Clinical Manager

Duties and Responsibilities: Medical and health services managers, also called healthcare executives or healthcare administrators, plan, direct and coordinate medical and health services. They might manage an entire facility or specialize in managing a specific clinical area or department, or manage a medical practice for a group of physicians. Medical and health services managers must be able to adopt to changes in healthcare laws, regulations, and technology.

Salary: $126,478 - $148,604

Education: Medical and health services managers held about 315,500 jobs in 2012. Most medical and health services managers work in offices in healthcare facilities, including hospitals and nursing homes, and group medical practices.

Student Success Statement 

"Kindness is the essence of greatness."

Joseph B. Wirthlin 

Speech Pathologist

Duties and Responsibilities: Speech-language pathologists (sometimes called speech therapists) assess, diagnose, treat, and help to prevent communication and swallowing disorders in patients. Speech, language, and swallowing disorders result from a variety of causes, such as a stoke, brain injury, hearing loss, development delay, a cleft palate, cerebral palsy, emotional problems.

Salary: $44,430 - $107,650

Education: Speech-language pathologists work with patients who have problems with speech. Their patients may be unable to speak or have rhythm and fluency problems, such as stuttering. 

Student Success Statement

“Manners maketh man.”

William of Wykeham

Respiratory Therapy technician

Duties and Responsibilities: Respiratory therapy technicians are also called respiratory therapy assistants, respiratory care assistants or respiratory therapist assistants. They assist respiratory therapists (RT) and doctors to provide medical treatment to people that have breathing and cardiopulmonary problems such as asthma or emphysema. They can also provide medical aid under the direction of RT’s to people suffering from shock, heart attack and drowning as well as adults that have lungs problems or babies with undeveloped lungs. The on-the-job training includes taking part in examinations, administering treatments and therapy, and providing nursing care for patients suffering from breathing and cardiopulmonary difficulties. Respiratory therapy technicians are employed by hospitals and nursing homes, and at respiratory therapy offices and clinics. Most of the positions are part time, to accommodate students’ class schedules, though some full-time positions are available.

Salary: $71,000