Mission: The mission of the Academy is to instruct students in all aspects of health-related careers, while maintaining a comprehensive high school education. The Academy is designed to prepare students for their place in an ever-changing world they will inherit - a world of health and human service.

Overview of the Academy: The Academy began in the fall of 1998 and has a current enrollment of over 200 students, freshmen through seniors, who have made a commitment to a challenging curriculum in the areas of allied health, professional, and biotechnology professions. Our goal as educators is to provide them with valuable experiences, appropriate curriculum, and real-world applications that will help them become successful members of society.

Learning Environment: The school learning environment is a combination of classroom and laboratory experiences along with research and field study opportunities that include clinical rotations, mentoring, and certifications in Emergency Medical Technician Basic (EMT), First Aid, CPR, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), an online Pass Assured Pharmacy Tech certification and a Veterinary Medical Assistant certification. The curriculum is presented using an interdisciplinary, thematic approach that incorporates such teaching aides as textbooks, models, laboratories, and computer Internet access and computer software programs.

Real-World Experiences: Students are exposed to real-world settings through clinical experiences and internships, Career Investigation Days, speakers and field trips. Students are placed in one-year clinical  internships that provide a real-world setting that compliments their field of interest. Placements are available in selected departments of hospitals, nursing homes, pharmacies, optometry, veterinary clinics, agricultural and medical research facilities, and biomedical engineering firms.

The Academy has current or past partnerships with such renowned facilities as Children's Medical Center, Denton County MHMR Center, Lake Village Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Las Colinas Medical Center, Parkland Hospital, Presbyterian Hospital of Plano, RHD Memorial Medical Center, Baylor Medical Center in Carrollton, and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. The Academy has also received local attention in the Dallas Morning News and Carrollton Leader newspapers.

Advisory Board: The Academy has a dedicated and qualified advisory board whose mission is to "form a network of opportunities and to provide input and direction to the Academy in order to provide our students with appropriate curriculum, valuable experiences, and real-world applications that will prepare them for the world-of-work." Board members represent the following areas of biomedical professions: agricultural science, biomedical engineering, biomedical research, biotechnology, business liaison, community support for healthcare programs, dentistry, Emergency Medical Services, health careers education, hospital administration, nursing, optometry, patient care services, physician, pharmacology, and veterinary medicine. Brookhaven College, Cedar Valley College, Southern Methodist University, Texas A&M University, and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas represent post-secondary education.

Roma Jain, Director
jainr@cfbisd.edu
972-968-5472

Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, national origin, race, color, sex, religion, disability or against any other legally-protected group.