Health Career Resources

“Is a Health Career Right for You?”: 

www.explorehealthcareers.org/en/Page.IsAHealthCareerRight.aspx

Health and Medical Science Careers by the minimum level of formal education needed to enter the field: 

www.science.education.nih.gov/LifeWorks.nsf/education.htm

“Stepping Stones”(a number of healthcare careers can serve as pathway to higher level positions through additional education or certification): 

www.fastweb.com/fastweb/resources/articles/index/104708

Professional Schools in Texas for Health Careers: 

www.unt.edu/taahp/content/professi.htm

Video clips of almost 70 different careers in Healthcare (most are one to two minutes in length)

www.careervoyages.gov/healthcare-videos.cfm

America’s Career Infonet

(The occupations that are projected to grow the fastest during the 2006-2016 time period.  11 out of 20 are careers in Healthcare)

www.acinet.org/acinet/oview1.asp?next=oview1&Level=Overall&optstatus=&jobfam=&id=1&nodeid=3&soccode=&stfips=00&ShowAll=

“Does Education Pay?” (The link between education level, unemployment rate, and  pay)

http://www.careervoyages.gov/students-doeseducationpay.cfm

Aspiring Docs

Produced by the American Association of Medical Colleges, this is a campaign to increase diversity in Medicine.

While racial and ethnic minorities make up 25 percent of the United States population, only 12 percent of students

graduating from our nation's medical schools are from these groups.

http://www.aspiringdocs.org/site/c.luIUL9MUJtE/b.2011035/apps/lk/content3.aspx

FastWeb, the Internet's leading scholarship search service, helps students make the decisions that shape their lives: c

hoosing a college, paying for college, and finding jobs and internships, all free of charge.

http://www.fastweb.com/