{"id":1040,"date":"2024-08-12T16:37:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T16:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/chs-resource-hub\/?page_id=1040"},"modified":"2025-03-31T19:19:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T19:19:21","slug":"explore-health-professions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/chs-resource-hub\/explore-health-professions\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore Health Professions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Explore the breadth of healthcare careers and how they work together to help patients.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Athletic Training<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

provide preventative services, emergency care, clinical diagnosis, therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation of injuries and medical conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Speech Language Pathology<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

 Work to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders in children and adults. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Explore SLP<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Histotechnology<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

microscopic detection of tissue abnormalities for disease diagnosis and the treatment of diseases<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Medical Lab Sciences<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

laboratory analyses that assist in patient diagnosis and treatment, as well as in disease monitoring or prevention<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Explore Medical Lab Sciences<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Dietetics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

help people live healthy and active lives through the transformative power of food and nutrition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Public Health<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

focuses on health and promotion, research for disease and injury prevention and detecting and controlling infectious diseases to improve and protect health of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Social Work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

promotes social change, development, cohesion and the empowerment of people and communities<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nursing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

includes the promotion of health, prevention of illness, and the care of ill, disabled and dying people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Occupational Therapy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

work with individuals, families, caregivers, educational providers, employers and community members to facilitate engagement in valued daily activities<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Physical Therapy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

prevents, identifies, corrects, or alleviates acute or prolonged movement dysfunction or pain of anatomic or physiologic origin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Physicians Assistant<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

licensed clinicians who practice medicine in every specialty and setting<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Explore PA<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Sport Management<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

planning, organizing, directing, controlling, budgeting, leading, and evaluating within sport or physical activity organizations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kinesiology<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

the study of physical activity and its impact on health, society, and quality of life<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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