Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses in health specialties, in fields such as dentistry, laboratory technology, medicine, pharmacy, public health, therapy, and veterinary medicine.

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

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Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Second Interest High-Point

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

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Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed

Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.

Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.

Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.

Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.

Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.

Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.

Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.

Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.

Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.

Select and obtain materials and supplies, such as textbooks and laboratory equipment.

Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.

Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.

Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.

Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.

Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.

Participate in campus and community events.

Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as public health, stress management, and work site health promotion.

Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.

Write grant proposals to procure external research funding.

Act as advisers to student organizations.

Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.

Provide professional consulting services to government or industry.

3D movement analysis systems

Agar slides

Automated ESR analyzers

Back support braces

Balance boards

Biohazard containers

Blood culture incubators

Cardiac monitors

Carousel slide projectors

Casting ovens

Cell washing equipment

Cervical traction units

Coagulation testing equipment

Colorimetric devices

Compact digital cameras

Compact disk CD players

Computer data input scanners

Computer laser printers

Computer projectors

Conference telephones

Crash carts

Crutches

Curing lights

Dental air water syringes

Dental amalgamation equipment

Dental handpieces

Dental laboratory lathes

Dental laboratory model trimmers

Dental laser equipment

Dental patient chairs

Dental suction units

Desktop computers

Digital calculators

Digital imaging workstations

Digital medical thermometers

Digital refractometers

Digital video cameras

Digital video disk DVD players

Diode lasers

Electric stimulation machines

Electrocardiography EKG machines

Electromyography EMG systems

Electrosurgery devices

Emergency eyewash stations

Emergency first aid kits

Equipment dollies

Ergometers

Exercise trampolines

Flat panel c-arms

Flow hoods

Force measurement plates

Free weights

Fume hoods

Functional electrical stimulation FES equipment

Gait analysis equipment

Gait belts

General purpose laboratory test tubes

Goniometers

Graduated glass cylinders

Hand grips

Handheld microphones

Hemacytometers

Hematology test kits

High-lo manipulation tables

High-voltage galvanic stimulation machines

Hospital beds

Hoyer lifts

Hypodermic syringes

Immuno-chemistry analyzers

Interactive whiteboard controllers

Interactive whiteboards

Intraoperative ultrasound monitors

Intraoral cameras

Isokinetic lower body testing machines

Isokinetic upper body testing machines

Knee support braces

Laboratory balances

Laboratory heating blocks

Laboratory osmometers

Laboratory vortex mixers

Laboratory water baths

Laptop computers

Large animal gamma cameras

Large bore computed tomography CT scanners

Large bore positron emission tomography PET scanners

Laser facsimile machines

Laser scanning confocal microscopes

Lead aprons

Liquid crystal display LCD projectors

Liquid crystal display LCD televisions

Lumbar corsets

Mechanical stethoscopes

Medical linear accelerators

Medical measuring tapes

Medical picture archiving computer systems PACS

Medicine balls

Micro-etchers

Microcryostats

Microdissection systems

Microhematocrit centrifuges

Program Director

I heard early on in my undergraduate education that I did not have the work ethic necessary to complete a doctoral program.

Bob Vega

Program Director

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Education

Medicine

Accomplishing Goals

Recommended Education

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Teachers:

Bob Vega

Program Director

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Education

Medicine

Accomplishing Goals

Recommended Education

My career is related to what I studied. I'd recommend the path I took:

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Teachers:

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