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Allied Health Careers

Allied health is the term for the area of healthcare (and health care professions) that provide support and care services other than specific doctoring and nurse care. At times, the line between allied health and “non-allied health” may seem to be separated by level of degree/education, although this is not always true.  Allied health career paths can be divided into general roles like diagnostic (testing to see what is wrong), technical (taking care of technology aspects), therapeutic (moving the patient toward healing) and direct patient care (caring for the patient in other ways), although there is some overlap in a few roles. There are a few hundred potential jobs and dozens of potential settings that one could work.

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Allied Health Careers

UNIT 1 – INTRODUCTION TO ALLIED HEALTH CAREERS

  1. Course Overview
  2. What is Allied Health?
  3. Exploring the Allied Health Competency Model
  4. Project: Evaluating Your Competencies in Light of Scripture
  5. Who’s the Hero? An Allied Health Story
  6. Quiz: Introduction
  7. First Responders: EMT/Paramedic
  8. Project: Medical Ethics and the Christian
  9. Surgical Technologists
  10. Perfusionist
  11. Quiz: First Responders and Emergency Personnel
  12. Test
  13. Glossary and Credits

UNIT 2 – ART AND TECHNOLOGY

  1. Medical Arts and Special Skills: Medical Illustrator
  2. Project: Medical Illustration/Emergency Medicine Career Comparison 
  3. Medical Arts and Special Skills: Orthotists and Prosthetists
  4. Medical Arts and Special Skills: Art Therapist
  5. Quiz: Medical Arts and Special Skills
  6. Therapists and Technologists: Respiratory Therapists and Cystic Fibrosis
  7. Therapists and Technologists: Radiologic Technologist and Situs Inversus
  8. Therapists and Technologists: Polysomnographic Technologists and Sleep Apnea
  9. Quiz: Therapists and Technologists
  10. Test
  11. Glossary and Credits

UNIT 3 – EXERCISE SCIENCE AND PATIENT EVALUATION

  1. Exercise as Medicine and the Exercise Physiologist
  2. Kinesiotherapy and the U.S. Veteran returning from Afghanistan
  3. Fitness Instructor and the New Year’s Resolution
  4. Quiz: Exercise Science
  5. Audiologists and Hearing Loss
  6. Electro-Neurodiagnostic (END) Technologist and the Nervous System
  7. Project: Epilepsy Research Paper 
  8. Cardiovascular Technologist
  9. Quiz: Evaluating the Patient
  10. Test
  11. Glossary and Credits

UNIT 4 – HEALTH INFORMATICS AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

  1. Health Informatics, Data Acquisition, and Medical Coding
  2. Dental Informatics
  3. Telemedicine and Mobile Computing Informatics
  4. Quiz: Health Informatics and Medical Coding
  5. Introduction to Healthcare Management
  6. Introduction to the Hospital Administrator Role
  7. Applications, Activities and Case Studies in Hospital and Healthcare Management
  8. Project: Support for Christian Healthcare Professionals 
  9. Quiz: Hospital Administrator/Health Care Management
  10. Test
  11. Glossary and Credits

UNIT 5 – COUNSELING, DIETETICS AND CHOOSING A CAREER IN ALLIED HEALTH

  1. Genetic Counseling ‖ An Introduction to the Career
  2. Bioinformatics and the Human Genome
  3. Project: Mapping Genes  
  4. Prenatal Counseling and Anomalies, Choice, Ethics, Science
  5. Quiz: Genetic Counseling
  6. Dietetics and Nutrition: An Introduction to the Career
  7. Diet and the Body
  8. Career Exploration Activities
  9. Quiz: Dietetics and Nutrition
  10. Test
  11. Glossary and Credits

UNIT 6 – COURSE PROJECT, REVIEW, AND EXAM

  1. Review
  2. Exam