About This Area of Study
This area represents a professional path toward health and medicine. While doctors and nurses are occupations that might quickly come to mind, they’re but a small slice of the health care vocations available. An education in health and medicine is designed to create licensed professionals and assistants in the health care, clinical sciences and related administrative and support services fields.
What You Can Expect to Do
Helping people is at the heart of this area of study. Those who pursue it enroll in medical fields such as dentistry, mental health, clinical nutrition and more. However, there are other paths to consider too, such as laboratory science, medical illustrations and informatics, and health administration.