We are actively building on-campus certification opportunities for our pre-health students.

For the academic year, 2023-2024 on-campus training and courses we will have:

EMT Certification

Through a generous collaboration with Mission College and the Cowell Health Center, we are offering an online lecture course with an in-person skills lab on SCU’s campus.  This course will be offered in the Fall and Winter/Spring to provide EMT training for 50 students per year.  With our own EMT equipped laboratory, we can dramatically increase the number of students that can complete this training and have a resource for recertification as well.

Check the Health Professions Camino page or email Dr. McNelis for more information.

CPR BLS

Through a collaboration with Santa Clara Fire Department and the SCU EMT Squad, we will be offering CPR BLS certification starting this academic year. Since most healthcare experiential opportunities require CPR certification, we want to provide ready access for certification and recertification for our students to support clinical placement opportunities.

Check the Health Professions Camino page or email Dr. McNelis for more information.

On-campus certification training such as EMT empowers our students for securing meaningful clinical experience while at SCU and for post-graduate opportunities. 

We are seeking additional collaborations to bring more medical certification training to campus. 

Online Certifications

In addition, we are identifying on-line healthcare professional training that healthcare organizations require (or encourage) for their care providers. Having our students complete low-cost online HIPAA certification and Implicit bias training prepares our students to be most effective in clinical settings during their undergraduate years and in their future healthcare careers.

Other On-Campus training

We are exploring training opportunities that will ensure that our students are functioning effectively in their work in clinical placements and post-graduation employment experiences. 

For example, we are offering an Intermediate Spanish for Healthcare course starting Winter and Spring quarters in 2024.

• Emphasis will be on communication, cultural fluency and medical Spanish
• Highly capable students will be able to pursue certification as Medical Interpreters 
• Possibility for training in other languages in the future with a healthcare focus
• Medical Interpretation is a certification that our students can use to gain clinical experience and post-graduate training