on-the-job training or <Associate degree
This career involves drawing blood specimens from patients in offices, clinics, and hospitals.
What is a phlebotomist?
This health care providers work under the direction of physicians and provide total care to patients (assessment of patients, starts IVs, draws blood, administers medications, dressing changes, education of patients, etc...)
What is a registered nurse?
This career works with athletes, preventing and treating sports-related injuries.
What is an athletic trainer?
This health care professional must work under a physician. They can examine, diagnose, and prescribe medications and treatments for patients.
What is a physician assistant?
doctors who diagnose and treat diseases and abnormalities of the teeth
What is a dentist?
This career involves performing EKGs on patients in hospitals, clinics, and offices.
What is an EKG technician?
Working under a physician's orders, these professionals treat patients with lung diseases by administering oxygen, drawing blood gases, administering inhaled medications, and performing respiratory diagnostic tests.
What is a respiratory therapist?
This career involves the invention/development of medical devices and equipment that are used in laboratories and hospitals
What is a biomedical engineer?
This advanced-practice nursing specialty provides gynecological and obstetric care to women; they can deliver babies.
What is a nurse midwife?
healthcare professional who diagnoses and treats a wide variety of medical conditions in animals
What is a veterinarian?
This health informatics career works within the billing department of offices/hospitals. They assign codes to treatments, assuring that physicians and hospitals are accurately reimbursed by insurance companies
What is a medical coder?
Working under the supervision of radiologists, these professionals use x-rays, ultrasounds, MRIs, and CAT scans to provide medical images.
What is a radiologic technologist?
This career involves planning therapeutic diets for patients/clients.
What is a dietician or nutritionist?
This rehabilitative professional works with patients with speech and/or swallowing difficulties.
What is a speech therapist?
These health care professionals use exercise, heat, cold, ultrasounds, massage, etc... to help clients achieve their optimum physical functioning. They may work under the direction of a physiatrist or have their own private practices.
What is a physical therapist?
This career involves the use of a computer and word-processing software to enter data that has been dictated on a recorder by physicians or other health care professionals.
What is a medical transcriptionist?
working under the supervision of a pathologist, these professionals perform a variety of laboratory tests on blood and tissue samples
What is a medical/clinical laboratory technologist?
This professional works within the fields of health/human services. They help people make life adjustments and refer patients to community resources for assistance
What is a social worker?
This healthcare professional assesses patients and develops plans to help individuals perform their activities of daily living (ADLs).
What is an occupational therapist?
These professionals dispense medications per written orders from physicians. They also educate people about the medications that have been prescribed.
What is a pharmacist?
What is a surgical scrub technician?
This career is the highest level of EMT training. These professionals can assess and treat emergency conditions in the pre-hospital setting. They can perform/read EKGs, insert chest tubes, and intubate patients.
What is a paramedic?
In the operating room, this professional operates the heart/lung bypass machine during open-heart surgeries.
What is a perfusionist?
This advanced-practice nurse administers anesthesia, monitors patients during surgery, and assists anesthesiologists.
What is a CRNA (nurse anesthetist)?
This type of physician specializes in the treatment of infants and children.
What is a pediatrician?