Six Healthcare Careers You Didn’t Know About
The healthcare industry is so diverse, there are health care job opportunities popping up everywhere that you might have never thought of.
- Acupuncturist. Acupuncturists specialize in a form of holistic medicine with documented success dating back hundreds of years. Several acupuncturist schools are available to help get you started on one of the health care job opportunities of a lifetime.
- Personal Fitness Trainer. The personal fitness trainer focuses on a person’s physical health and well-being. This hands-on health care occupation requires minimal education and lots of interaction with other people.
- Pharmacy Technician. While several prospective health care students consider pharmacist positions, pharmacy technicians are moved to the side. Pharmacy technicians are the assistants to pharmacists and while they don’t hold as lucrative a position, it’s a career that can get off the ground in as little as a year!
- Physical Therapy Assistant. Like the pharmacy technician, the physical therapy assistant is a great way to enter a booming and high-paying field with minimal education requirements. Physical therapy assistants help with bodily well-being, but in a more medical environment than the personal fitness trainer.
- Medical Billing and Coding Specialist. If you haven’t heard about the medical billing and coding specialist yet, check out the Degrees In Healthcare blog article about Starting Your Medical Billing and Coding Career for more.
- Medical Records Management. If you’re looking at an MBA program, why not give it a focus in health care, one of the fastest growing industries in the United States? A medical records management degree is a great way to get started.
Interested in learning about any of these careers or the educational path to take you there? Feel free to comment!


