Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

1. Identify specifics about various health professions such as physical requirements, employment opportunities, wages and length of training.
2. Explore career pathways, academic expectations, shared prerequisite courses and alternative program options.
3. Apply knowledge to make informed health career decisions.

1. Comparing and contrasting two professions of interest
2. Interviewing someone in the profession of interest
3. Keeping a journal of key information learned about each profession that the student was not aware of prior to this course
4. Reviewing a professional journal article about a specific health care career or employment issue and summarize the article, describing the implications the issue has on the health care worker or workforce.
5. Completion of a self-assessment survey on what the student wants from a career and comparing their list to what was learned in the course about each health profession.

Themes:
• Oregon Career Information Systems and other career research tools.
• Growth of healthcare industry
• Requirements of healthcare occupations
Concepts:
• Career pathways
• Advancement
• Research
• Career information and databases
• Professional licenses, certificates, and credentials
Issues:
• Ethics
• Competition for admission into healthcare training programs
• Work schedules in healthcare occupations
• Direct patient contact or indirect patient contact
Skills:
• Define one’s interests and career expectations
• Compare one’s expectations to careers explored in course
• Research wage/salary, training and preparation of selected occupations