Wisconsin health care organizations invest in apprenticeship programs to help fill vacancies

Using a massive “slit” microscope, Anna Liegel examines aspects of the human eye most people don`t see: the tendril-like muscles of the iris or the occasional nevus, a freckle on the eye.

Only a few weeks after beginning the nine-month ophthalmic assistant program at Madison Area Technical College, Liegel works in an eye clinic, gets paid $18 an hour and has health insurance. And she’s not paying tuition for a program that otherwise costs an estimated $5,244.

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