On the road to a career in healthcare?
Explore your options with our Discover Healthcare Careers Mobile Unit
The Discover Healthcare Careers Mobile Unit travels to schools, employment centers and other organizations and events around the region to provide engaging, hands-on learning activities and spread the word about high-wage, high-demand careers available within the field of healthcare. The unit is made possible through a U.S. Department of Labor grant and a partnership between M State and Central Lakes College (CLC).
Whether you’re a high school student making decisions about your future or an adult seeking a new career or career advancement, the mobile unit offers opportunities to try your hand at real-world medical procedures, get answers to healthcare and career questions, and learn about related degree programs at M State and CLC.
Hands-on healthcare activities
- Draw blood. Practice venipuncture, a skill used by nurses, phlebotomists and many other healthcare professionals, on realistic patient models.
- Inject medicine. Administer injections into muscle tissue, and just beneath the skin’s surface, using lifelike tools and models.
- See germs glow. Use a special oil and UV light to reveal “glowing germs” on your hands and nearby surfaces to see for yourself why proper washing is so important.
- Staple skin. Close wounds with surgical staples in a realistic simulation experience.
- Take a 360° VR tour of the body. Adventure through a highly detailed 3D tour of the human body, using virtual reality to rotate around, interact with and dissect internal organs, tissues and systems.
- Make a 3D mouth model. Mix and pour dental plaster into molds to make 3D models of teeth and gums.
- Determine blood types. Learn lab techniques and the principles of blood compatibility.
- Perform CPR and other lifesaving techniques, palpate pulses, take a blood pressure reading, listen to heart and lung sounds and more!
M State healthcare programs
- Dental Assisting
- Dental Hygiene
- Health Information Technology/Coding
- Limited Scope Radiography
- Medical Coding
- Medical Laboratory Technology
- Nursing - Associate Degree
- Nursing - LPN to Associate Degree
- Nursing - Assistant
- Nursing - Practical
- Phlebotomy Technician
- Radiologic Technology
- Sonography-Echocardiography Technology
- Surgical Technology
Central Lakes College healthcare programs
Partnership and funding
Pathways to Accelerated Training in Healthcare in Minnesota received a four-year, $4.2 million U.S. Department of Labor Strengthening Community Colleges grant to provide healthcare career exploration activities to rural, underserved and historically underrepresented people and communities. The focus is on high school juniors and seniors as well as displaced workers and underemployed people in rural communities. M State and Central Lakes College have partnered to expand access to and information about career exploration and academic programs that lead to good-paying jobs in regional industries, especially healthcare.
