🩺 Therapeutic Services
This pathway focuses on direct patient care over time.
What is Therapeutic Services?
This pathway uses tests and imaging to find health problems.
What is Diagnostic Services?
This pathway focuses on records, data, and patient information.
What is Health Informatics?
This pathway focuses on safety, cleanliness, and supplies in healthcare.
What is Support Services?
This pathway focuses on research and new treatments.
What is Biotechnology Research & Development?
A professional who helps patients recover movement after an injury.
Who is a Physical Therapist?
This career takes blood samples from patients.
Who is a Phlebotomist?
This professional assigns codes to medical procedures for billing.
Who is a Medical Coder?
This career sterilizes and distributes medical instruments.
Who is a Central Supply Technician?
This scientist studies genes and heredity.
Who is a Geneticist?
This person helps people with speech or swallowing problems.
Who is a Speech-Language Pathologist?
This technician uses sound waves to take internal images.
Who is an Ultrasound Technician?
This person registers patients when they arrive at a hospital.
Who is an Admitting Clerk?
Which support role ensures hospital equipment is repaired and working? (Answer: Who is a Biomedical Equipment Technician?)
Who is a Biomedical Equipment Technician?
This scientist studies bacteria and viruses.
Who is a Microbiologist?
True/False – Dentists are in the Support Services pathway.
False – They are in Therapeutic Services
Which diagnostic professional studies tissues to diagnose diseases?
Who is a Pathologist?
Which career types up notes dictated by doctors?
Who is a Medical Transcriptionist?
True/False – A Dietary Aide belongs to Health Informatics.
False – Support Services
This professional manages medical research trials.
Who is a Clinical Research Coordinator?
Give one example of a career in this pathway that works in an emergency setting.
EMT or Paramedic
Name two imaging-related careers in this pathway.
Radiology Technician, MRI Technologist, Ultrasound Technician, Nuclear Medicine Tech
Give one example of a career in this pathway that directly helps patients understand their care.
Who is a Patient Advocate?
Name one Support Services career that works closely with patients but does not provide medical care.
Who is a Transport Aide or Interpreter?
Which biotechnology career studies how diseases spread in a population?
Who is an Epidemiologist?