Careers in Health Care

The AMA's Health Care Careers Directory lists information about 81 careers in health care (see PDF files below) and more than 8,000 accredited educational programs in those fields.

For more information or to order, contact the AMA at (800) 621-8335 or consult our online catalog. You can also obtain an order form by sending an e-mail to meded@ama-assn.org with the phrase "HCCD" in the e-mail's subject line.

Also, be sure to subscribe to our free monthly Health Care Careers e-Letter to stay up-to-date on news and trends in health professions education and practice.

Allied health

• Anesthesiologist assistant (PDF)
• Anesthesia technologist/technician (PDF)
• Athletic trainer (PDF)
• Cardiovascular technologist (PDF)
• Electroneurodiagnostic technologist (PDF)
• Emergency medical technician-paramedic (PDF)
• Exercise science (personal fitness trainer, exercise physiologist, and exercise science professional) (PDF)
• Kinesiotherapist (PDF)
• Medical assistant (PDF)
• Medical illustrator (PDF)
• Orthotist and prosthetist (PDF)
• Perfusionist (PDF)
• Polysomnographic technologist (PDF)
• Respiratory therapist (PDF)
• Surgical assistant (PDF)
• Surgical technologist (PDF)

Complementary and alternative medicine and therapies

• Chiropractic (PDF)
• Massage therapist (PDF)

Communication sciences

• Audiologist (PDF)
• Speech-language pathologist (PDF)

Counseling

• Counselor (PDF)
• Genetic counselor (PDF)
• Rehabilitation counselor (PDF)

Dietetics

• Dietitian/nutritionist (PDF)
• Dietetic technician (PDF)

Dentistry and related fields

• Dental assistant (PDF)
• Dental hygienist (PDF)
• Dental laboratory technician (PDF)
• Dentist (PDF)

Expressive/creative arts therapies

• Art therapist (PDF)
• Dance/movement therapist (PDF)
• Music therapist (PDF)

Health information and communication

• Cancer registrar (PDF)
• Health information administrator (PDF)
• Health information technician (PDF)
• Medical coder (PDF)
• Medical librarian (PDF)
• Medical transcriptionist (PDF)

Laboratory science

• Blood bank technology-specialist (PDF)
• Clinical assistant (PDF)
• Clinical laboratory scientist/medical technologist (PDF)
• Clinical laboratory technician/medical laboratory technician (PDF)
• Cytogenetic technologist (PDF)
• Cytotechnologist (PDF)
• Diagnostic molecular scientist (PDF)
• Histotechnician (PDF)
• Histotechnologist (PDF)
• Pathologists’ assistant (PDF)
• Phlebotomist (PDF)

Medical imaging

• Diagnostic medical sonographer (PDF)
• Magnetic resonance technologist (PDF)
• Medical dosimetrist (PDF)
• Nuclear medicine technologist (PDF)
• Radiation therapist (PDF)
• Radiographer (PDF)
• Registered radiologist assistant (PDF)

Nurse

Pharmacy

• Pharmacist  (PDF)
• Pharmacy technician (PDF)

Physician

• Doctor of medicine (PDF)
• Doctor of osteopathic medicine (PDF)

Physician assistant

Podiatrist

Psychologist

Therapy and rehabilitation

• Occupational therapist (PDF)
• Occupational therapy assistant (PDF)
• Physical therapist (PDF)
• Physical therapist assistant (PDF)
• Therapeutic recreation specialist (PDF)

Veterinary medicine 

• Veterinarian  (PDF)
• Veterinary technologist and technician (PDF)

Vision-related professions

• Ophthalmic assistant/technician/technologist (PDF)
• Ophthalmic dispensing optician (PDF)
• Optometrist  (PDF)
• Orientation and mobility specialist (PDF)
• Orthoptist  (PDF)
• Teacher of the visually impaired (PDF)
• Vision rehabilitation therapist (PDF)

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