High schoolers in Southern Colorado now have a unique learning opportunity with Children’s Hospital of Southern Colorado.
It is called MC 2 which is short for Medical Career Collaborative.
London Geditz, a junior at Lewis Palmer High School, just got her MC 2 uniform.
“There’s more than I thought I would be able to do in the program. It’s 50% hands-on. That’s like their goal. And then like, 50% of just like doing other work around the hospital.”
Geditz, who likes biology class, is in the inaugural group of high school hospital interns in Colorado Springs.
“I’m going to be shadowing a doctor in the med/surg area,” Geditz said. “If I want on [my] days off, I can go to another area, so I could shadow a surgery.”
The education opportunity provided by the hospital is also an investment in future medical workers.
The program started in Denver and just expanded to Southern Colorado.
“A physician that’s started back at our Denver emergency department who was part of the program over 10 years ago, she’s come back. and she’s also, you know, helped sponsor our future students,” Arnold Butiu, a vice president with Children’s Hospital Southern Region, said.