Compass Cases
Find your direction in healthcare, one patient story at a time.
Compass Cases is a pre-health career exploration curriculum built around real patient stories. Start with one patient, follow their care through the whole system and discover many careers that contribute to healthcare, long before you need to choose one.
Both tools run right in the browser. Click into the ecosystem to meet the people behind one patient's care, or use the Career Compass to find the roles that fit how you want to work.
Follow Jordan Chen's red eye from the pharmacy counter to a rheumatology diagnosis, and meet the 30+ professionals along the way. Each one opens a full career card: the path in, the training, the pay, and what a day actually looks like.
Open the interactive map →Answer a few questions about how you like to work, with people or with data, fast-paced or methodical, hands-on or behind the scenes, and see which healthcare careers from the case line up with you.
Find your direction →Each case follows a different patient and a different cluster of careers. The ecosystem map above is built from Case One; more cases join the series over time.
A college sophomore’s three-day red eye turns out to be anterior uveitis, and the first sign of an underlying autoimmune diagnosis. The case spans more than 30 careers across two years of care.
What looks like “just the flu” becomes a lesson in vaccines, early pregnancy, and the science and systems behind everyday care, told through a new cast of fourteen professionals.
The full written cases and the Career Compass guide are available to download and adapt. The interactive tools above can be linked directly or embedded.