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Health and Medicine

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.


  • Allied Health and Medical Assisting
  • Chiropractic
  • Communication Disorders and Sciences
  • Dentistry and Oral Sciences
  • Health and Medical Administrative Services
  • Medical Laboratory Sciences
  • Medicine
  • Medical Clinical Sciences
  • Mental and Social Health Services
  • Optometry

  • Pharmacy
  • Public Health
  • Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions
  • Patient Care
  • Medical Illustrations and Informatics
  • Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition
  • Health Education
  • Alternative Medicine
  • Registered Nursing

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