What is the Medical Certificate Program?
Information Below Updated Last - Sept 3, 2023
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Beckman's Medical Certificate Program (MCP) was founded in 2015 to give students an introduction to the medical field and the unique opportunity to interact with health professionals. It is a free, optional 3 year sequential club/program that awards students with certificates each year and a graduation award if students complete all 3 years. Last school year (2022-2023), our program had over 500 Beckman students enrolled/participating, and over 60 health care professionals come onto our school campus to mentor, teach and inspire our students. Any Beckman student may join at any time. See below for requirements to earn a certificate/award.
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For more information, please email Mr. Chow at pchow@tustin.k12.ca.us!
For more information, please follow us on Instagram @BHS_MCP or view the Year 1-3 Tabs!
Year 1
To receive a certificate, students need to complete an online Anatomy Course with 10 modules on the 10 human body systems. In addition, students need to attend 4 of 6 offered speaker seminars during select Wednesday "Free" Tutorials where they will learn from and interact with healthcare professionals in different specialties based on student interest.
(Last year's specialties (2022-2023) included Emergency Medicine Anesthesiology, Pediatrics, Neurosurgery, Family/Internal Medicine, General Surgery, OBGYN and Primary Care.)
Year 2
To receive a certificate, students need to attend 4 of the 6 offered speaker seminars during select Wednesday "Free" Tutorials where they will learn from and interact with healthcare professionals in different specialties based on student interest.
(Last year's specialties included Registered Nurse/Nurse Practitioner, Resident Doctor, Director of Machine Learning (Edwards Lifesciences), Chief Technology Officer (Bio Tech Company), etc.
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In addition, students will engage in a Spring Mentorship Professional Networking event (in person) where they will choose 3 mentors of interest from a large list of specialties and have an opportunity to have an open dialogue with the medical professional for 45-60 minutes each. Students are required to prepare specific questions to ask their mentor.
Year 3
This Year, to receive a Year 3 certificate and the MCP Graduation Pin, students will need to attend a our Fall "Medical Day" in which they will go through a series of in-person workshops that are aimed to help them start thinking about the next stages of their professional plan AND & our Fall "Medical Skills Day" (a NEW event started last school year) where students will learn a variety of Medical Skills for a future career in healthcare.
For our Fall Medical Day, students will interact with 6 different panels: College Underclassmen, College Upperclassmen, Medical Students, Doctors in Residency, Young Doctors/Professionals in STEM for 1-10 years, and Doctors/Professionals in STEM for 10+ years.
In addition, students will complete an online Professional Development Course with modules on student loans, interviewing tips and how to choose a career/specialty.
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In addition, students will attend 1 of 2 offered Keynote Seminars during Spring Semester
Finally, students will have the opportunity to complete an
in-person lab dissection this Spring 2024!
**Before Covid (2020), we created a partnership/agreement with a local CPR Training Company for the opportunity to provide low-cost CPR certification for our members on our BHS campus. At this point, we are unsure whether or not we can provide this opportunity for THIS school year (2023-2024). More information to come! Thank you for your understanding!