Course
The full CareTown healthcare career-exploration experience.
Start Here
Welcome to CareTown
Start here. CareTown is an imaginary healthcare town where each stop helps you explore real-world healthcare roles, ask better questions, and collect clues about what may fit you. Its places, characters, and story situations are fictional.
Watch the Welcome to CareTown video
Watch the Welcome to CareTown introduction, then continue with your instructor.
How CareTown is organized
Module
The Welcome experience or one healthcare pathway, such as Nursing Neighborhood.
Unit and activity
A unit is a shorter lesson inside a module. An activity is one task inside that unit.
Your instructor may ask you to complete an activity on your own, with a partner or small group, or as a whole class. The learning goal stays the same.
How to complete this module
Website
Start Now
Begin on this page to learn what CareTown is and why you do not have to choose a whole future today.
Workbook
Open Workbook
Use pages 9-29 of the Course Workbook for the CareTown intro, brainstorm, pathway menu, Team Map, and starting interests. Then complete the Welcome Center reflection and exit tickets (pages 30-32) at the end of the Welcome section.
Instructor
Instructor Welcome
Your instructor will use this webpage and the Course Workbook to introduce the course and help the class choose a pathway stop.
Resources
Related real-world roles
CNA or nurse assistant, phlebotomist, EMT, pharmacy technician, medical assistant, sterile processing technician, community health worker, and peer support worker are examples of real-world occupations, not CareTown story characters and not promises of current job openings. They are included to help you compare roles and ask better questions. CareTown uses California examples as regional context; program names, training rules, openings, and employer requirements can change. If you may study or work in another state, verify that state's current licensing, certification, and transfer rules with the official board or program.