Health Science
Each year, students are required to take an Health Science Technology (HST) class, which serve as the principle magnet program for the school. The course selection includes:
- 9th grade- A full year course on Medical terminology and ethics
- 10th grade- A full year course on anatomy
- 11th grade- 2 month programs rotating around sports medicine, dentistry, clinical rotations, and medical laboratory, through which students gain hands-on experience with activities such as performing reflex tests, making mouth molds through plaster, and performing urine and blood specimen exams. This class is 2 periods long.
- 12th grade- 2 month program rotating around biomedical-engineering and world health, physiology, and preceptorship. The preceptorship program revolves around 3 sets of 6 day shadowing opportunities around the Texas Medical Center, with programs such as research at Rice University, neurology at the Veteran's Affair Hospital, nutritional research at the Children's Hospital, and a look into the Houston Veterinarian Society. This class is 2 periods long.
Students ultimately interact and are able to learn first-hand from physicians and surgeons who work at various institutions of the Texas Medical Center. They frequently witness live surgeries there and attend seminars, making the learning experience quite unlike courses offered at other public schools in HISD.
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