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Identify the initials of the following medical and allied health
professions. Write the letters on the space provided to find out
the topic for today. Choose the answer from words inside the box
below.
1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7.
Therapist Health information management Athletic Trainer Respiratory Therapy
Cardiovascular Technology Lactation Consultant Emergency Medical Technician
1 2 3 4 5 1 6 3 7 2 2 7
7. Formative Assessment:
a. After identifying and combining the initials,
what are the words that you have formed?
b. What do you think is our topic for today?
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9. Activity 1: Concept Mapping…..
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List down the words associated with the word “Health Career”
10. Questions:
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a. What are the words that you can associate with
health career?
b. How do you define health? How about Career?
c. What is health career then?
d. Can you recall on the health career profession that
was mentioned a while ago. What are those?
Analysis
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Medical and Allied Profession:
1. Health information
management
2. Emergency Medical
Technician
3. Athletic Trainer 4. Lactation Consultant
5. Therapist 6. Cardiovascular Technology 7. Respiratory Therapy
12. Questions:
a. Are you familiar with their jobs?
b. What do they undergo to become
like that?
c. What is the difference between
medical and allied health
profession?
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Difference between Medical and Allied Health
Profession
Medical Allied
1. Focuses heavily on diagnosing and curing
illnesses and injuries.
2. Group of individuals qualified to practice
medicine.
3. Play role in diagnosing illnesses with the
aim of treating symptoms and improving
patient health and fall into categories of
general medicine, dental medicine and
pharmacy.
4. These professionals draw their
knowledge from biology, pharmacology
and medical research and some roles-
especially surgery-can take up to 15
years to complete.
1. Focus more on prevention and recovery
methods
2. Lines of work that deal with healthcare
but are distinct from medicine.
3. Offers a range of career options that don’t
require a medical degree, which are
suitable for high school graduates and
people seeking a career change.
4. Possible education routes include short
certification programs, associate degree
programs, 4-year degree, or even on-the-
job training.
14. Questions:
d. Do you want to become like them? Which one do
you like to be: medical or allied profession?
e. If so, what should you do then to become like them?
f. How do you think planning will help you in reaching
your goals?
h. How do you make a good health career plan?
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Planning is bringing
the future into the
present so that you
can do something
about it now.
ALAN LAKEIN
Abstraction:
16. Health career planning refers
to an individual’s plan to make a
career choice, growing in the
chosen career or making a career
shift. Career planning involves
very important steps.
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17. Components and steps in making a health career plan
Self-assessment
Career
Exploration
Decision
Making
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Plan of Action
18. Self-Assessment
- is necessary to understand one’s
capabilities and drawbacks. The various
career options should be explored in
detail to find a fit between one’s abilities
and the opportunities provided by a
career option. It involves continuous
learning and improvement to build and
grow in the chosen career path.
- gives one an opportunity to discover
personal strength (values, interests,
personality, testing, skills and etc.)
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19. Career Exploration
- enables you to explore different careers
and work environments through career
fairs, online research, meetings
internships, alumni connections and
professional resources by these, it enables
you also to gain valuable insight into
potential careers, what skills are necessary
and what routes you can take to reach you
goals. With this information, you can
imagine yourselves in the workforce and
make informed decisions both during and
after your academic careers.
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20. Decision Making
- before you decide on taking a career that works for
you, you can evaluate and narrow down your options
through listing the pros and cons, comparing your
personal strengths and interests, and deciding which
career fulfills both current and future goals.
- in this process you need to ask yourself what career
you like the most after experiencing the real
situation of the certain career you tried. You need to
think if you are really interested in doing that certain
job . And lastly, think if is still fulfill your goals in life.
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21. Plan of Action
- is a roadmap that will take you from Point A
(choosing an occupation) to Point B (getting a
job and advancing in your career). Also referred
to as an Individualized (or Individual) Career
Plan it will help you reach your career goals.
- enables you to plan achievable goals and
develop strategies to reach your goals, organize
your goals into smaller steps, identify actions
for each step, utilize helpful people and
resources, review and adapt your plan regularly.
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Assessment
IDENTIFICATION: (Collaborative) Each group will be given manila paper in which the are going to write
their answers.
A. Identify the words of group of words describe by each statement. Write your answer on the space
provided before each number
________________1. It is occupation or profession that requires special training.
________________2. This is exploring different careers and working environment.
________________3. It helps you to discover your personal strengths, interest, skill, and
your personality.
________________4. It was designed to familiarize students with various medical career and
profession.
________________5. This is evaluating and narrowing down your options through listing
pros and cons and comparing your personal strengths and interests.
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SA – Self
Assessment
CE – Career
Exploration
DM –
Decision
Making
PA – Plan of
Action.
1. Divine loves reading medical books especially if it’s about mental health. She
wants to help people that suffering from mental illness.
2. Marc wants to become a chef. He attended workshops and seminars about
cooking and work on a restaurant as assistant cook during his first year in
college.
3. Jon came from poor family and can’t afford to enroll him in college. But
Jon wants to become a teacher. He was planning to work while studying
and applying to some scholarship program for him to take the that he wants.
4. Christian was confused in the course that she will take after graduation, she
wants to become an architect and a broadcaster. After assessing her own
skills and interest she chooses architecture over broadcasting.
5. Anne thinks that she is good at handling stressful situations and always
fascinated on how human body work. She like to save life and help people with
diseases and disabilities.
B. Identify which steps in career planning are applicable in the given
situation. You will only write the given initials as the answer.
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Assignment
Write your insights on how you see yourself as an
individual who is working for their career today, after
senior high school and after college. Plot your insights
on the table below.
How do see yourself
….. today ….. after Senior
High School
….. After College
Health care, nutritionist, health practitioners, Social worker, medicine, therapist, radiologist, health consultants, pharmacists and other profession related to health.
Health care, nutritionist, health practitioners, Social worker, medicine, therapist, radiologist, health consultants, pharmacists and other profession related to health.
Health a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity
Career- is an occupation or profession that requires special training.
c. Health Career, careers in the medical profession and allied services.
Answers:
Varies
Schooling/ training
Answers on the next slide
Ask: Which of the professions mentioned a while ago connected to medical health? Which of those are allied health profession?
Answers:
d. Answers vary
e. Make a plan of action.
f. Planning helps us to be accountable for what we do. Planning helps us decide how best to use our resources (people, time, money, information, equipment) so that they make the most significant contribution to achieving our goal. Planning lays the basis for us to assess and evaluate our achievements effectively.