UT Health Sciences News: Planting the Seed – Growing Tomorrow’s Health Care Workforce One Field Trip at a Time

Inside a converted Save-A-Lot in the Binghampton neighborhood of Memphis, elementary and middle schoolers pull on white lab coats and other uniforms as they get to work.

They are bankers, pharmacists, business owners, and doctors for the day, managing budgets, running storefronts, and making decisions inside a miniature city called JA BizTown, the flagship experiential learning hub for Junior Achievement of Memphis and the Mid-South. Every student who walks in, has an interaction or makes a transaction, steps behind a desk or a counter, encounters, in some form, the world of grown-up work.

For the University of Tennessee Health Sciences, one of those storefronts carries the university's name over the doorway and a deliberate purpose behind it.

Read more on the UT Health Sciences News website.