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HEALTH CAREERS RESOURCES
The material below
provides web sites for research into health careers, and
some web sites with actual lessons in biology, medical
terminology, anatomy etc.
If you are a teacher and you are wanting to borrow video
tapes and/or purchase (small fees) health careers
education resources materials for all age groups, please
click here.
One of the best resources for eastern Oregon is NEOAHEC's own Field Guide to Health Careers, which can be accessed here.
HEALTH CAREERS RESEARCH
Oregon Labor Market Information Site
The best site with Oregon specific information about
careers. Also, has Skills Explorer section, Occupations
Explorer and lots of information about education and
training for professions.
http://www.qualityinfo.org/olmisj/OlmisZine?zineid=00000001
Oregon Health
Care Careers
Developed by the Oregon Association of Hospitals and
Health Systems for the purpose of helping to build the
healthcare workforce in Oregon. Includes a career
selector system and information on education and
training. Appears to provide current and accurate
information.
http://www.oregonhealthcarecareers.net/
Is a Health
Career for Me?
Overview of health careers and choices.
http://www.oregonhealthcareers.org/
Teacher,
Student and Mentor Resource Information
Online Health Career Ambassador manual which can be printed by teachers, students,
mentors or others for putting on health careers fairs,
classes, health careers days. Includes 51 health career
descriptions - all ready to print. Thank you Western
Washington AHEC!
http://www.users.qwest.net/~wwahec/WWAHEC_career_prep.htm
Oregon Career Information Systems
If you are with an Oregon school, someone in your school
probably has the Oregon CIS system - the very best
resource for careers in Oregon. Check out their website
and send them an email to see if your school already has
their software. If you are from outside of Oregon, there
are CIS systems in other states and this provides a link
to them.
http://oregoncis.uoregon.edu/
America's Career InfoNet
Information about particular occupations (training,
outlook, earnings); trends and resources. Site is
searchable and still "developing."
http://www.acinet.org/
Explore Health Careers
Website operated by the Association of Academic Health Centers in Washington, DC. The website is a comprehensive and totally free resource for college and pre-college students who are interested in pursuing the health professions. It features 65 health careers with three searchable databases, to help students find schools, enrichment programs, and funding in the health field of their choice.
http://www.explorehealthcareers.org/
The Occupational Outlook Handbook
Official handbook for the Bureau of Labor and Statistics
(BLS) and is good site if you want to compare specific
occupations and their occupational outlook. At the bottom
of this initial listing is a link back to the main BLS
web page where it is possible to look at other research
options.
http://www.bls.gov/oco/
Oregon's
Health Care Careers
Very current overview of workforce needs in Oregon.
Includes employment data, trends data and occupational
information.
http://www.oregonhealthcarecareers.net/index.html
Job
Shadowing
Resources for creating a Job Shadowing Day at your
school. Material particularly good for older elementary
and middle school students.
http://www.jobshadow.org/
Career Resource Center
Provides links to other career resource areas.
http://www.careers.org
LEARN ON LINE
This is just a
beginning point for online learning which can be done to
enhance high school health careers classes.
MedicalStudent.com
MedicalStudent.com is a digital library of authoritative
medical information designed to help all students of
medicine. The goal of MedicalStudent.com is to provide a
starting point for entry into medical places of
enlightenment, entertainment and education on the
Internet. MedicalStudent.com identifies authoritative
medical World-Wide Web sites that can teach, illuminate,
and inspire. It includes medical simulations, textbooks
and a lot of graphical resources. Marla Cavallo, Baker
High School, tries to make sure her health careers
students see an autopsy - if you can't provide that kind
of opportunity, there is a virtual autopsy site
referenced in this material.
http://medicalstudent.com/
Human Anatomy On-line
Anatomy course online. Great way to begin to develop the
vocabulary and comprehension needed for a health career.
Fairly general, but a more comprehensive course is
available for $19.95 (we have not assessed it).
http://www.innerbody.com/
Visible Human Project
Some students may enjoy these images - the section with
further information on Images and Animations is probably
the most interesting.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
Online Medical Dictionary
Allows for searching of specific words or topic areas.
Every descriptor word can also be accessed for a
definition (if it is unfamiliar). It is continually being
updated.
http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/
