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Allied Health encompasses health care professions that identify, diagnose, and treat illnesses and diseases (does not include medicine or nursing). This includes technicians, medical coders, and administrative and other medical staff.
The Criminal Justice Professional Training Program offers classes to area law enforcement officers. These classes provide re-certification for current skills and opportunities to enhance an officer's skills in new areas. The program offers many specialized classes based upon requests and the needs of the law enforcement agencies we serve.
Central Sterile Processing Technicians serve surgeons by processing and assembling surgical instruments and supporting inventory in operating rooms. Upon completion of this course, students are able to apply the principles of sterilization and disinfection in the workplace as well as knowledge about distribution of instruments, supplies, and equipment.
The Plan determines the required frequency of class visitations for compliance.
The 300-hour course teaches the art of caring for the hands and feet. After successfully completing the course, the students will be able to sit for the North Carolina State Board of Cosmetic Art's exam to be a licensed Manicurist.
Betty Lyons, director of Adult Basic Education, is emotional when she talks about leaving her career of 43 years behind, tearing up as she talks about the students she has worked with over the years. She started in July of 1980 as a part-time GED instructor. Later, then-President Phail Wynn, who was hard to say no to, according to Lyons, asked her to take on Compensatory Education. It was a role she was initially apprehensive about, but ultimately found extremely rewarding and stayed in the position about 10 years.
John B. Buxton, a longtime leader of public education in North Carolina and a champion of providing educational opportunities to all students, has been named the fifth president of Durham Technical Community College.
Durham Tech's Creative & Liberal Arts programs range from university transfer options to immediate career entry in areas such as early childhood education and community Spanish interpretation.