Azusa Academy of Health Sciences

🏆 A NAF Distinguished Academy 🏆

The Medical Academy at Azusa High School distinguishes itself as a top tier health science program, earning the national Katherine Blasik Distinguished recognition from NAF. Students in this pathway gain a significant head start in the healthcare field through a combination of rigorous coursework and immersive, hands-on training in our professional-grade medical lab. By participating in specialized internships and clinical-style experiences, students develop the practical skills and industry connections required to excel in competitive medical programs and high-demand healthcare careers.

ROP HEALTH CAREERS ROP14
This concentrator course is designed to provide students specific content knowledge with industry skills and leadership development within the Patient Care pathway. Courses are aligned to the basic knowledge levels necessary to learn and recognize word roots, prefixes, and suffixes used in medical language, understand the prevention, wellness, and disease process, and the associated skill application consistent with the Patient Care pathways scope and practice in either direct or indirect client/patient services including short term certifications such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and automated external defilation. This course is designed to provide students specific content knowledge with industry skills and leadership development within the Patient Care pathway. Courses are aligned to the basic knowledge levels necessary to learn and recognize word roots, prefixes, and suffixes used in medical language, understand the prevention, wellness, and disease process, and the associated skill application consistent with the Patient Care pathways scope and practice in either direct or indirect client/patient services including short term certifications such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and automated external defilation.