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Education beyond HS **Daily Worksheet**

Name: Brittany TijerinaClass Period: 2nd **Instructions:** Please Answer the questions. Save this worksheet in your documents folder or on your desktop. Upload your completed worksheet to YOUR OWN Wikispace page. **Fill in the blank**


 * 1) After high school, if you are interested in a career in the health care field, there are as many options as there are opportunities. Whatever career you pick, will determine how much education and training beyond high school you will have to complete before you may obtain a medical license or certification
 * 2) **Certification:** One of the most common types of certification in modern society is Professional certification where a person is certified as being able to competently complete a job or task, usually by the passing of an examination. There are two general types of professional certification: some are valid for lifetime, once the exam is passed. Others have to be decertified again after a certain period of time
 * 3) L**icense:** In most countries, only persons with a medical license bestowed either by a specified government-approved professional association or a government agency are authorized to practice medicine. Licenses are not granted automatically to all people with medical degrees.
 * 4) Doctors, Nurses and some allied health care professionals are required to hold medial licenses. Other Allied Health careers will have to obtain a certification.
 * 5) Generally, people in the medical field who have a license are considered medical professional. For those people who hold a medial certification, they are usually considered a technicalexpertrather than a professional. An example of a medical certification would be an X-Ray Technician or a Paramedic, Physical Therapist or Phlebotomist.
 * 6) **Allied Health Professionals**:work in clinical health care professions distinct from medicine, dentistry, and nursing.Allied health professionals make up 60 percent of the total health workforce. They work in health care teams to make the healthcare system function by providing a range of diagnostic, technical, therapeutic and direct patient care and support services that are critical to the other health professionals they work with and the patients they serve.