The Allied Health Tech Prep program in Niagara County Provides a unique and wonderful learning opportunity to many high school students interest in health related careers. The program is taught right in the local hospital environment. The program is open to both juniors and senior, but student selection is based on a careful screening process by school counselors.
Students take the class five days a week and leave the school campus for the course.
There is of course only one faculty member teaching at each site as well. Besides the regular curriculum that has been developed by community college faculty and secondary instructors, the program provides a rich opportunity for experiential learning during normal business hours at the hospital. During the course, students have the opportunity to shadow a career interest from surgery to pharmacy, nursing to speech pathology with a practicing professional. Once the shadowing experience ends, students have the opportunity to intern with a professional for ten weeks during the course of the year. Scheduling the time to complete the experience with the career mentor can take place after school, weekends, or during class time when instruction is not taking place.