Medical Explorers
A Healthcare Career Exploration Experience
The Medical Explorers program offers high school juniors and seniors a unique 7-week experience to explore healthcare careers. Each week, students will visit two different hospital departments, observing professionals in action and learning what it's really like to work in the medical field. This job shadowing opportunity with Corewell Health is designed to ignite interest in healthcare and provide valuable insights into a wide range of medical careers.
Medical Explorers will provide the students the opportunity to:
- Meet a wide variety of health care professionals and get a behind-the-scenes look at Corewell Health departments
- Ask questions and get the "inside scoop" directly from industry professionals
- Earn a Certificate of Completion to enhance scholarship/college applications and resumes
- Gain valuable insights about their own interests, values and personality
- Practice time management, interpersonal communication, networking and critical thinking skills
- Clarify their own career goals and develop next steps
Applications are no longer being accepted for the February/March 2025 sessions. All applicants will be notified of their status by December 15, 2024.
Interested in additional ways to learn about careers in healthcare? Check out our Career Chats archive and select "Health Science" under the Career Pathway dropdown and click "Update". This collection of 30-minute career conversations is a great resource for students to learn about the career journey of local healthcare professionals, their daily work and valuable industry insights.
Details
Dates: Tuesdays, February 4 - March 18, 2025
3:30 - 6 p.m.
Location: Corewell Health, 100 Michigan Ave. NE, Grand Rapids MI. Free parking will be provided.
- Pediatric Rehabilitation
- Labor and Delivery
- Adult Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Cardiac Care
- Ortho Trauma
- Environmental Services
- Nutrition Services
- Neurology
- Sterile Processing