A Great Degree Without Med-School

If you are interested in the medical field, but are not inclined to work as a nurse, doctor or other clinical environment, there are still many jobs that you can get that require health knowledge and background.

Here are some of the top non-medical health care jobs that you can get a degree in and find the job you desire:

Healthcare Administrator

Becoming a Healthcare administrator usually requires at least a Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration, as well as taking several business classes.

However, if you go on to graduate with an advanced degree such as a Master’s in Healthcare Administration, then you will have a chance at the higher salaries in this field.

Healthcare Administrators can earn up to more than $100,000 a year depending on their background, experience and training and the area in which they work.

They are in charge of taking care of the business aspects of running a medical clinic or related jobs.

Mental Health Counselor

Mental Health Counselors need to have a Master’s degree or a PhD in counseling or some sort of mental health field, as well as get licensed in the state they want to get a job in and work.

They work with patients privately, as well as in public clinics, that have problems with the abuse of drugs, or those who are depressed or have marriage problems.

If you like helping people figure out how to solve their problems, then this is a good job for you. The salary for this position on average is more than $60,000 a year.

Medical Secretary

Medical secretaries are one of the highest in-demand jobs and are in the top 10 of jobs expected to be needed in the coming years.

If you want to become a medical secretary you must earn an Associates or a Bachelor’s degree related to a medical secretary program.

Classes will include office and insurance processes, how to understand billing processing, medical terminology, as well as those in medical coding, pharmacology, pathology, anatomy, ethics and bookkeeping. Plus, you must be certified in the state you wish to work in.

Medical secretary salaries on average are around $42,000 a year.

Medical Transcriptionist

A medical transcriptionist must know some of the same things a medical secretary knows, but the difference is they use their skills to transcribe the doctor’s notes and recordings so that they can be placed in a patient’s files.

This too is a sought after position with an expected increase rate of more than 17 percent over the next few years. Their average salary is more than $40,000 a year.

If you are interested in becoming a medical transcriptionist, you can do it without a degree, but if you earn an associate’s degree it will help you to get a higher paying position.

Some of the classes you should take include composition, writing, grammar, and spelling, as well as medical related classes on anatomy, physiology, and related courses.

Health Educator

To become a Health educator you will need at least a Bachelor’s degree in education, but a master’s degree or higher may be needed depending on what type of instructor and the level of the classes you are going to teach.

You can teach people in your local area about health topic such as prevention of disease, nutrition, etc. by presenting classes at schools, or other areas.

You could even volunteer to go abroad and teach healthy living skills to people in foreign countries with a humanitarian organization such as the Lion’s Club or Doctors without Borders, etc.

If you work in a large area, you may make as much as $73,000 a year, but those in small areas may also make much less than that amount.