Other Health Professions

Although this website is primarily focused on medicine, there an many other health care careers that you might want to consider.

Dentistry

• American Dental Association

• Dental Schools and Programs

• DAT

Nursing (BA and Graduate)

• American Association of Colleges of Nursing

• Highest Paid Nursing Jobs

Nurse Practitioner

• American Association of Nurse Practitioners

• Nurse Practitioner Guides

• Learning the difference between NP and RN

• Planning your NP education

Occupational Therapy

• American Occupational Therapy Association

Optometry

• Association of School and Colleges of Optometry (ASCO)

• IU has a great site listing how to prepare for and apply to optomettry schools.

• OAT

Pharmacy

• American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

• PCAT

Physical Therapy

• American Physical Therapy Association

• Directory of Accredited Programs

Physician Assistant

• CASPA Application Help Center. CAPSA is the central application service and is a great link to answer your application questions.

• Physician assistant scope of practice, from American Medical Association. (Basically it describes in what states you need to have a dr. co-sign your work. )

• What Does It Take to Get into PA School. This link is sponsored for AAPS (American Academy of PAs).

• PAEA Program Directory Database with pull downs for searching.

• CASPA Participating Programs & Eligibility. This site outlines the status of each program and deadlines divided by color-coded category type. 

• NCCPA National Statistics (National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants) 2018. This document provides an excellent overview of the PA profession and breaks down how many PAs are in what speciality. For example the surgery subspecialty represents 18% of PAs. It even drills down to what you would be doing while a PA in that specialty. 

• PA Data Chart. Kind of a cool database that you can use to narrow down your schools.

Public Health

• List of Accredited Schools of Public Health

Veterinary Medicine

• American Veterinary Association

• Guide to Veterinary Admissions Requirements

General Sites for Exploration:

• ExploreHealthCareers.Org

• Princeton. Go to the Explore Careers Link

• Northwestern (Pre-Health links)