Education

1. PLANNING FOR A
HEALTH CAREER

2. CONCEPT MAPPING
Direction: List as may words associated with the word
“Health Career”
HEALTH CAREER

3. Directions: How many allied health
professions are you familiar with? List all
the allied health professions that you are
familiar with.

4. YOU’LL MAKE A
DIFFERRENCE IN
PEOPLE’S LIVES…

5. CAREER
 Is an occupation
or profession that
requires special
training.

6. HEALTH CAREER
 Designed to familiarize students
with the various careers in the
medical profession and allied health
services.

7. PLAN OF ACTION
What will I do to meet my
goal/s?

8. WHY PURSUE A HEALTH CAREER?
 Good salary
 Job security
 Do work that interests you.
 Find a health career that fits
your educational plans
 A career path to advancement
 Work with people ( or not)
Why pursue a health
career?

10. What are the
components and
steps in making a
health career plan?

11. SELF ASSESSMENT
Discover your personal
strengths through self-
assessments ( values,
interests, personality, testing,
skills, etc.)

12. CAREER EXPLORATION
You can explore different
careers and work
environments through
career fairs, online
research, meetings,
internships, alumni

13. 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 fulfils both current and future goals.

14. PLAN OF ACTION
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.

15. 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 involve the very
important step of self-assessment.
Self-assessment is necessary to
understand one’s capabilities and
drawbacks.

16. ACTIVITY: MY HEALTH CAREER
PLAN
DIRECTION: Write your own health career plan
using the components and steps.
MY CARRER GOALS
Self Assessment:
Career Exploration:
Decision Making:
My Plan Action:

17. HEALTH CAREER PATHWAYS

18. Why Do You
Need to
Understand
Health Career
Pathways?
Makes it easier for
you to identify
health career
professions
Assists you in
choosing a
health career
Helps you develop a
plan on how to
prepare for your
chosen health
career

19. What are examples of
health career pathways?

20. Disease Prevention and
Control
People who specialize in this career path
focus on communicable and non-
communicable disease. Their work
includes immunization, screening
Ex: Community Health Work
Education and Research

21. Personal Healthcare
Professionals in this field perform
healthcare related tasks in a personal
care level. These include monitoring
patients, administering and assisting in
personal care and hygiene; performing
housekeeping duties; and advising
clients on related healthcare issues like
infant care, hygiene and nutrition.

22. Maternal and Child Care
These health workers deal with complex public
health issues that affect women, children and
their families. These include providing
information on reproductive health, family
planning, healthcare of pregnant women and
their children, and improvement of delivery
system through advocacy, education and
research.
Ex; Midwifery, Community Health Educator,
Outreach Specialist

23. Mental HealthCare
 These medical professionals specialize in dealing with
interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships and life
skills. These include cognitive and psychosocial
development, promotion of healthy self-esteem
through feelings and anger management and
identifying warning signs or red flags of learning
disorders, such as ADHD, anxiety, mood disorders,
stress, and bullying.
 Ex; Social work, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry,
Guidance Counselling.

24. Community Healthcare
Specialists in this area focus on the
maintenance, protection, and
improvement of the health of all
community members.
Ex;Barangay/Community Health Work
Rural Sanitary Inspection

25. Environmental Healthcare
Management
 These health workers try to establish the correlation
between and among the physical, chemical, biological,
social and psychosocial factors in the surrounding
environment. These include monitoring the quality of
environment and impact of human activities on
ecosystems, and developing strategies for restoring
ecosystems.
 Ex; Air quality monitoring, Soil science analysis,
hazardous and solid waste management,
Environmental and noise control, Radiological
assessment.

26. Drug prevention and Control
 People whose careers revolve around this area seek to
reduce community and individual problems related to
alcohol and drug abuse through evidence-based
programs and policy advocacy.
 Ex; Drug Enforcement and Drug and Alcohol
Rehabilitation

27. Nutrition
Specialist in this area find ways to
balance individuals’ food and nutrition
and their impact on patients’ health.
These include meal planning, food
preparation and economics.
Ex; Clinical Dietetics, Food and Nutrition
Management, Public Health Nutrition,
Education and Research.

