemics, natural disasters and terrorism. COCA serves a wide variety of clinicians, including: physicians, nurses, pharmacists, paramedics, veterinarians, epidemiologists, public health practitioners, hospital associations, and state and local health department officials. COCA partners with 176 professional organizations allowing for outreach opportunities.

HOSA has been officially designated as one of COCA's partners and can be found on their website at: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/coca.

If you go to the COCA Partner list (http://www.bt.cdc.gov/coca/members.asp), you will find an impressive list of partners.

Click link below for a copy of the transcript of the webinar.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

A positioning statement from The Joint Commission on the state of the home care industry

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Since 1988, the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) has conducted its Wage and Vacancy Survey to provide the most recent wage data and determine the extent and distribution of shortages within the nation’s clinical laboratory workforce.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

The current U.S. education system is failing to prepare millions of young adults for successful careers by providing a one-size-fits-all approach, and it should take a cue from its European counterparts by offering greater emphasis on occupational instruction, a Harvard University study published Wednesday concludes.

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Friday, February 11, 2011

The idea behind the unusual health sciences magnet program, set to start next fall at Osseo High School, is to plug into the growing job market.
By NORMAN DRAPER, Star Tribune

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Thursday, January 06, 2011

Throughout her career, Rhonda Hoyman has acquired a long list of accomplishments and has positively impacted her local community. With over 32 years of supervisory, technical, career, and special needs educational experience at the state, county, and school-based levels, she has gone above and beyond one lifetime’s worth of achievements.

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Monday, January 03, 2011

It's the best of times, worst of times for healthcare jobs.

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Friday, October 29, 2010

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Thursday, October 28, 2010

The American Medical Association's handy chart of salary ranges has been updated. See how your field (or the field you'd like to enter) compares to others.

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Friday, August 13, 2010

Thousands of schools and students across the nation participated in the national health science assessment program. At the close of this testing year, 13,370 National Healthcare Foundation Skills Assessment post-tests were administered nationwide.

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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

(U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Winter 2009–10; A Special Issue)

In almost anything you do, you’re more likely to succeed if you have a plan. Deciding on a career is no exception.

If you’re making a decision about education, training, or a career—or if you are helping someone else who is making such decisions—you need to know how the
labor market is expected to unfold in the future. How many jobs are likely to be available in the career you want? How much will they pay? What kind of training will you need?

Projections and related information from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) provide the answers to these questions. In a changing economy, these projections help you to glimpse the future—and to plan for it.

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Thursday, June 17, 2010

In the June issue of the Health Care Careers e-Letter , we asked, "To help college freshmen get a jump on their health care education, what should the model curriculum of a high school health science look like?

What content should be included? What are the current gaps in learning that need to be addressed?" (These questions were also disseminated to members of the listserve of the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions [NAAHP].)

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Friday, May 21, 2010

NCHSE has a new CD.
Partnerships: Classroom, Healthcare and Community
A health science career cluster must include both education and partners working together to provide quality learning experiences for students. This new CD will help develop and design workplace learning experiences for students. Content is in 3 sections (1) Workplace Learning Preparation and Guidelines (2) Career Exploration and Assessment and (3) Service Learning. All forms can be customized by the users.

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Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Investment in Health Science Education

At a time when funding and resources are compromised, the National Consortium for Health Science Education (NCHSE) is committed to pushing forward to support and strengthen health science education nationwide. In partnership with CreativEd Services, the National Consortium for Health Science Education is pleased to announce the launch of Health Science Instructional Supplements to support health science teachers in the alignment of classroom instruction to the National Healthcare Foundation Standards.

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

It took a two-day strategic planning session, followed by committee and board discussions, and a minimum of six weeks of conference calls, to work through the list of possible name changes for the National Consortium on Health Science and Technology Education (NCHSTE)! In January 2009 at the NCHSTE annual meeting, the board voted to drop “and” from the consortium’s official name. In April 2009, the culminating event occurred with a unanimous electronic vote of the board membership to change the name of this organization to the National Consortium for Health Science Education (NCHSE).

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Tuesday, January 20, 2009