About Health Sciences Early College Academy

Get real healthcare experience and free college credit in actual healthcare settings! You could be on your way to becoming a geneticist, biomedical engineer, doctor or whatever healthcare career is right for you. Interested? If you'll be a high school junior or senior with a minimum 3.0 GPA and some math and science background, this could be just the program for you. Contact us at 616.447.5671 or email hseca@kentisd.org.

Downtown Market Programs - NEW location in 2013-14!

Therapeutic Services & Diagnostic Services - with experiences at Metro Health Hospital and on the Medical Mile (Programs located at Metro Hospital until June 2013)

• Examine actual human anatomy in a visit to a cadaver lab and observe muscles, organs and their functions
• Observe a nursing home patient for a semester, perform tests, present findings to the Director of Nursing
  

• Perform microbiology to grow and study bacteria and its uses in patient treatment
• Collect and identify "crime scene" information, use lab and forensic science to solve "crimes"

Downtown Programs

Diagnostic Services - Grand Rapids School of Health, Science and Technology/FSU

Biomedical Technology - GVSU's Cook-DeVos Center Downtown

• Learn through real projects in Pathophysiology, using Biomedical Technology to explore the "cutting edge" cures on Grand Rapids' Medical Mile
• Practice Medical Procedures in actual GVSU labs for Sonography, Electrocardiography, live blood draws, lung testing, & Biomedical experiments
• Separate DNA for forensic identification using electrophoresis
• Perform and study diagnostic lab procedures

Key Highlights for all Locations

• Enroll in college and participate in college coursework, while you're still in high school
  
• Earn at least 6 free college credits each year - up to 14 credits after two years!

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• US News 100 Best Jobs
• HSECA and the Downtown Market

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