Health Careers

Keep in mind questions like:

• What tasks do I envision doing with patients?
• How long do I want to be in school?
• How many hours per week do I want to work?
• Do I want to work under the supervision of another professional or on my own? 

University Career Services has resources that can help you narrow down your career goals and personal strengths, including:

• What can I do with this Major?
• ONET Online (Career Exploration and Job Analysis)
• Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Outlook
• Explore/Compare Careers and Find your Career Fit

Visit explorehealthcareers.org to explore health career information and access tools to guide you as you prepare for a future in health care.

Books

Read books that provide insight about being a doctor, applying to health profession schools, or health careers.

-See the Goodreads.com: Popular Medicine Books list or the Leadership in Medicine Book Review Club for inspiration. Recommendations from the list:

• When Breath Becomes Air
• My Own Country
• Teeth: Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
• And the Band Played On
• Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
• Better 
• Complications
• Being Mortal
• The Checklist Manifesto
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• The Panic Virus
• Mama Might be Better Off Dead
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
• The Coming Plague
• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
• Genome, an Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
• The Blood of Strangers
• Mountains beyond Mountains
• Healing Children
• Do No Harm 
• What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear 
• My Patients and Other Animals 

Podcasts

Here is a list of top 10 podcasts for pre-meds from Diverse Medicine. Recommendations from the list:

• Antiracism in Medicine
• Black Men in White Coats 
• The Premed years with Dr. Gray
• Premed Mondays with Dr. Dale
• The Short Coat Podcast
• Talking Admissions & Med Student Life hosted by Dr. Benjamin Chan
• All Access: Med School Admissions with different Deans of Med Schools
• Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Seth Holmes, MD/PhD)
• Jake Fisher Medical Podcast
• MCAT Podcast