Healthcare Fields
PLEASE NOTE:
This website provides information on a wide range of health careers, without labeling any one as more "scientific" or prestigious than another. The best healthcare is provided by a whole team of practitioners, in which each individual plays an integral and equally important role.
Allied Health Professions
From Speech Pathologist to Registered Dietitian, there are literally hundreds of different careers in Allied Health.
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Arts & Humanities in Health
Surprisingly enough, a background in the arts and humanities can prepare you well for the field of health; in addition, a number of health professions are specifically tied to the arts.
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Complementary & Alternative Medicine
Heath careers in the CAM field take a wholistic approach to care, place a high value on the body's ability to heal itself, and often use "hands on" techniques that are rooted in age-old traditions.
You can download, save and print a PDF of this overview:
Complementary and Alternaative Medicine Overview 14 May 2008 [pdf, 210 KB]
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Dentistry
Advances in research, the discovery of links between oral and systemic diseases, and the development of new materials and techniques make dentistry an exciting and rewarding profession.
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Environmental Health
The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat, the places we work, and the homes we live in – all aspects of our natural and man-made environment – have an impact on our health. Environmental health professionals work to improve public health by identifying, tracking and addressing environmental risk factors.
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Forensic Science
Advances in technology and greater reliance by courts on forensic expertise make this an exciting and ever-changing field.
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Health Administration/Management
Healthcare is a business and, like every other business, it needs good management to keep it running smoothly. An estimated 100,000 people work in health administration or management today.
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Informatics
People in this rapidly growing field understand how to acquire, analyze, store, manage, retrieve and use a wide range of information about health and medicine.
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Medicine
Physicians (M.D.s/D.O.s) diagnose illness and injury, prescribe and administer treatment, and advise patients about how to prevent and manage disease.
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Mental Health
Mental health a broad field with a wide range of careers, all of which involve advising patients or clients to promote their optimum mental health, with an emphasis upon prevention.
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Nursing
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Registered Nursing is among the Top Ten Occupations with the Largest Job Growth.
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Nutrition/Dietetics
Dietetics is the health field that focuses on the interaction between nutrition and health. Dieticians and dietetic technicians design “nutrition therapies” that help the body use the natural nutrients and properties in food to protect against disease and promote health.
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Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy helps people who are physically challenged to develop the skills they need to live independent and satisfying lives.
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Optometry
Optometry involves virtually everything that has to do with eyes and vision, including examination, diagnosis, and treatment of the eyes and surrounding structures.
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Pharmacy
As "medication experts," pharmacists play a vital role in improving patient care through the medicine and information they provide.
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Physical Therapy
Physical therapy professionals work closely with patients of all ages, to help them recover from and/or manage a wide variety of physical challenges.
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Podiatric Medicine
For more information on careers in this field, click on the appropriate profession(s) in the Career Explorer section of this site.
Podiatry is a field of medicine that strives to improve the overall health and well-being of patients by focusing on preventing, diagnosing, and treating conditions associated with the foot and ankle. A doctor of podiatric medicine is to the foot what a dentist is to the mouth or an ophthalmologist to the eye.
You can download, save and print a PDF of this overview:
Podiatric Medicine Overview 14 May 2008 [pdf, 164 KB]
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Public Health
From air pollution engineer, bacteriologist, and biochemist, to epidemiologist and vital statistics director, careers in the field of Public Health are as intriguing as they are varied.
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Speech-Language-Hearing
Professionals in this field help patients deal with a broad range of disabilities and conditions related speech delays or difficulties and hearing loss or limitations.
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Veterinary Medicine
Veterinarians are best known for healing ill and injured animals, but helping all kinds of creatures live longer, better lives is not all veterinarians do.
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