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Discover Healthcare Careers Mobile Unit

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Experience what it's really like to work in high-wage, high-demand healthcare jobs and fast-track your path to a healthcare career! M State and Central Lakes College (CLC) are offering a mobile unit where you can experience healthcare work through hands-on activities and learn more about this fast-growing field. 

Hands-on experience in healthcare

While trying out simulated medical procedures required in real healthcare settings in the mobile unit, you can get answers to healthcare questions and learn more about related degree programs at M State and CLC - whether you're in high school or are an adult seeking career advancement or a new or second career.

Partnership and funding

Central Lakes CollegePathways 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. Focus will be on high school juniors and seniors, as well as displaced workers and underemployed people in rural communities. M State and CLC 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.

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Explore being a healthcare provider
 The Discover Healthcare Careers mobile unit offers interactive, simulated hands-on healthcare activities where you can:
  • Learn how to inject medication
  • Help a choking victim
  • Perform CPR with real-time feedback
  • Palpate pulses
  • Draw simulated blood
  • Listen to heart and lung sounds
  • Take a blood pressure or pulse oximetry reading
  • Take care of a simulated patient through virtual reality
  • Staple a wound shut
  • Care for a patient's teeth
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M State Healthcare Programs
Phlebotomy Technician 2024
Central Lakes College Healthcare Programs

Invite the mobile unit to your school, organization or event

At no cost to you, M State and CLC employees will lead activities in the mobile unit for your organization's students, members or communities who are seeking career information, career advancement or a second career in healthcare.

  • Activities can take place inside or just outside the mobile unit
  • Activities can be brought into a classroom setting
  • Participants are free to choose which hands-on activities they'd like to try

Service area

The mobile unit is available year-round to travel to locations within a service area of more than 10,000 square miles in northwest and central Minnesota, including the Fargo-Moorhead metro area and Otter Tail, Becker, Clay, Wilkin, Wadena, Crow Wing, Todd, Cass, Morrison, Aitkin and Mille Lacs counties.

If you're located outside the service area, please contact a health careers outreach specialist below for options.

Questions?

To learn where the mobile unit will stop next, host the unit at your site, and get answers and assistance, please contact either college:

Contact M State

Toni Thorp, health careers outreach specialist

Mobile unit service area: Becker, Clay, Otter Tail, Wadena and Wilkin counties

Contact CLC

Jen Chock, health careers outreach specialist

Mobile unit service area: Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Mille Lacs, Morrison and Todd counties