Health careers also offer great geographic mobility. Any community large enough to support a hospital will contain a wide spectrum of health professionals. The United States Department of Labor projects that health services will continue to grow much faster than the overall industrial average. There are currently critical shortages of epidemiologists, biostatisticians and environmental health, health finance and economic specialists, as well as a serious shortage of competent managers for health delivery systems. Such preliminary work can be completed at Oglethorpe University.
Demand exceeds supply in nine out of ten allied health fields.
Nurse practitioners, nurse midwives and other nurses with advanced training are in great demand in many areas of the country. Within the last ten years, the number of physical therapy and physical therapy assistant programs has doubled in the United States. Minority groups are grossly underrepresented in the field. You can click on the icons below. PAs practice with supervision by licensed physicians and provide services that would otherwise be provided by physicians.