WHEELING — Wheeling Park High School has retooled its class in sports medicine and athletic training, and is now offering an overall introduction to medicine class.

Instruction begins this fall. About 25 students have signed up for the fall semester of the introduction to medicine class, while about that many also enrolled for the second offering during the spring semester, according to teacher Jennifer Hempelmann.

Hempelmann in recent years at WPHS taught anatomy practicum — a course focusing on sports medicine and athletic training practices.

The course, however, wasn’t particularly popular with students. She reported just four students enrolled last year.

“The course was designed around students who wanted to be athletic trainers, and the interest isn’t there anymore,” Hempelmann sa

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