Good Samaritan North Career Exploration event bigger than ever

220  attend  career event.

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By Marc Katz, Staff Writer Updated 10:52 PM Monday, October 24, 2011

ENGLEWOOD — Lacey Stumbo of the Miami Valley Career Technology Center and her mother, Julie, stood in front of a narrow table where nurse/midwife Pamela Madden explained what she does.

“We take care of women through their entire pregnancy,” Madden said. “We set goals as to how they want their pregnancy to go. With a midwife, there is less of a C-section risk and we have a lower epidural rate.”

In its third year, the Good Samaritan North’s Student Career Exploration is already expanding. Last year, 150 students from 27 different schools attended. There were nearly that many students in the exhibition room even before the event started last week. Eventually, 220 students from 38 schools attended the evening event on a rainy night.

“I want a career in labor and delivery, and we went over this (midwifery) in school,” said Lacey, a Wayne High School senior.

Nearly 30 hospital-related careers were represented along with several colleges, enabling students and parents not only to learn about those careers, but what course of study to follow in high school and college to land those jobs.

Of particular interest to students were the areas of physical therapy, sports medicine and nursing. There were also informational personnel discussing administration, dietetics, pharmacy and volunteer services.

Trotwood battalion Chief Steve Milliken brought three of his trucks to show what fire and EMS personnel do.

“This (expo) allows parents to get here and see it, too,” he said.

Debbie Janis, with the hospital’s marketing and communications department, said the event is already popular, even though invitations are sent only to the 14 area schools that have some kind of partnership with the hospital, students from many more schools attended.

“We even had a registration from Cincinnati,” Janis said.

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