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PMC in North Central Pa. gave students throughout the region an opportunity to explore myriad career paths within health care during its annual High School Career Expo at the Liberty Arena on Wednesday.
More than 200 high schoolers from Montgomery Area, Hughesville Area, Montoursville Area, Jersey Shore Area, Canton Area, St. John Neumann Regional Academy, Sullivan County Area, Loyalsock Township and Williamsport Area school districts attended the event, officials announced in a press release Friday.
"The event is meant to help high school students find a career pathway in the health care industry, either clinical or non-clinical," the release said.
The students visited with and learned from dozens of departments, including Susquehanna Regional EMS (SREMS), UPMC Rehabilitation Institute, Family Medicine Residency, Heart and Vascular Institute, Senior Communities, Food and Nutrition and more, according to the press release.
The students learned skills like CPR, how to read an EKG and how to care for an individual with a trach tube, the news release said. They were able to gain hands-on experience with medical devices and even participated in a mock cardiac arrest led by SREMS.