TRIMEDX Vice President of Organizational Learning & Workforce Strategy Courtney Kinkade and AAMI Vice President of Healthcare Technology Management Danielle McGeary joined the Apprenticeship 2.0 podcast to discuss the BMET Apprenticeship Program and how it creates opportunities for candidates from non-traditional backgrounds.
In this episode, Joe and guest co-host Dr. Holly Smith, Executive Director and Vice President of Apprenticeship Degree and Design at Reach’s National Center for the Apprenticeship Degree, chat with Courtney Kinkade, Vice President of Organizational Learning and Workforce Strategy at TRIMEDX, and Danielle McGeary, First Vice President of Healthcare Technology Management at the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI). Together, they discuss the partnership between TRIMEDX and AAMI in creating an apprenticeship program for aspiring biomedical equipment technicians (BMETs), how their collaboration has evolved thus far, how the program’s hybrid model has proved effective, how the model has opened the door to candidates from nontraditional backgrounds, the importance of cultivating a sense of community and belonging among apprentices, and much more.