Healthcare Career Community
Contact
Career ExplorationKagin Commons, First Floor 651-696-6384
careerexploration@macalester.edu
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Maybe you…
- Provide individual care to patients in a particular role/facet of medicine/healthcare as a clinician (doctor, physician’s assistant, nurse, therapist).
- Create and coordinate processes and systems as part of an individual’s healthcare experiences.
- Counsel and advise patients and their loved ones.
- Research and analyze topics, systems, processes and models of care to improve services.
- Offer specific analysis, treatment, or instruction in a particular modality (produce lab report, dental exam, occupational or speech therapy, or acupuncture).
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of programs.
- Advocate for best practices to the general public, governments, practitioner groups.
Early Destinations
Elite Medical Scribes | Chief Medical Scribe | Gurnee, IL |
Hospital for Special Surgery | Research Assistant I | New York, NY |
Intermountain Neurosciences Institute | Research Assistant | Salt Lake City, UT |
Mayo Clinic | Clinical research Position | Rochester |
Minneapolis Medical Research Fund | Research Assistant | Minneapolis, MN |
Minneapolis VA Health Care System | Research Coordinator | Minneapolis, MN |
Minnesota Center for Twin & Family Research | Research Assistant | Minneapolis, MN |
Minnesota Department of Health | Americorps Vista | St. Paul, MN |
Key Resources
While these are local resources, use these as examples to find their equivalent in the city/region for your search.
Macalester Olin Rice Hub Resources for Pre-Health Students – Macalester’s site for pre-health events, research, shadowing and internships information
Macalester Olin Rice Hub Resources for Research
Online Pre-health workshops offered by the University of Minnesota
Minnesota’s State-wide Health Organizations Directory
National Association of Pre-Health Advisors Directory of Specialties – Great list of diverse health fields from Audiology to Veterinary Medicine
National Association of Pre-Health Advisors directory of summer programs