July 18—School of Nursing professors host high school students for job shadowing
Jann Murray-Garcia, an adjunct professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis, hosted a small group of students for a job shadowing experience at UC Davis Health. The students, who attend Grant, McClatchy and Valley Hi high schools in Sacramento, explored how high-fidelity mannequins come to life in a simulation suite at the Center for Virtual Care in the Center for Health and Technology. They also observed family nurse practitioner and physician assistant students in small group discussions and sat in while medical students learned inner-ear anatomy on the UC Davis Sacramento campus. As part of a the Minority Health Professions Mentors Program of the Yes2Kollege Education Resources, Inc., students are exposed to health professions by experiencing practitioners’ actual work places.

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