What is my job (day-in-the-life)
This dental professional does routine cleanings and exams but can't do fillings, extractions, or other dentist-only procedures.
dental hygienist
This advanced-practice nurse focuses on prenatal care and delivering babies.
What is a Certified Nurse-Midwife?
This professional helps patients regain movement and manage pain after an injury or surgery.
What is a physical therapist?
This professional creates meal plans for patients with conditions like diabetes or kidney disease
What is a registered dietitian?
a specialized healthcare professional who prepares and administers radioactive drugs (radiopharmaceuticals) to patients to help physicians diagnose and treat medical conditions.
Nuclear Medicine Technologist
This provider can diagnose, treat, and prescribe medication while working under a physician's supervision.
Who is a Physician Assistant (PA)?
This professional performs laboratory tests on blood, tissue, and other body samples to help diagnose diseases.
Medical Laboratory Scientist
This professional treats speech, language, and swallowing disorders in both children and adults.
What is a speech-language pathologist?
This professional helps patients and families navigate insurance, housing, and emotional support after a difficult diagnosis.
What is a medical social worker?
This professional checks prescriptions for dangerous drug interactions and counsels patients on how to take their medication.
What is a pharmacist?
This eye-care professional examines, diagnoses, and treats vision problems and prescribes glasses or contacts, but doesn't perform eye surgery.
Who is a optometrist?
This professional uses data and technology to improve patient records and healthcare delivery systems.
Who is a health informaticist?
This professional helps people relearn daily tasks like dressing, cooking, and writing after an injury or illness.
What is an occupational therapist?
This professional works directly within local neighborhoods to bridge cultural gaps and connect residents to healthcare services and local resources."
What is a Community Health Worker
Specialize exclusively in treating life-threatening chest injuries and diseases, performing minimally invasive chest wall reconstructions and lung resections.
What is a Thoracic Surgeon?
This professional operates the heart-lung bypass machine during open-heart surgery, keeping blood circulating while the heart is stopped
Who is a Perfusionist?
A professional who translates complex medical information into visual formats for textbooks, public health campaigns, and more.
Who is a Medical Illustrator
This specialist fits and prepares artificial limbs or braces for patients with physical impairments.
What is a prosthetist/orthotist
This professional explains inherited conditions and genetic test results to patients and families.
What is a genetic counselor?
This professional is responsible for performing many procedures, including oral surgery to remove impacted or diseased teeth. They also treat problems related to the mouth, jaws, face, head, and neck by using bone grafting techniques to increase the amount of bone available for other surgeons to operate on.
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon
This professional performs ultrasounds to check on babies during pregnancy and other diagnostic imaging using sound waves.
Who is a sonographer?
A medical doctor who manage astronaut lifecycle health, fitness assessments, and emergency response protocols.
Who is a Space Medicine Flight Surgeon
Assess, diagnose, and treat a wide range of mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, phobias, and addiction.
What is a behavioral therapist?
This professional studies patterns of disease in whole communities, often working on outbreaks and prevention.
What is an epidemiologist?
This advanced-practice nurse puts patients to sleep for surgery and monitors them throughout the procedure.
What is a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)?