28. Health Education
 Those who work in this field are tasked with promotion
of healthcare and training of health workers on
managing change in healthcare. Their work involves
assessing individual and community needs, planning,
implementing and evaluating health programs,
promoting the understanding of various health-related
behaviors plus coordinating health education services.
 Ex; education and research, Community health Work

29. Dental Health
Dental Health workers deal with various oral
conditions which include chronic mouth and
facial pain, oral sores, periodontal ( gum)
disease, tooth decay and tooth loss, other
diseases and disorders that affect the oral
cavity, and risk factors for oral diseases which
include unhealthy diet, tobacco use, harmful
alcohol use, and poor oral hygiene.
Ex; Dental Hygiene, Dental Nursing and Dental
Health support,

30. Occupational Safety
Careers in this path are related to the safety,
health and welfare of people engaged in work
or employment. These include protecting
workers from sickness, disease, and injury
arising from possible hazards of their
employment and workplace
Ex; Occupational Health and Safety
Technician, Health Inspector and Industrial
health Hygienist

31. Emergency Medical Services
 People assigned in this work specialize in out-
of-hospital medical care. Their skills include
first –aid procedures, emergency medical
treatment and transport of patients, rapid
emergency medical and immediate medical
attention
 Ex; Emergency Medical Aid
 Paramedic

32. Medical and Allied
Health Professions

33. Who are the medical and allied
health professionals?
Medical Profession is a group of
individuals qualified to practice medicine.
Allied health professionals are healthcare
practitioners with formal education and
clinical training credentials through
certification, registration and/or licensure.

34. What are the allied
professionals that we
have in the Philippines?

35. Audiologist
Identifies and
rehabilitates
hearing
impairments
and related
disorders

36. Chiropractor
Diagnoses and
treats
neuromuscular
disorders, with
emphasis on
treatment through
manual
adjustment and/or
manipulation of
the spine.

37. Clinical Psychologist
Assesses,
diagnoses,
treats and
helps prevent
mental
disorders.

38. Dietician/Nutritionist
Promotes
good health
through
proper diet
and treatment
of disease

39. Emergency Medical Technician
 Also known as
ambulance
technician; responds
quickly to any
emergency and life-
threatening situation
to immediately treat
serious injuries,
physical or mental
trauma to increase
patient’s chances of
survival

40. Guidance Counsellor
Assists students with
personal, family,
education, and
career decisions and
concerns; also helps
them develop job-
finding skills and
other life skills
needed to prevent
and deal with
problems

41. Health Educator
Specializes in
health education
and promotes the
development of
health knowledge,
life skills, and
positive attitudes
toward the health
and well-being of
students

42. Massage Therapist
 Performs scientific
manipulation of the
soft tissues of the
body for the purpose
of normalizing those
tissues; uses manual
techniques that
include applying
fixed or movable
pressure on affected
parts of the body

43. Medical Assistant
Performs, under
the direction of a
physician, various
routine
administrative and
nontechnical
clinical tasks in
hospitals, clinics,
and other similar
facilities

44. Medical Technologist
 Performs a variety of
tasks on body fluids,
from simple blood tests
to more complex tests
to uncover
abnormalities in the
body , and underlying
causes of illnesses,
such as HIV/AIDS,
diabetes, and cancer
which are not easily
detected through
physical examination.

45. Midwife
Professionals with the
expertise and skills in
helping women
maintain healthy
pregnancies, assist in
or perform childbirth
delivery, and help in
women’s recovery
process through the
postpartum period.

46. Nurse
 Trained to provide
care for people who
are sick or injured;
monitors patients’
health and records
symptoms, assists
physicians during
examinations and
treatment, and
administer
medications.

