Partnership allows Dodge City HS students to get early start in medical field

Dodge City High School is offering students the opportunity to get an early start in the medical field.
A partnership with Dodge City Community College and Dodge City High School allows the high-school students to become certified nurse assistants. When the program starts in the fall, two classrooms at Dodge City High School will be set up as labs and equipped with clinical equipment.
“There’s a great demand for certified nurses’ aides in our work area and so the demand in the work field has really prompted students to seek classes so they could become certified,” says Dodge City High School Associate Principal Mike Martinez. Dodge City Community College will provide equipment and instructors to come to the high school and teach the courses for the CNA program.
Students receive credit from the college and from the high school. They then take a test at the end of the course to become certified. This allows them to get their certificate and immediately go into the workforce.

So far, Dodge City High School says 47 students are signed up to enroll in the program.

(Read more: KWCH News)