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Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary

Also called: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Clinical Professor, Professor

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What they do:
Teach courses in health specialties, in fields such as dentistry, laboratory technology, medicine, pharmacy, public health, therapy, and veterinary medicine.
On the job, you would:
  • Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
  • Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
  • Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.

Knowledge

Education and Training
  • teaching and course design
Arts and Humanities
  • English language
Math and Science
  • biology
  • psychology
Health
  • medicine and dentistry

Skills

Basic Skills
  • reading work related information
  • talking to others
Problem Solving
  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Social
  • teaching people how to do something
  • understanding people's reactions

Abilities

Verbal
  • communicate by speaking
  • read and understand what is written
Ideas and Logic
  • use rules to solve problems
  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need:
  • Integrity
  • Cooperation
  • Leadership
  • Concern for Others
  • Dependability
  • Initiative

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Word processing software
  • Google Docs Hot Technology
  • Microsoft Word Hot Technology
Computer based training software
  • Adobe Systems Adobe Presenter
  • Learning management system LMS
Medical software
  • InteractElsevier Netter's 3D Interactive Anatomy
  • Medical procedure coding software

Education

Education: (rated 5 of 5)
master's degree or
doctoral degree
usually needed

Job Outlook

Bright Outlook
New job opportunities are very likely in the future.
Salary
$102,720
$48,890
$208,000+

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