Careers in health events for schools

Our Health Clinics conduct events throughout the year at our Kelvin Grove, Gardens Point and Caboolture campuses. These events aim to provide primary and high school students with a unique insight into the exciting and diverse range of career options within the health sciences industry.

For more information, contact Nikki Todd.

 

Podiatry - 'Feet First'

Year: 6 - 12
Time required: 50 minutes

Students are given a tour of the QUT Health Clinics Podiatry area, with a comprehensive overview of the high tech equipment used in clinical podiatry.

Students remove their shoes and podiatrists assess for different foot types. Our clinician and team of podiatry students will then perform an assessment and provide explanations of the results using a pedoscope (light box).

Students are shown orthoses and are given an explanation of how these are made. Plaster casts are taken of several students' feet to show them the start of the process.

CARRS-Q Simulator Experience

Year: 11 & 12
Time required: 50 minutes

The Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety – Queensland (CARRS-Q) is one of the leading centres in Australia dedicated to research, education and outreach activities in road safety, and is a vital player in the international pursuit of road safety. As one of only two internationally recognised, university-based research centres of its kind in Australia, the centre was created to address the enormous human, economic and social factors resulting from road crashes.

This activity provides students with a unique insight into a specific area within the psychology and counselling discipline, showcasing the wide variety of career path opportunities available within the health industry.

Nursing - 'Nursing your Way to Better Health'

Year: 6 - 12
Time required: 45 minutes

Take a tour through our state of the art learning simulation centre, which replicates a hospital environment, complete with simulated dummies and real patient care scenarios being enacted by our nursing students.

This is a hands-on session aimed at years 6-12 in which children are able to experience some of the practical aspects of studying nursing and midwifery at QUT. Students break into 4 smaller groups and perform tasks such as:

  • taking blood pressure
  • bandaging techniques
  • removing sutures
  • preparing syringes.

These activities give a 'real life' insight into the skills and knowledge developed within the field of nursing and midwifery, in a fun group environment.

Human Movement Studies - 'Kick, Run and Jump'

Year: 6 - 12
Time required: 45 minutes

Kick, run and jump your way through this session as you gain insight into the field of Human Movement Studies.

Students who participate in this physical and interactive activity are able to gain understanding of performance testing, movement analysis and metabolic assessment within a clinical environment by utilizing state-of-the-art equipment in up-to-date teaching laboratories.

Nutrition and Dietetics - 'Healthy Pizza Making'

Year: 6 - 12
Time required: 45 minutes

A hands-on activity aimed at any age group which shows how fun and easy it is to make a healthy pizza rather than a high-fat fast-food pizza.

This activity demonstrates eating the five food groups and promoting health eating which relates back to what Nutrition and Dietetics is all about.

Nutrition and Dietetics - 'Healthy Lunchbox Seminars'

Year: 6 – 12
Time required: 50 minutes

Struggling to find healthy lunch alternatives that the kids will actually eat and enjoy? Come along to QUT Health Clinics' healthy lunchbox seminars to:

  • receive nutritional tips and tricks
  • watch a cooking demonstration
  • have a hands-on fun-filled day.

Optometry - 'The Blind Side'

Year: 6 - 10
Time required: 50 minutes

A hands-on activity aimed at years 6 - 10 where the students simulate living with visual impairments. It's a chance to see what type of eye diseases optometrists treat, as well as seeing what it is like to suffer from a visual impairment. The students are able to test each other's vision, as well as their colour vision and depth perception.

Can't make it to an on-campus event?

Contact Nikki Todd to register your school for our QUT Health Clinics Team to bring a range of fun activities to your school.

Also available in-school:

  • Podiatry - 'Feet First'
  • Nutrition and Dietetics - 'Healthy Pizza Making'
  • Human Movement Studies - 'Kick, Run and Jump'
  • Nursing - 'Nursing your Way to Better Health'
  • Nutrition and Dietetics - 'Healthy Lunchbox Seminars'.