The respiratory care profession has a bright future with a great deal of job security and opportunity for advancement. Once you enter the profession you may want to specialize in an area such as neonatal care, cardiopulmonary diagnostics, pediatric or adult critical care. You may also elect to stay a generalist practitioner. With more care being provided outside the hospital environment there is a rapidly growing market for therapists outside the acute care environment, in such areas as home care, physician office practice, medical equipment sales, sub-acute care in a skilled nursing facility or perhaps in pulmonary rehabilitation. Students accepted into the second phase of the program then enroll in a combination of lecture, lab, and clinical courses offered on the ELAC campus.
Clinical training occurs in some of the most respected medical facilities in the United States.
These clinical sites provide some of the finest learning opportunities available and result in a very job-market ready graduate. For more program information please call the Health Science Department at SMC to speak to Mel Welch, faculty member of the program.