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Even before Groundhog Day, staff from the OR, STRATUS, Nursing, Pharmacy, Radiology and more were seeing shadows—job shadows, that is.
As part of a Boston Private Industry Council (PIC) initiative, BWH participated in the city’s 14th annual Groundhog Job Shadow Day, hosting 20 students from Madison Park Vocational Technical High School for a firsthand look at what a career in health care entails.
Paired with mentors throughout the hospital, the students tested their skills at the STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation and the Nursing Simulation Center; rounded with the care team in the Trauma and Burns intensive care unit, watched staff perform X-rays, surgeries and more.
Student Yoely Brea Lugo, a sophomore who aspires to be a plastic surgeon, watched a breast reduction surgery up close, among several other surgeries that morning, during her shadowing of Trauma surgeons.
“Thank you to the 12 mentors who volunteered to host a student,” said Carlen Singmaster, special events coordinator for BWH. “This day meant a lot to the students, and many of them came away inspired and determined to pursue a career in health care.”