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Field trip opportunities for our students:
- UT Southwestern
- Baylor, Scott & White Hospital
- Animal research conference
- Baylor School of Dentistry
- Praire View School of Medicine
- El Centro College - Allied Health
- University of Texas at Dallas
- UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Children's Hospital
From our students:
" The Academy of Health Sciences has helped me alot with gaining more knowledge about the medical field."
Karen 11th Grade
"The NAF AOHS has helped me learn how this academy is gonna help me later on in the future and what I have to do to be helped."
Jaqueline 9th Grade
"NAF AOHS program has helped me gain confidence in myself. It taugh me how to be a leader and an outgoing student. AOHS is a program in am most grateful for because it broadened my knowledge in the medical field and gave me an insight to what the health care profession it's like. Now I feel I am more prepared to pursue a career in the medical field."
Bisharo 12th Grade
For more information about our program please contact LDykes@dallasisd.org
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All NAF, National Academy Foundation, Academies have an open enrollment policy.
Building a Strong Foundation for College and Career in Medicine and Health Care
Student Organization:
HOSA - Health Occupations Students of America
Social Media twitter Account:
https://twitter.com/SkylineAOHS
https://instagram.com/skyline_aohs?igshid=1jzlref5ycs5q
Building a Strong Foundation for College and Career in Medicine and Health Care
- Principles of Biomedical Science (PBS) – Year 1
The Principles of Biomedical Science course provides an introduction to biomedical science through exciting hands-on projects and problems. Students investigate concepts of biology and medicine as they explore health conditions including heart disease, diabetes, sickle-cell disease, hypercholesterolemia, and infectious diseases..
The activities and projects in PBS introduce students to human physiology, basic biology, medicine, and research processes and allow students to design experiments to solve problems. Key biological concepts, including maintenance of homeostasis in the body, metabolism, inheritance of traits, and defense against disease are embedded in the curriculum. This course is designed to provide an overview of all the courses in the biomedical science program and lay the scientific foundation for subsequent courses.
Students practice problem solving with structured activities and progress to open-ended projects and problems that require them to develop planning, documentation, communication, and other professional skills.
- Human Body Systems (HBS) – Year 2
In the Human Body Systems course, students examine the interactions of body systems as they explore identity, communication, power, movement, protection, and homeostasis. Students design experiments, investigate the structures and functions of the human body, and use data acquisition software to monitor body functions such as muscle movement, reflex and voluntary action, and respiration. Exploring science in action, students build organs and tissues on a skeletal manikin, work through interesting real world cases, and often play the role of biomedical professionals to solve medical mysteries. In addition, Students practice problem solving with structured activities and progress to open-ended projects and problems that require them to develop planning, documentation, communication, and other professional skills.
- Medical Interventions (MI) – Year 3
Medical Interventions allows students to investigate the variety of interventions involved in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease as they follow the lives of a fictitious family. A “How-To” manual for maintaining overall health and homeostasis in the body, the course will explore how to prevent and fight infection, how to screen and evaluate the code in our DNA, how to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer, and how to prevail when the organs of the body begin to fail. Through these scenarios students will be exposed to the wide range of interventions related to immunology, surgery, genetics, pharmacology, medical devices, and diagnostics. Each family case scenario will introduce multiple types of interventions, reinforce concepts learned in the previous two courses, and present new content. Interventions may range from simple diagnostic tests to treatment of complex diseases and disorders. These interventions will be showcased across the generations of the family and will provide a look at the past, present, and future of biomedical science. Lifestyle choices and preventive measures are emphasized throughout the course as well as the important role that scientific thinking and engineering design play in the development of interventions of the future.
Students practice problem solving with structured activities and progress to open-ended projects and problems that require them to develop planning, documentation, communication, and other professional skills.
- Biomedical Innovations – Year 4
This is a capstone course, students will apply their knowledge and skills to answer questions or solve problems related to the biomedical sciences. Students design innovative solutions for the health challenges of the 21st century as they work through progressively challenging open-ended problems, addressing topics such as clinical medicine, physiology, biomedical engineering, and public health. Students will have the opportunity to work on an independent project and may work with a mentor or advisor from a university, hospital, physician’s office, or industry. Throughout the course, students are expected to present their work to an adult audience that may include representatives from the local business and healthcare community.
