California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley | Local students could be key to one day solving doctor and nurse shortage in the Central Valley

Local students could be key to one day solving doctor and nurse shortage in the Central Valley

July 25, 2017

Above: High school students from the Stockton area learn what it’s like to deliver a baby at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Modesto. The students are part of a two week summer program called “Decision Medicine.” (Photo Credit: KXTV)

By Kurt Rivera, KXTV

In a hospital room in Modesto, 17-year-old Jones is helping give birth to a baby.

It’s eye opening. It’s real and like how crazy it is,” Jones said, an incoming senior at Lincoln High School in Stockton.

But it’s not real.

It’s a simulation.

It’s all part of a high school program now in it’s 16th year called “Decision Medicine.”

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