Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary

Also Called:

Assistant Professor,

Associate Professor,

Clinical Professor,

Professor

What they do: Teach courses in health specialties, in fields such as dentistry, laboratory technology, medicine, pharmacy, public health, therapy, and veterinary medicine.

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Education & Training

Career Cluster

What do they typically do on the job?

  • 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.

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.

Empathy

Social Orientation

Achievement Orientation

Cooperation

Intellectual Curiosity

Integrity

Interests

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Abilities

Whether you have received formal training or not, these types of abilities are helpful in this career.

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

Skills

People who want to pursue this career have skills in these areas.

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

Does this sound like something you'd like to do?

1. Do some research

  • Identify how your interests, values, and strengths match this occupation
  • Talk to someone who works in this field or spend a day job shadowing
  • Use the colleges and training directory to explore programs related to this career

2. Plan your next move

  • Talk to your college and career counselor or school admissions staff
  • Visit Idaho Launch
  • Search for available Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary jobs on Idaho Works

Data for NSI career cards comes from the following: Idaho Department of Labor, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, O*NET, MyNextMove, and Career OneStop