Wednesday, August 5, 2015

On Planning Ahead

I was told today "You know that it's summer holidays right?" as I booked a field trip for one of my classes this year.

Which brings me to what I was doing today, laying out my Intermediate/Advanced Medical Studies Outline for the year.

The last bit is unfinished and I will likely need a few days of thinking about it to decide which credits I want to teach this time around.

Also, I get a set of damaged Roombas tomorrow. I will be posting my initial thoughts when I receive them.



Medical Studies Intermediate/Advanced Outline (WIP)


“Your body, your health, your career”


This course will be offered for those interested in a Healthcare career. It will be organized into the three themes above:


Your body: This course will act as an introduction to anatomy and physiology of the human body. This is also covered in Biology 20 and 30, but this course will seek to deepen students’ knowledge of these topics especially in how the apply to the human body.


Your health: The second theme of this course will focus on personal health and the choices that individuals can make to improve their own health and well-being. This will include personal studies into each student's health and interventions that can have a lasting impact on it.


Your career: There are a multitude of careers in medicine that students never consider. Many enter the area of healthcare assuming that it is only doctors and nurses, not knowing that the profession also includes paramedics, radiology technicians, occupational therapists to name just a few. This course aims to expose students to these other career paths as well as to shed light on the path to doing any profession in healthcare.


Credits offered:
CCS 1030: Caring for Body Systems 1
HCS 2020: First Aid/CPC C with AED
HCS 3050: Reproduction and Readiness For Parenting
HCS 3060: Pregnancy,Birth and Infant Care
HCS 2910: HCS Project B OR HCS 3910: HCS Project D


CCS 1030: Caring for Body Systems 1
In this unit, students will review concepts in Medical Studies that will assist them in the remainder of the course. This course will also be used as the foundational content knowledge for our semester-long project “The You Study.”


HCS 2020: First Aid/CPC C with AED
During this credit, an outside instructor will be welcomed to our class to certify all of the students in the class in Standard First Aid and CPR. This certification is recognized across Canada and is something that can be used on students’ resumes and professionally. The certification lasts for three years at which point individuals can re-certify with a short 8-hour course rather than this full 16 hour course.
Cost: $85 (This course costs $135 on average to take elsewhere)


HCS 2910: HCS Project B OR HCS 3910: HCS Project D
To earn this credit, students must successfully complete a semester-long project known as “The You Study” that will challenge them to study themselves physiologically before making a major change to their behaviour, lifestyle, or diet and measuring the results. They must carry out the study and then must present the results during the final week of the semester.


HCS 2120: Pain and Pain Management
HCS 3050: Reproduction and Readiness For Parenting
HCS 3060: Pregnancy,Birth and Infant Care
Two of the following three credits will be covered in the course. I received overwhelming support for doing a unit on pregnancy and childcare in my end-of-year survey last year and this is where the 3000 level courses come in. The 2120 course is appealing to me because I am planning to take this group on a field trip to Telus Spark’s Direct from the Operating Room Program.

These will be updated as I make a decision on what to do about them.

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