Allied Health Careers

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ALLIED HEALTH CAREERS : The term ‘allied health’ refers to health care professions that focus on the physical, emotional and cognitive health and wellbeing of patients. From the bustle of a metropolitan hospital, to jumping in a 4WD to see patients in the outback, allied health offers a wide variety of occupations and work settings to match your interests.

Career FAQs Allied Health tells the stories of professionals involved in all aspects of patient care, including an ambulance officer, flight paramedic, audiologist, diagnostic radiographer, clinical neuropsychologist, dietician/nutritionist, senior remedial therapist, occupational therapist, nuclear medicine technologist, hospital pharmacist, optometrist, health and lifestyle coordinator, prosthetist orthotist, radiation therapist, speech pathologist, sports physiotherapist, podiatrist, social worker and medical sonographer.

Find out who the main employers are – public and private health services, aged care facilities, rehabilitation, sports clubs and fitness facilities, schools and the retail and manufacturing industry.

A qualification in one of the allied health professions is a passport to opportunity and employment all over the world. If you want to help patients in a hands-on environment that offers a great variety of clinical experience and specialist skills essential to medicine and health care, this book is for you.