Hidden Careers in Health Care – Teacher Externship (Kansas City)

The Kansas City Metropolitan Healthcare Council (KCMHC) partnered with Real World Learning is providing a hands-on, immersive day designed to take you beyond textbooks and into the real world of health care careers — the ones your students have probably never heard of. Think about respiratory therapy, laboratory science, health care IT, sterile processing, health information management, and so many more. You’ll hear from professionals who’ve built incredible careers in these fields, then visit a health care facility to see it all firsthand. 

What you’ll walk away with: 

• Real career pathway knowledge you can bring straight into your classroom 
• Innovative teaching strategies tied to health care workforce needs 
• Connections with health care professionals and fellow educators 
• Resources and tools to help students uncover health care careers they may not know exist 
• Job shadowing opportunities to experience health care careers firsthand and bring those insights back to your classroom 

This experience is open to middle and high school educators across all subjects — not just science teachers! Whether you teach English, math, tech ed, or anything in between, your students benefit when you know what’s out there.