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Health Progress on #GOALS and Efforts Pointing Young People to Health Care Careers
February 12, 2025
A story in a recent Health Progress article that features our #GOALS (Go Out And Love Science) program sums up why we work so hard to introduce young people to careers in health care. The reporter captured a conversation between a middle schooler and Foundation President Robyn Kress.
At a recent #GOALS session, a seventh-grade boy leaned over to Kress and said, "I'm really good at sutures. I'm going to be a PA [physician assistant] one day." Kress asked if he had known what a PA was before that day.
"And he said, 'No, but I'm going to do it.' …" Kress recalled.
#GOALS allows us to partner with diverse educational institutions to provide young people with a day-long interactive experience that offers a clearer view of health care professions. Through the program, we’ve now reached more than 1,400 middle school students in three U.S. cities. It’s too early to tell how many of them will follow career pathways into health care, but we know one thing: that kid was really good at sutures.
Read the entire Health Progress article here.
Read the entire Health Progress article here.
