<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/academics/careertechnical/articles/patch-healthsciences-arcadia.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>06/04/2021</pubDate><title>Health Sciences Rise to the Challenge</title><author>Dr. Edward C. Ortell, Guest Columnist</author><image><img src="/academics/careertechnical/articles/images/patch-healthsciences-arcadia.jpg" alt="students wearing masks, gloves and scrubs practice clinical skills at individual dental workstations in a health sciences laboratory equipped with dental chairs, instruments and supplies"/></image><caption>Adhering to strict health and safety guidelines, students in the Citrus College Registered Dental Assistant (RDA) program returned to campus in fall 2020 to complete essential lab work.</caption><thumbnail/><display/><description>Future health care professionals persevered through remote instruction, changing safety protocols and renewed laboratory training as Citrus College kept its health sciences pathways moving forward during an extraordinary year.</description><tags><tag>academics</tag><tag>career technical programs</tag><tag>health sciences</tag></tags></item>