2024 Outreach Learning Series: Engaging High School Students in Injury & Violence Prevention Careers

2024 Outreach Learning Series: Engaging High School Students in Injury & Violence Prevention Careers

By: Alexandra de Leon Date: January 22nd, 2024

The HIPRC held its third annual “Outreach Learning Series: Engaging High School Students in Injury & Violence Prevention Careers.” Supported by the HIPRC Outreach Core, the event hosted about forty 11th-12th grade students and teachers from Rainier Beach and Franklin High School.

The event, held at the Harborview Research & Training Building Auditorium, had various hands-on stations set up for students to learn about different careers.

Activities Included:

  • A 9-1-1 call demo, wound care demo & medic truck tour (put on by a King County Medic One)
  • How to read scans and work as a team in the Emergency Room (demonstrated by Student National Medical Association at UW-UW SNMA, UW Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, and UW Emergency Medicine)
  • How the operating team works together to intubate patients, how patients’ vitals are monitored, and a discussion of what happens in the operating room (demonstrated by UW Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine)
  • How the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) team works together and CPR Demonstration (demonstrated by Seattle Children’s Respiratory Care Team, Seattle Children’s PICU Nursing Team, + UW SNMA
  • Adaptive technology and rehab steps for inpatients and outpatients (Demonstrated by UW Rehab Medicine)

Students were presented with a mock, crisis scenario and were taught the steps taken at a hospital and trauma center to rehabilitate a gunshot wound patient. The focus of this Learning Series Event was to teach high schoolers about careers in medicine, while giving them a hands-on learning experience.

The events and activities throughout the event, provided a particular focus to careers that students might encounter at a Level 1 Trauma Center and with an injury and violence prevention lens.