Healthcare Career Exploration

Welcome to CareTown

CareTown is an imaginary healthcare town. Its places, characters, and story situations are fictional; the healthcare occupations you explore are real-world roles. Each stop helps you learn without choosing your whole future today.

Start Welcome Module Preview Pathway Stops

Suggested pathway stop Nursing Neighborhood What does patient care require during a real hospital shift?

Naomi Price, CareTown Welcome Center guide — **Naomi Price** Welcome Center guide who explains the map.

Grace Kim, CareTown Explorer — **Grace Kim** CareTown Explorer who is also figuring out where to start.

Start Here

What is CareTown?

CareTown is a guided way to look around healthcare careers. You will meet guides, look at pathway stops, try short activities, and collect clues in your Career Passport.

CourseThe full CareTown healthcare career-exploration experience.
ModuleThe Welcome experience or one healthcare pathway, such as Nursing Neighborhood.
UnitA shorter lesson inside a module, organized around one learning goal.
ActivityA task inside a unit that you complete on your own, with a partner or group, or as a class.

Watch the Welcome to CareTown introduction, then continue with your instructor.

Today is a visit, not a final decision.

Notice what healthcare workers do, what training may feel like, and what questions to ask next.

What did I learn? What do I wonder? What might fit me?

CareTown Map

Preview a pathway stop.

Select a numbered map pin to update the preview panel. All eight healthcare pathway stops are open now.

Illustrated CareTown park map showing healthcare pathway stops with location images — Use the map pins or pathway cards to preview one CareTown stop.

Session passport: progress is kept only in this browser tab. It is not an individual student record.

Learning Path

CareTown Activity Path

Move through the Welcome Center in a simple order. Your instructor may project, print, or share each activity.

Website

Welcome Module Learn what CareTown is and how the pathway stops work. Start Now

Website

CareTown Map Preview the stops before choosing where to look more closely. Start Now

Workbook

Interest Inventory Open the Course Workbook and check the choices that sound like you. Start on your own, then share one pattern with a partner, group, or the class if invited. Open Workbook

Workbook

Course Workbook Open the activity pages and first stop planner. Open Workbook

Workbook

Reflection Journal Save what you learned, wondered, and may want to explore next. Open Journal

Ready for Your First Stop

Preview one pathway, collect one clue, and bring one question forward.

Your instructor will guide the room from one screen. Activities can be completed independently, with a partner or small group, or as a whole class using a printed handout, shared document, or projected prompt.