STEM Works Videos
PBS Reno STEM Work videos are aligned with the STEM Career Cluster. Career Clusters contain occupations in the same field of work that require similar skills.
PBS Reno STEM Works | Area Health Education Centers: AHEC
PBS Reno STEM Works
Area Health Education Centers: AHEC
Are you curious about a career in medicine, as a doctor, nurse, dentist or in a support position?
GLOSSARY
STEM — STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and math. It represents an interdisciplinary and integrated approach to gathering hands-on experience and applying “real-world” knowledge. People who work in STEM fields use knowledge in science, engineering, technology, or math to understand the world around us and to solve problems.
Ambassador — a person who acts as a representative or promoter of a particular body or activity.
Aspire — direct one's hopes or ambitions towards achieving something.
Collaboration — the action of working with someone to produce something.
Community — a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
Diversity — the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.
Equitable — fair and just, especially in a way that takes account of and seeks to address existing inequalities.
Employment — the action of giving work to someone.
Health Care — the organized provision of medical care to individuals or a community.
Initiative — an act or strategy intended to resolve a difficulty or improve a situation; a fresh approach to something.
Mental Health — a state of mental well-being that enables people to cope with the stresses of life, realize their abilities, learn and work well, and contribute to their community.
Nursing — the profession or practice of providing care for the sick and infirm.
Radiology — the science dealing with X-rays and other high-energy radiation, especially the use of such radiation for the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
Rural — in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town.
Scrubs — the sanitary clothing worn by physicians, nurses, dentists and other workers involved in patient care.
Shadow — accompany (someone) in their daily activities at work in order to gain experience at or insight into a job.
Social Worker — a person whose job is to help people in a particular area who have social disadvantages or personal problems.
Urban — in, relating to, or characteristic of a town or city, as opposed to the countryside or to a village.
Workforce — the people engaged in or available for work, either in a country or area or in a particular company or industry.
X-Ray — a type of medical imaging that uses radiation to take pictures of the inside of your body.
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