High school students planning for a career in medicine and seeking an in-depth, honors-level program for their senior year that prepares them for such are encouraged to attend a Jan. 24 open house.
The New Visions: Health Careers program open house will begin at 9 a.m. at the Capital Region BOCES Administrative Office Building, located at 900 Watervliet-Shaker Road in Albany. The event is being held in the Schoharie Conference Room. New Visions: Health Careers is a one-year, honors-level program that turns area hospitals into classrooms for highly motivated, academically successful high school seniors.
In the program, students from across the region learn through traditional methods (lecture, reading, research, writing and focused study), group discussions, internships and rotations.
Students also take part in approximately 30 rotations in the hospitals in departments ranging from surgery to outpatient care and even facility operations. In the past, students have witnessed and taken part in cesarean sections, hysterectomies, care for stroke patients, emergency room operations and more. New Visions: Health Careers classrooms are located at Bellevue Woman’s Center in Niskayuna and at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany.
Classes meet daily in the morning and students are transported to the program by their home school districts.
Guilderland High School Class of 2024 graduate Andrew Altschule chose New Visions to prepare for a career as an anesthesiologist.
“I want to help people handle their pain. New Visions is positioning me in the direction I want to go, and it is giving me much more experience than you would get just sitting in a classroom,” he said.
Mohonasen High School senior Mia Paniccia said the program is giving her the experience she needs to “get into the medical field and be a pediatrician.” “When I was younger, I was in an out of the children’s hospital and those experiences inspired me to do something for other kids,” she said. Visit the New Visions: Health Careers – Capital Region BOCES page for information on the program.