Health Care Careers Directory
The AMA's Health Care Careers Directory lists information about 81 careers in health care (see PDF files below) and more than 8,100 accredited educational programs in those fields.
For more information or to order, contact the AMA at (800) 621-8335 or consult our online catalog. You can also obtain an order form by sending an e-mail to meded@ama-assn.org with the phrase "HCCD" in the e-mail's subject line.
Also, be sure to subscribe to our free monthly Health Care Careers e-Letter to stay up-to-date on news and trends in health professions education and practice.
Allied health
- Anesthesiologist assistant
- Anesthesia technologist/technician
- Athletic trainer
- Cardiovascular technologist
- Electroneurodiagnostic technologist
- Emergency medical technician-paramedic
- Exercise science (personal fitness trainer, exercise physiologist, and exercise science professional)
- Kinesiotherapist
- Medical assistant
- Medical illustrator
- Orthotist and prosthetist
- Perfusionist
- Polysomnographic technologist
- Respiratory therapist
- Surgical assistant
- Surgical technologist
Complementary and alternative medicine and therapies
Communication sciences
Counseling
Dietetics
Dentistry and related fields
Expressive/creative arts therapies
Health information and communication
Laboratory science
- Blood bank technology-specialist
- Clinical assistant
- Clinical laboratory scientist/medical technologist
- Clinical laboratory technician/medical laboratory technician
- Cytogenetic technologist
- Cytotechnologist
- Diagnostic molecular scientist
- Histotechnician
- Histotechnologist
- Pathologists’ assistant
- Phlebotomist
