Fifty Jobs Available in the Health Care Industry
For students interested in pursuing a degree in healthcare, familiarizing yourself with all the occupations available in the healthcare industry is quintessential. Degrees in Healthcare’s blog invites you to peruse through these fifty potential jobs available in healthcare and determine which one is best for you. At Degrees in Healthcare, you can find the ideal degree in healthcare to match your future professional goal.
- Audiologist
- Biotechnician
- Chiropractor
- Clinical Social Worker
- Counselor
- Dental Assistant
- Dental Hygienist
- Dentist
- Diagnostic Medical Sonographer
- Dietitian
- Doctor (general or specialist)
- Environmental Health Specialist
- Executives – CEO, CFO, CIO
- Health Informatics
- Healthcare Administrative Assistant
- Healthcare Management
- Home Health Aide
- Hospital Cafeteria
- Hospital Gift Shop
- Hospital Receptionist
- Human Resources and Recruitment
- Information Technician
- Lab Technician, Dental
- Lab Technician, Medical
- Labor and Delivery – Healthcare-related goods
- Massage Therapy
- Medical and Dental Specialist
- Medical Assisting
- Medical Billing and Coding
- Medical Transcriber
- Mortician
- Nuclear Medicine Technologist
- Nursing, Registered
- Nursing Aid
- Occupational Therapist
- Optometrist
- Optometry Assistant
- Paramedic
- Personal Care Aid
- Pharmacist
- Physical Therapist
- Physical Therapy Assistant
- Podiatrist
- Psychiatric Aid
- Psychiatrist
- Psychologist
- Public Health
- Radiologist
- Speech-language Pathologist
- Surgical Technologist
Not sure what half of these occupations entail? For more information about the health care industry and the jobs available–including how many positions are available for each job title and the current projected growth rate for each job title–visit the Bureau of Labor Statistics section on healthcare. You can see projected salaries, job descriptions, and higher education requirements for all of these potential jobs in an exciting and rapidly growing industry. The healthcare industry is expected to skyrocket in employment as the “baby boomer” generation continues to age (the eldest of the baby boomers will be 65 years old in 2010.)
