Medical Bridges
Richard J. Daley College
One of the City Colleges of Chicago
Medical Career Bridges
• Goals:
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• To fill-in the learning gaps of the student’s basic skills.
• Give student’s hands-on experience in the health
vocational program using the contextualized training
model.
Medical Career Bridges
• Objective:
• Provide guidance to the students in their choice
of health program pathways
• Provide instruction to the students who did not
reach required score on academic placement
test to be admitted into healthcare vocational
programs.
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• Collaborative Departments of the
College
• Adult Education
• Continuing Education
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• Structure of the contextualize learning
• Adult Education responsibilities:
• Instructor
• ABE courses
• Basic Skill Instruction Contextualized to the Healthcare Industry
• Workforce Courses
• Employment Readiness
• Career Assessment And Exploration
• Workforce Bridge Course
• Continuing Education responsibilities
• Contextual courses
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Medical Terminology
Anatomy and Physiology
Computer Literacy
Medical Law and Ethics
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• Funding Sources
• Adult Education Funds
• Grants
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WIA
CHA
ICCB
Financial Aid
• Continuing Education
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Three Healthcare Tracks upon successful completion of Bridge
Healthcare Technician
Nursing Track
Administrative Track
CNA with Administrative
Skills
CNA with
Administrative Skills
Medical Billing and
Coding
Patient Care Technician
Practical Nurse
Externship
Radiology Technician
Ultrasound Technician
Vascular Technician
Registered Nurse
State and National
Certification
Preparation Course
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Medical Career Bridges
• What is this man doing to the
woman?
• Can you spell it?
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• Partnerships
• The Medical Bridges has been created in partnership with
Central States SER.
• SER recruits the candidates and case management and
researches funding sources for the pathway programs.
• Daley College - Arturo Velasquez offers the training and
pre and post assessment of the students and gives the
final recommendations for the students to progress into the
medical pathway that begins with the CNA program.
Medical Career Bridges
Technical Literacy
Technical Specialty
Four Days per Week
One Day per Week
Hours
Week 1-7
Week 1-7*
1.5
Workplace Mathematics
60 hours
1.5
Workplace Communications
Employment Skills
Careers in Discipline
84 hours
2
Reading for
Information
56 Hours
Computer Literacy
56 Hours
Assessment
Week 1 – TABE
Locator
TABE Level 9
Week 8 – TABE Level 9
COMPASS testing
Medical
Terminology
Anatomy and
Physiology
Hands-on
demonstrations
and assessment
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• What are these legs wearing?
• What is the technical term?
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• Pre Bridge Learning Outcomes
•Contextualized basic skills: Beginning skill levels
between 5.0 to 6.5
•Improved reading for information scores
•Improved applied math scores
•Improved writing scores
•Soft skills
•Medical career skills
•Pulse Oximetry
•Apply Noninvasive BP Monitor
•Apply Antiembolism Stockings
•Vital Sign Monitoring
•Basic medical terminology
•Basic industry terms
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Medical Bridge: Skill level between 6.6 to 8.9
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Contextualized basic skills
• Improved reading for information scores
• Improved applied math scores
• Improved writing scores
• Soft skills
• All materials based on medical field applications.
Medical career skills
• Pulse Oximetry
• Apply Noninvasive BP Monitor
• Apply Antiembolism Stockings
• Vital Sign Monitoring
• Basic medical terminology
• Basic Anatomy and Physiology
• Professional ethics
• Strategies for dealing with stress
• Customer service skills
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• Cohort
Sections
Pre-Bridge 1
date: 4/14/2008
6/4/2008
Pre-Bridge 2
date: 10/6/2008
12/18/2008
Pre-Bridge 3
date: 2/9/2009
4/14/2009
Pre-Bridge 4
date: 4/15/2009
6/8/2009
MB 01
date: 4/17/2007
6/14/2007
MB 02
date: 9/11/2007
12/6/2007
MB 03
date: 2/25/2008
4/21/2008
MB 04
date: 4/17/2008
7/1/2008
MB 05
date: 7/7/2008
9/11/2008
MB 06
date: 10/6/2008
12/18/2008
MB 07
date: 2/9/2009
4/14/2009
MB 08
date:
6/8/2009
MB 09
date: 11/2/2009
12/18/2009
MB 10
date: 2/8/2010
3/14/2010
04/15/2009
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• Student completions:
Total students enrolled in either pre-bridge or medical
bridge
146
Total students completing
pre-bridge
13
Total students completing medical -bridge
132
Completion
Rate
90.4%
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Statistics of Students
Students meeting scores to register and complete
CNA
103
Students
completing CNA
75
Students
completing PCT
64
Students registered for college
credit
57
Students registered for LPN/RN prerequisites
41
Students enrolled in LPN program
4
Bridge Students pending program start for Spring
2010
29
Medical Career Bridges
• HealthCare Bridge Uniqueness:
1. The innovative HealthCare Bridge blends of the Adult
Education courses, following the state guidelines for
Adult Education, and the contextualized skill training
offered through Continuing Education with an
affordable tuition rate for the students.
2. All students are provided comprehensive support
which includes case management, career advising,
tutoring and educational enhancement from the initial
assessment and enrollment throughout the program.
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HealthCare Bridge Uniqueness continued
3. The training approaches long term training and career
goals in a way that ensures student comfort and helps the
students build trust in themselves and in their program,
through various attainable benchmarks.
4. All students are to complete externships at each level of
training.
5. An Advisory Council has been created to provide
guidance and management direction throughout the
duration of the program. The Council is comprised of
executive management from Daley and Arturo Velasquez
Institute, SER, healthcare faculty representation, and
industry experts.
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• HealthCare Bridge Sustainability
• Through a two-year process of improvement and
formalization, the Pre-Healthcare and Healthcare Bridge
model has continuously prepared educationally
disadvantaged adults for Healthcare certificates in Certified
Nursing Assistant licensure, Patient Care Technician utilizing
WIA vouchers and to begin the LPN/RN prerequisites utilizing
Financial Aid.
• The Healthcare Bridge program provides feasible ways for
adults who would otherwise remain unemployed or underemployed to make the transition to a well-paying job in the
Healthcare industry. In addition, the Healthcare Bridge is
designed to provide a career pathway - to prepare these
individuals not only for entry-level skilled jobs, but also for
the additional post-secondary education and training they will
need to develop an advanced Healthcare related careers.
Medical Career Bridges
• Next Steps…
• Continuous Cohort support
• Transitioning into the college credit course levels
• College Transition Pilot starting April 5, 2010
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Medical Bridge students will begin the CNA program
One hour per day of transitional literacy will be offered
Students will be pre and post tested within the training.
Case manager will be assigned to each cohort to assist with
continuous support for the students.
• Goal
• To enhance the student outcome to transition directly into the LPN/RN
prerequisite courses without any further remediation
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Thank You!!
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