Students at two Oklahoma public schools are exploring health care careers with the financial support of their local hospitals. Duncan (OK) Regional Hospital and Lawton's Comanche County Memorial Hospital have partnered with the Oklahoma Health Care Workforce Center to sponsor "HealthExplore" at the two schools. The program allows students to explore health care topics and talk to health care professionals.
The hospitals cover the bulk of the program's costs and donate scrub tops for the students to wear as they participate in activities. HealthExplore operates through a partnership between the workforce center and Mad Science of Central Oklahoma, a provider of science-based activities for children. For more information, visit
www.ohcwc.com.
In a HealthExplore class earlier this month, MacArthur Middle School students in Lawton studied the harmful use of smoking on the respiratory and circulatory system and simulated the effects of smoking on the respiratory system.