47. Occupational Therapist
Uses purposeful
activity and
interventions to
maximize the
independence and
health of any client
who is limited by
physical injury or
illness, cognitive
impairment, or
learning disability

48. Orthotist/Prosthetist
Makes and
fits
prosthetics
or artificial
parts for the
human
body

49. Paramedic
Gives
emergency
medical
treatment or
assists medical
professionals in
emergency
situations

50. Radiologic Technologist/
Radiographer  Healthcare
professionals who
perform imaging
procedures, such as x-
ray examinations,
Magnetic Resonance
Imaging ( MRI) scans
and Computed
Tomography ( CT)
scans

51. Physical Therapist
Examines, evaluates,
and treats physical
impairments through
use of special
exercise, application
of heat or cold, and
other physical
modalities

52. Speech Language
Pathologist
Diagnoses and
treats patients
with functional
and organic
speech defects
and disorders

53. Phlebotomist
Professionals
with special
training in
phlebotomy or
drawing blood
from patients

54. Radiation Therapist
 Administers radiation
therapy services to
patients and observes
patients during
treatment; other duties
may include tumor
localization, patient
follow-up, patient
education, and record
keeping

55. Respiratory Therapist
Specializes in the
promotion of
optimum
cardiopulmonary
function and
health; regularly
deals with various
chronic respiratory
diseases, such as
asthma and
emphysema

56. Social Worker
 Investigates, treats,
gives aid to people
with mental illness,
serious health
conditions, financial
difficulties, substance
abuse problems,
domestic, or child
abuse, unwanted
pregnancy and other
social problems

57. Medical Professions

58. Cardiovascular
Technologist
Uses imaging
technology to help
physicians
diagnose patients
with cardiac (
heart) and
peripheral
vascular ( blood
vessel) ailments

59. Clinical Officer
 Performs general
medical duties such as
diagnosis and treatment
of disease and injury,
recommendation and
interpretation of medical
tests, performance of
routine medical and
surgical procedures and
referral of patients to
other practitioners

60. Dental Hygienist
Specializes in the
removal of calcaneus
deposits and stains
from patients’ and
provides additional
services and
information on
prevention of oral
diseases

61. Diagnostic Medical
Sonographist
Uses ultrasonic
imaging devices
to produce
diagnostic
images, scan,
videos, or 3D
volumes of
patients’ anatomy

62. Kinesiotherapist
Develops and
monitors
exercise
programs to
help people
regain muscle
strength and
function lost due
to injury or
disease.

63. Neurophysiologist
 Specializes in the
diagnosis of
conditions affecting
the nervous system
such as
neuromuscular
diseases, epilepsy,
and nerve
entrapments.

64. Medical Dosimetrist
 Designs treatment
plans for patients by
means of computer
and/ or manual
computation to
determine a
treatment field
technique that will
deliver the
prescribed radiation
dose while taking
into consideration
the dose-limiting

65. Medical Radiation Scientist
Performs
complex
diagnostic
imaging studies
on patients and
plans and
administers
radiation
treatments

66. Music Therapist  Uses music within a
therapeutic relationships
to address a client’s
needs, such as
facilitating movement
and physical
rehabilitation, motivating
the client to cope with
treatment, providing
emotional support, such
as an outlet for
expressing their feelings
through music

67. Nuclear Medicine Technologist
 Performs imaging
procedures using
radioactive drugs and
materials t make
diagnostic evaluations
of the anatomic or
physiologic conditions of
the patient’s body, and
facilitates therapy with
the use of unsealed
radioactive sources

68. Optalmologist Investigates,
diagnoses and treats
defects of binocular
vision and
abnormalities related
to eye movement;
involves seeing
patients of all ages
from infants to
elderly

69. Orthoptist
Are foot orthotic
and orthopedic
footwear experts
trained in the
assessment of
lower limb
anatomy and
muscle and joint
function

70. Perfusionist
 Assists in performing
procedures that
involve
extracorporeal
circulation, such as
during open-heart
surgery or
hypothermia

71. Surgical Technologist
A member of
the surgical
team who
serves as a
scrub
technician or
as a circulator

72. Pediatrician
Specialist in
pediatrics
A medical
practitioner
specializing in
children and
their diseases

73. Geriatrician
A specialist in
Gerontology
A Specialist
for old people
and their
diseases

74. Pulmonologist
A specialist in
the anatomy,
physiology,
and pathology
of the lungs

75. Dermatologist One who
discourses on
the skin and
its diseases
One verst in
dermatology.

76. Orthopedist One who
prevents, cures,
or remedies
deformities
specially in
children

77. Cardiologist
The one who
specializes in
Cardiology
(heart
diseases.)

78. Find the words being asked
through crossword puzzle with
the use of hints
Use 1 whole sheet of paper.