Approximately 150 students from 11 Philadelphia high schools attended the District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund’s Health Career Fair, an annual career exploration event at the Training Fund’s Breslin Learning Center in Center City Philadelphia.
The 2014 Health Career Fair featured 25 healthcare and human service professionals from across the Greater Philadelphia region, whose generous donations of time and expertise helped make the Fair a success. Speakers at this year’s event included nurses, midwives, physical therapists, social workers, dentists, hospital system and insurance company administrators, behavioral health specialists, and others. Dr Walter Tsou, MD, MPH, delivered an inspiring and informative keynote address; Dr Tsou, a public health and healthcare reform consultant as well as a visiting faulty member at the University of Pennsylvania, is a former Philadelphia Health Commissioner and American Public Health Association President.
This range of speakers helped student attendees at the Career Fair widen their perceptions of what it means to work in the local healthcare sector, and begin to grasp the huge range of employment opportunities open to students with almost any set of skills, interests and aptitudes.
In addition to ten Career Panels, the Fair included interactive occupational health-and-safety training led by peer trainers from Lincoln High School. Four Lincoln students, who received their training through an OSHA-funded worker education program operated by the Training Fund, led their peers through hands-on, interactive educational presentations on disease transmission/prevention, dealing with hazards in the workplace, and other important occupational safety and health topics.
The 2014 Health Career Fair featured 25 healthcare and human service professionals from across the Greater Philadelphia region, whose generous donations of time and expertise helped make the Fair a success. Speakers at this year’s event included nurses, midwives, physical therapists, social workers, dentists, hospital system and insurance company administrators, behavioral health specialists, and others. Dr Walter Tsou, MD, MPH, delivered an inspiring and informative keynote address; Dr Tsou, a public health and healthcare reform consultant as well as a visiting faulty member at the University of Pennsylvania, is a former Philadelphia Health Commissioner and American Public Health Association President.
This range of speakers helped student attendees at the Career Fair widen their perceptions of what it means to work in the local healthcare sector, and begin to grasp the huge range of employment opportunities open to students with almost any set of skills, interests and aptitudes.
In addition to ten Career Panels, the Fair included interactive occupational health-and-safety training led by peer trainers from Lincoln High School. Four Lincoln students, who received their training through an OSHA-funded worker education program operated by the Training Fund, led their peers through hands-on, interactive educational presentations on disease transmission/prevention, dealing with hazards in the workplace, and other important occupational safety and health topics.
