Our med career’s pathway here at Buena Park High School helps students explore The learning of sports medicine. Here at bp they offer three types of classes for this pathway: body systems , med careers and sports medicine. These classes help students learn about the body and how to help with injuries. Students also get hands-on experience through in class assignments and real-life scenarios, which helps their understanding and skills. The pathway is designed to prepare students for further education and careers in the medical field. By the end of the program, students are well-equipped with the knowledge and experience to pursue their passion in sports medicine or any other medical profession they may wanna pursue. We got an opportunity to interview a few students that are on track to continue the pathway Buena Park high school has to offer. To start the program students get places into medical Careers which covers a variety of topics from cpr to neck bracing injured patients. After you get past the 1st class you now have the option to continue into body system or sports medicine. In sports medicine the focus is on sport related injuries such as dislocated ankles,sprain ankles,acl tears, and many more. In sports medicine they get a chance to attend field trips to the nocrop building facility and even a chance to visit the Cal state Long Beach athletic trainer program. In body systems they take a deeper dive into what systems make up the human body system, for example there are circulatory and digestive systems, with many more there is lots to learn in the class which makes it interesting and fun to look into. An interesting subject covered is common diseases and disorders in the body. We highly recommend this program especially for those who are looking towards the medical field.
Katie: First and last name,
Raphael: raphael esmas
Katie: What class are you taking body systems and what do you learn in that class?
Raphael: We learn about the different types of body parts in the human body, and like the different systems
Katie: who am I here with
Jorge: Jorge Padilla
Katie: What class are you in
Jorge: Sports medicine
Katie: And what do you learn in that class
Jorge: we learn about injuries, and how to take care of injuries, how to handle them,
Katie: What’s something that you’ve learned so far that stuck with you
Jorge: Probably how to recover from a bad injury, like an ankle sprain or something.
Katie: And what would you like to take away from this class
Jorge: I’d want to learn, probably how to be more prepared for when I get injured.
Katie: First and last name,
- JJ Solis
Katie: What class are you taking right now,
JJ: medical careers
Katie: what do you learn in medical careers,
JJ: basically injuries and how to take care of them
Katie: And what’s something that you’ve learned so far that stuck with you,
JJ: how to tape up my ankles
and my wrists and all that
Katie: And what does that help with?
JJ: less movement so that it doesn’t get injured more
We were able to get special words from our very own athletic trainer Vanessa who completed a similar pathway with years of education,experience and hard work.
Katie: Who am I here with?
Vanessa: Vanessa Munoz
Katie: What do you do here at BP?
Vanessa: I am your BPHS athletic trainer.
Katie: And what does that mean?
Vanessa: Athletic Training is a sort of like a physical therapist. That’s the easiest way I could explain it, but I basically work with athletics specifically, where as a physical therapist, they do all ages, young, youth, adult, elderly, where I’m specifically athletics, and I’m at the high school level,
Katie: What made you want to get into athletic training?
Vanessa: So if you ask any athletic trainer, it’s normally because they either got injured and started getting taken care of by an athletic trainer. That’s normally how it happens. My case was a little bit different. I didn’t have an athletic trainer at my school, but I was pretty injury prone. So in high school, I used to play basketball and volleyball, so I had a lot of ankle sprains. One day, I was just playing pickleball with one of my friends. He sprained his ankle, and I basically told him what to do. Within like, two or three days, he was like,” Yeah, I feel so much better.I don’t know whatever it is you told me to do but it worked.“ So for the longest, that’s what I wanted to do, but I didn’t even know athletic training was a thing. I thought it was just gonna be like physical therapy. And then I learned that a physical therapist is with all ages, and that’s just not what I want to do. I specifically wanted to do with sports. So then I went into college, applied for the physical therapy program. I went in as an exercise science major, and I kind of talked to my counselor before I made any final class decisions, and they’re like, Yeah, you should kind of look into athletic training. I think that might be your better scope of what you want to do. And it kind of just fell into my hands. And that’s kind of how it happened.
