University City High School students in Janellel Aleksic’s CTE Biomedical Innovations course recently participated in the second round of Emergency Department Design Presentations. During the past several weeks, these students worked in groups to research a variety of emergency department facilities and identify existing challenges. The students then developed innovations to address one or more of these issues and designed their own emergency departments that incorporated their innovations. The students addressed physical layout, staffing considerations and patient care, including safety and privacy, in their designs. Each group then presented their final projects to a panel of local healthcare professionals and district educators. Biomedical Innovations is a capstone course within the CTE Health Science and Medical Technology Industry Sector Patient Care Career Pathway.
