Friday, November 20, 2009

Health Sciences Academy

The Health Sciences Academy was established to help students explore careers in the health care industry. Through workshops, job shadowing experiences and internships students are able to obtain valuable information on possible career choices.

Health Care is a high growth industry. Below are some interesting facts from The Bureau of Labor Statistics:

  • The health care industry is predicted to add 3.5 million new jobs between 2002 and 2012, an increase of 30%.
  • It is predicted that about 16% of all new wage and salary jobs created between 2002 and 2012 will be in health services.
  • From 2002-2012, 10 of the 20 fastest growing occupations are concentrated in health services. These positions include: medical assistants (59% growth), physician assistants (49% growth), home health aides (48% growth), and medical records and health information technicians (47% growth).
  • Projected rates of employment growth for the various segments of the industry range from 12.8% in hospitals, the largest and slowest-growing industry segment,to 55.8% in the much smaller home healthcare services.