Activities | Plan, direct, or coordinate medical and health services in hospitals, clinics, managed-care organizations, public health agencies, or similar organizations. |
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Outlook | Faster-than-average-job growth |
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Median Income | $73,340 per year in May 2006 |
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Work Context & Conditions | Most medical and health services managers work long hours. Facilities such as hospitals operate around the clock, and administrators and managers may be called at all hours to deal with problems. |
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Minimum Education Requirements | Bachelor's Degree
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Skills | Persuasion, Social Perceptiveness, Learning Strategies, Monitoring, Management of Personnel Resources, Critical Thinking, Instructing, Active Listening, Writing, Service Orientation, Time Management, Active Learning, Complex Problem Solving, Judgment and Decision Making, Coordination, Reading Comprehension, Speaking |
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Abilities | Oral Expression, Speech Recognition, Deductive Reasoning, Problem Sensitivity, Written Comprehension, Information Ordering, Inductive Reasoning, Written Expression, Oral Comprehension |
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Interviews | Wade Atkins Ron DeClerck |
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