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• Career Health Planning - is one way of helping students be aware of the terms and conditions when a student decided that he/she wanted to pursue a profession in a medical field.
• Components and steps in making a personal health career plan

  1. Self-Assessment

  2. Career Exploration

  3. Decision Making

  4. Taking Action
• Self-Assessment


  In choosing a career, your strengths will help you define what and where you are good at. Your talents, skills, personalities, and interests will help you choose a career that you will achieve, show good performance and enjoy.
• Career Exploration


  • Some people would prefer to explore themselves on different career descriptions, environments through reading online articles, asking people about their experiences, some would go to job fairs, others would voluntarily involve themselves on various fields and internships.
• Decision Making


  Decision making requires self-evaluation and critical analysis of one's strengths and weaknesses.
• Taking Action


  When a person has come up with the best decision and self-evaluation, confidence is needed to take action already and pursue the career chosen.
• Medical Field - is a broad field with different careers offered related to health care. These careers focus on serving people with medical concerns; however, the talents and skills of a person still depend on the area of health careers. Health Career Pathways - are ways for a person to understand more of the different professions in the medical field
• Direct Patient Care - the careers under this pathway are professionals who deal and assist patients personally. They are the ones who personally diagnose and treat the patient. - Professions under the direct patient care are usually found in hospitals, clinics, health and therapy centers
• 2. Imaging and Diagnostics Pathway - the careers offered on this pathway commonly deal with medical concerns through the use of technology. Some of the jobs under this pathway do not have any direct interaction with the patient. - They are usually operating machines and checking and studying different laboratory tests for diagnosis. They are found in laboratories
• 3. Health Care Facility Support - the careers under this pathway are usually not that mentioned or chosen by people. However - Careers offered on this pathway are responsible for maintaining quality services and environment
• 4. Health Informatics - careers in this pathway focus on patient’s documents, medical records, administration services, hospital unit coordination, booking of appointments and more. - Usually, health informatics are the people you go to when you want to be assisted or be familiarized on the different services offered by the hospital.
• 5. Research and Development - careers under the research and development focus on the study, research and development of different medical approaches that would help both health service providers and patients. - They are working with science and technology to improve and develop the latest advancements in health care.