Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Career Profile: Occupational Health and Safety Specialists
Occupational health and safety specialists inspect workplaces to be sure all safety standards are followed. This is particularly important in dangerous jobs such as coal miners, but potential hazards can be found in all occupations. This...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Science Careers: Industrial Safety and Health Engineer
On the job safety is an important goal for industry. The industrial safety and health engineer is the one responsible for recognizing risks, and developing strategies to address them. This Science Buddies site lays out the requirements...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Career Profile: Health Educator
Find out about the career of health educator in this Science Buddies career profile. You can find out who hires health educators and what their on the job work is like as well as the educational requirements to become one. If you enjoy...
Government of Alberta
Alberta Learning Information Service: Public Health Inspector
A complete description of the career of a public health inspector including duties, working conditions, skills, education and training, and employment outlook and wages.
Careers New Zealand
Careers Nz: Massage Therapist
This site provides detailed information on the career of a massage therapist. Read about the tasks and duties, personal requirements, education, working conditions, and much more.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Physicians and Surgeons
This resource contains information about medical careers, like physicians and surgeons.
Other
Health and Safety Institute
This site offers a resource for professional safety, health instruction and accreditation for health professionals. Includes a career center, training programs, and much more.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Registered Nurses
Extensive information about the nursing career as well as information on many other careers. The search engine can be used to find any career listed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Other
Ohio Health Information Management Association: Careers
General Health Information Management information at the OHIMA home.
American Psychological Association
Apa: Interesting Careers in Psychology
Focus on non-academic careers for scientific psychologists. Provides links to several scientific psychologists who explain how they secured a job in a nontraditional setting outside the "lab" or "university setting."
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Medical Records and Health Information Tech
Career trends and employment projections are detailed in this Department of Labor site. General information on the Medical Records and Health Information Technician profession is also provided.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Health and Safety Specialists and Techs
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides everything you need to know on the career of an occupational health and safety specialist and technician.
Other
Hospital Jobs Online: Healthcare Job Connection
Locate a variety of healthcare jobs for Nurses, Physicians, Pharmacists, Physical Therapists, Radiology, Administrators, other healthcare professionals.
Other
Nursing Jobs Online
Are you interested in exploring career opportunitiesin nursing. Nursing Jobs Online provides a variety of information on nursing opportunties.
University of California
Univ. Of California: Career Exploration Link
Are you interested in exploring a career? The occupational career exploration links allow you you to select a professional area and display potential job paths within that field.
South Carolina Educational Television
Kids Work! Real People: Dietitian
Interview with a dietitian in which she answers questions about her work, qualifications, and other career-related issues.
Other
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
Home page of an association of college nursing education programs. Their mission is to improve and monitor the educational programs for nurses across the nation. Professional, educational, and research resources are included, as well as...
Other
American Dental Association: Be a Dentist
From the American Dental Association, this page informs those with an interest in a career in dentistry. It includes information about professional associations, "day in the life" profiles of dentists, a list of ten reasons dentists...
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Counselors
This resource provides information about counseling careers. Also includes duties, training, salaries, work situations, and job outlook.
Other
American Medical Association
This resource is the homepage of the association responsible for licensing all medical education programs in the US, and setting the standards for medical education, practice, and research. Contains professional and educational resources.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Physician Assistants
Published by the U.S. Department of Labor, this site offers a great deal of information about the Physician Assistant career.
Other
Psych Net Uk
Explore the world of psychology! Investigate association/societies, jobs, training, colleges, and industry profiles.
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Choosing a Career in Health
There are two lessons in this lesson plan site. The first gives the students an appreciation of the need for hand washing to prevent disease and the second allows the students to explore the health field and to describe a career that...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Deep Knee Bends: Measuring Knee Stress With a Mechanical Model
Prosthetic limbs and artificial joints can help people with disease or injury lead a normal life. Sports medicine or physical therapy is also an area that relates to this experiment. Either way, this project serves as a good match if any...