Health

• Health Career Categories


  • Medical and other Allied Health Professionals
  • Health Professionals & Healthcare Workers
  • Wellness and Prevention of Illnesses
• Personal Skills for Health Careers

  • Decision Making
  • Problem Solving
  • Stress Management
• Awareness for Health Careers

  • Legal Responsibilities
  • Ethical Responsibilities
  • Cultural Considerations
• Offers in Health Careers

  • Good Salary
  • Job Security
  • Make a Difference
• Health Career Plan


  Individual action or initiative in making career choice
• Health Career Planning

  Process of creating an individual's plan to make a career choice
• Doctor | Physician


  • Treats Ailments
  • Prescribes Medication
• Nurse

  • Assists Physicians
  • Administers Medication
  • Takes Samples & Keeps Records
• Dentist


  • Dental Health
  • Oral Problems
• Dietician


  • Conditions on Nutrition
  • Advice on Nutrition
  • Personalized Dietary Interventions
• Paramedic


  • Initial Treatment
  • Healthcare on Emergencies
  • Driving Emergency Vehicles
• Speech and Language Therapist


  • Speaking Difficulties
  • Issues on Swallowing, Eating & Drinking
• Biomedical Scientist


  • Tests on Samples
  • Helps to Diagnose and Treat Illnesses
• Microbiologist


  • Researches on Infectious Diseases
  • Identifies Pathogens
  • Develops and Tests Medicines
• Toxicologist


  • Explores How Chemicals and New Medicines Affect Humans, Animals, and the Environment
• Biomedical Engineer


  • Develops Equipment
• Clinical Technologist


  • Operates Devices on Healthcare
• Information Analyst


  • Analyzes the Facts on Healthcare
• Hard Skills


  • Job-Dependent
• Soft Skills


  • Communication
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Adaptability
  • Collaboration
• Medicine is one of the oldest and most respected career paths
• Pharmacy (Pharmacist)


  • Four-year pre-med course
  • Medicinal drugs, cosmetics
  • Process of manufacturing drugs
• Nursing (Nurse)


  • Four Main Components: Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, Risk Reduction, Health Restoration
• Biology (Biologist)


  • Concepts, principles, and theories of biological, natural, and physical sciences
  • Research Scientist, Biology Teacher, Biologist at Forensic Scientist
• Medical Technology (Medical Technologist)


  • Four-year degree
  • Laboratory tests on Urine, blood
• Radiologic Technology (Radiologic Technologist)


  • Imaging examinations to patients
  • Operating Medical Equipment like CT scanners, MRIs, and X-rays
• Psychology (Psychologist)


  • Scientific approach
  • Human behavior
  • Mental, emotional health
  • Safe space to express feelings
  • Psychological treatments
• Psychiatry (Psychiatrist)


  • Medical doctor
  • Wide range of treatments like Medication, general medical care, brain stimulation therapies
• Nutrition and Dietetics (Nutritionist and Dietetian)


  • Provide information on food and healthy eating
  • How diet affects health and wellbeing
  • Working in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, cafeterias