With an aging population and new innovations in medical diagnosis and treatment, healthcare jobs are growing faster than in any other field. An aging population needs more health services while healthcare innovations increase the use of medications and the demand for treatment facilities.
Even though healthcare provides job opportunities both to health services professionals and others such as accountants, personnel officers, buyers, computer programmers and food service personnel, the emphasis in this article is on health services professionals.
Health Services Professionals
Health services require both professionals with advanced training and technicians with different kinds of operational skills. We look at the range of healthcare jobs in this market. This is more an indicative list rather than an exhaustive one.
-> Physicians, dentists, chiropractors, optometrists and veterinarians are professionals who require varying levels of training
-> Technologists and technicians in clinical laboratory, EEG, EKG, nuclear medicine, radiology and surgical work
-> Health technicians like dental hygienists, dispensing opticians and emergency...