Healthcare Careers

Career Sites
  • Exploring Careers in Health Science
    A 4-minute video introduction to the different careers in the medical field. When we think of the medical field, we often think of doctors and nurses, but there are other careers that play a vital role in the health and science career cluster. Education requirements vary, but no matter the specialty, the healthcare field allows you to work with people on a daily basis. (WPBS).
  • Occupational Outlook Handbook: Healthcare Occupations
    A career resource offering profiles on all types of jobs: what workers do, the work environment, education/training/qualifications required, and salary expectations. (US Bureau of Labor Statistic)
  • The PBS Career Center: Healthcare Careers
    A 25-minute video episode exploring job opportunities in healthcare, going on-the-job with a nurse, and learning about a career training program for aspiring dental hygienists. Plus, a primer on a skill every healthcare professional must master.
  • New York Health Careers
    Information for current and future health professionals in New York on nearly 60 different professions and occupations.
  • Northern Area Health Education Center (NAHEC)
    This organization offers programs, tools, and resources to learn about different health careers. They also offer Rural Immersion experiences, placing students in a rural healthcare setting for one week, and M.A.S.H. summer camp.
  • The Institute for Career Advancement in Medicine (ICAM)
    A Health WorkForce New York initiative designed to support healthcare workforce development through training, evaluation, and collaboration with local leaders. Built within the Health Workforce Collaborative digital platform, ICAM provides students with tools and resources to explore careers in medicine and related fields, while offering teachers practical content to enhance STEM and healthcare education. By connecting users to workforce development efforts, ICAM helps students discover career pathways and equips teachers with materials to inspire and prepare the next generation of healthcare professionals.
Useful Books

These books may be available to borrow through your local library. Click the link to view the WorldCat page where you can find out. (WorldCat is a global catalog of library materials)

Health Careers Today provides a complete overview of the most popular careers in health and discusses the roles and responsibilities of different occupations. It provides a solid foundation in the skills and competencies that each health career requires. Clear explanations of anatomy and physiology, disease processes, and treatments provide essential knowledge of the human body and show how health concepts apply to the work of various professionals.
Healthcare Heroes: The Medical Careers Guide provides expert insights and strategies to help readers find their best career path in healthcare. It features healthcare professionals and their stories, giving you the unfiltered, unedited, no holds barred version of what it’s really like to be a healthcare professional in the 21st century.
101 Careers in Healthcare Management provides an introduction, brief history and education in healthcare management, as well as preparation and professionalism for finding jobs in this
field.
Working in Public Health: Choosing the Right Career is a practical and accessible book that maps out the range of options open to those considering a career in public health. It provides helpful information on how to become either a fully-fledged specialist or to work in an operational practitioner role.
101 Careers in Public Health provides an extensive overview of the numerous and diverse career options available and the many different roads to achieving them. It includes both familiar public health careers and emerging opportunities.
Medical Office Professionals: a Practical Career Guide includes interviews with professionals in the field, and covers careers that have proven to be stable, lucrative, and growing professions: Nurse Practitioner, Physician’s Assistant, Medical Office Transcriptionist, Phlebotomist, Surgical Technician, Pharmacy Technician, Optometrist, Sonographer, Surgical Technologist.


Day-in-the-life

Brief videos with real folks who are working these jobs