At a new Tucson high school, students don’t just prepare for health care careers—they operate

The new Mel & Enid Zuckerman Center for Health and Medical Careers has students work in a community clinic, practice on dummies that can throw up, and even operate on dogs and cats. Many former high school students might recall a regular, if bizarre rite of passage: dissecting a frog during biology class. At Pima JTED, or joint technological education district, a new vocational school in Tucson, Arizona, students won’t just examine amphibians, but perform real veterinary surgeries, and...