How to become a Healthcare person: Overview

If you want to become a healthcare worker, the medical profession offers you many career choices. You can work hands-on as a doctor, nurse, medical assistant, or technologist. Or you can become a hospital or insurance administrator. Private practice healthcare offices also employ many workers.

How to become a healthcare worker

If you like helping and healing people and you're good at science and math, you'll enjoy becoming a medical professional. You'll need education appropriate to your job choice, ranging from an 18-month certificate to a medical school degree for doctors. For a medical assistant or healthcare office career, you might start your training on the job, in a support position.

Prospects for the medical profession

The prospects in all branches of the medical profession are bright--from the surgeon to the transcriptionist who turns doctors' notes into medical bills. Across the board, healthcare jobs pay well, offer job security, and have great benefits. If you're a responsible, mature person, consider becoming a medical professional.

Sources

Occupational Outlook Handbook (bls.gov)
Exploring Careers. JIST Publishing, Inc. 2003.