CARLOW Center for Medical Innovation
Fostering Medical Excellence: La Salle College Preparatory empowers Students to pursue healthcare professions by launching a Medical Center.
The CARLOW Medical Center for Innovation allows aspiring future healthcare practitioners to pursue their passions and practice medicine in high school! With a generous one million dollar grant, our commitment to students and the community is limitless. The mission of the Medical Careers Pathway is designed to equip students with the academic prowess, social adeptness, and professional acumen necessary to succeed in higher education and the medical industry.
The Medical Center will be the first of its kind offered by a Catholic educational institution. It revolutionizes the learning experience by providing a tailored medical environment dependent on students' needs. This program embodies our dedication to cultivating a new generation of medical trailblazers.
Medical Careers Pathway Program
The CARLOW Center for Medical Innovation is open to students interested in various fields in healthcare. In the program, each student will gain valuable experience that will give them a foundation for higher education programs in Pre-Med, Biological and Medical Anthropology, Biochemistry, and Medical Engineering. Students enrolled in the pathway program at the Center for Medical Innovation will be given the opportunity to participate in community networking, career counseling, job shadowing, and student research in partnership with Shriners Hospital for Children® and other local organizations.
Medical professionals across the county will join and provide students with first-hand knowledge and instruction. Additionally, local community researchers will collaborate on our student's medical investigations, providing our La Salle students with local, regional, and national research opportunities.
Center Facilities & Equipment
Simulating realistic health care or trauma experiences where students can learn without the risk of injury is difficult. However, The CARLOW Center of Medical Innovation is equipped with virtual facilities and equipment, including interactive patients and authentic learning environments from our virtual care library, including Exam Rooms, Operating Rooms, ICU, NICU, PICU, Outdoor Cityscapes, Residential, Assisted, & Long Term Care Facilities.
Acadicus Virtual Platforms
Acadicus is an exciting virtual reality healthcare platform where students can experience clinical environments relevant to their future and receive extensive medical terminology, communication, and teamwork training across various healthcare environments. By bringing participants together, students will interact with patients and peers inside the VR scenario without the restraints of physical location. The Acadicus curriculum provides realistic trauma simulations to teach students to rely on their training, regulate their emotions, thoughts, and actions, triage patients, and practice complex skills to resolve traumatic medical situations. In addition to an expansive VR library of medical scenarios, this platform allows an instructor to quickly create additional healthcare scenarios most relevant to our students.
Prostheses Center-Caring and Investing in State of the Art Scanners and 3D Printers
Few things in life are harder than being born without a limb or losing a limb later in life. We have invested in high-end scanners and 3D printers to engineer and produce prosthetic arms, legs, hands, and feet to serve all those less fortunate who live life daily without. Young aspiring medical practitioners will become highly trained in the technical skills of the creation of artificial prostheses and consult with experts in the field to hone their skills in the design and application of each prosthetic. With great appreciation for those who served our country, our center will provide engineered prosthetics to help transform the lives of pediatric patients and honor the sacrifice of veterans.
Anatomage Table-Delivering studies in functional Anatomy and Physiology
Our State of Art 3D Anatomage table provides opportunities for our students to visualize human anatomy with the highest level of accuracy. This technology will transform the way kinesiology is taught and how students learn anatomy and physiology. Anatomage bodies provide active physiological responses inside a living human body, simulating and projecting the same responses one would experience in a research laboratory or clinical setting.
The CARLOW Center for Medical Uniforms & Schedule
Our newly constructed facility is located on the ground floor adjacent to the La Salle Library and Resource Center. All students must wear scrubs, coats, and shoes appropriate for the medical/lab environment. Our new Center will be open from 2:25-4:00 pm daily for labs, academic support, and skill practice.
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The CARLOW Center for Medical Innovation at La Salle College Preparatory is generously funded by a grant from the Carrico Family Foundation.
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