High School Pathways Programs
There is no charge to become a member to access free career resources: health career videos, self-directed on-line health careers courses and other related opportunities offered by our colleagues at Northeast Wisconsin AHEC.
Looking for a career in the medical field? You’ll find everything you need here! Wisconsin Health Careers offers information about a wide variety of healthcare jobs and information about the demand of the career, what classes to take, where you can go to school in and around Wisconsin and even projected hiring for trained professionals. Wisconsin Health Careers Website
Milwaukee AHEC partners with Messmer High School and the UW School of Medicine & Public Health - TRIUMPH Program , to implement Youth Health Service Corps (YHSC). Milwaukee AHEC started YHSC in 2008 and continues to this day to inspire teens to explore health careers.
The TRIUMPH medical students serve as mentors and provide hands- on activities, field trips and service-learning project support to the YHSC members. Many YHSC graduates are now public health professionals and health care providers.
Milwaukee AHEC partners with the Milwaukee Public Schools to facilitate a HOSA Future Health Professionals Chapter with James Madison Academic Campus, North Division High School and South Division High School. The mission of HOSA is to empower HOSA-Future Health Professionals to become leaders in the global health community through education, collaboration, and experience. The purpose of HOSA-Future Health Professionals is to develop leadership and technical HOSA skill competencies through a program of motivation, awareness, and recognition, which is an integral part of the Health Science Education instructional program.
Milwaukee AHEC hosts an AmeriCorps member through the Marshfield Clinic Health System AmeriCorps Community Corps Program to lead this partnership.