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Health
Quarter 4 – Module 3:
Health Career Pathways
HEALTH Grade 10
Quarter 4 – Module 3: Health Career Pathways
First Edition, 2020

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Health
Quarter 4 – Module 3:
Health Career Pathways
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:
As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to
use this module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress
while allowing them to manage their own learning at home.
Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist the learners as
they do the tasks included in the module.

For the learner:

As a learner, you must learn to become responsible of your own
learning. Take time to read, understand, and perform the different
activities in the module.
As you go through the different activities of this module be
reminded of the following:
1. Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any
part of the module. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the
exercises.
2. Don’t forget to answer Let Us Try before moving on to the other
activities.
3. Read the instructions carefully before doing each task.
4. Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and checking
your answers.
5. Finish the task at hand before proceeding to the next.
6. Return this module to your teacher/facilitator once you are done.
If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this
module, do not hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator. Always
bear in mind that you are not alone. We hope that through this material,
you will experience meaningful learning and gain deep understanding
of the relevant competencies. You can do it!

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 Let Us Learn
Before we get started, I would like to determine how far you know about
Health Career Pathways. Specifically, this module seeks to achieve the learning
competency:

Explores the various health career paths and selects a particular

health career pathway based on personal competence and interest;
participates in a health career orientation program; (H10PC-Ivc-d-3)

And we will focus our learning objectives with the following:

1. explore various health career pathways and select a particular

health career pathway based on personal competence and interest;
2. participate in a health career orientation program.

Are you ready? Now, let us start learning about this module. See you
and good luck!

Let Us Try
CONCEPT MAP

Materials needed: MAPEH notebook or 1 whole sheet and pen

Instruction: Arrange the letters to create word/s about health career

pathways. Write your answer inside the circles.

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Answer the following questions:

1. In our previous activity, what are the words you arranged?

____________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________

2. Do you think these health career pathways will help you choose a
health career in the future? How?
____________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________

Let Us Study

HEALTH CAREER PATHWAYS

Health career pathways provide students the opportunity to explore
various profession in the field medical or healthcare courses. The course is
designed to give students the chance to discover whether the particular
medical/health science is right for them and best suits their abilities and
interests. It can help them choose the possible careers they might consider
in the future.
Examples of Health Career Pathways
1. Nutrition
Specializes in finding ways to balance individuals’ food and
nutrition and their impact on patients’ health. They help plan, prepare
meals and promote healthy eating for better health.
Sample Careers: Clinical Dietetics
Public Health Nutrition
Education and Research
2. Disease Prevention and Control
Professionals who focus on communicable and non
communicable diseases. It includes disease control and prevention
and immunization activities.
Sample Careers: Community Health Work
Education and Research

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3. Dental Health
Dental health workers deal with various oral conditions.
Sample Careers: Dental Hygiene
Dental Nursing
Dental Health Support
4. Environmental Healthcare Management
Careers in this path establish the correlation between and
among the physical, chemical, biological, social and psychosocial
factors in the surrounding environment.
Sample Careers: Air Quality Monitoring
Hazardous and Solid Waste Management
5. Drug Prevention and Control
Those professionals that seek to reduce community and
individual problems related to alcohol and drug abuse.
Sample Careers: Drug Enforcement
Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation
6. Emergency Medical Services
People who specialize in out-of-hospital medical care.
Sample Careers: Emergency Medical and Paramedic
7. Personal Healthcare
Professionals in this field perform healthcare related tasks in
the personal care level. It includes monitoring patients,
administering and assisting in personal care and hygiene,
performing housekeeping duties, and advising clients on related
healthcare issues like infant care, hygiene and nutrition.
Sample Career: Caregiver

8. Maternal and Child Care

Specialists in this area provide health service to mothers
(pregnant women) and children. It includes providing information
on reproductive health, family planning and improvement of health
delivery system through advocacy, education and research.

Sample Career: Midwifery

Community Health Educator

Outreach Specialist
9. Mental Healthcare
Those professionals who deals with interpersonal and
intrapersonal relationships and life skills.
Sample Career: Guidance and Counselor
Social Work and Clinical Psychology

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 10. Community Healthcare
People who focus on maintenance, protection and improvement
of the health of all community members.
Sample Career: Rural Sanitary Inspection
Barangay/Community Health Work
11. Health Education
Careers in this area includes assessing individual and
community needs, planning, implementing and evaluating
health programs, promoting and understanding of various
health-related behaviors plus coordinating health education
services.
Sample Career: Education and Research
Community Health Work
12. Occupational Safety
These health workers provide services related to the safety,
health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment.
Sample Career: Health Inspector
Industrial Hygienist
Occupational Health and Safety Technician

MEDICAL AND ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION

Together with
medical professions, there
are various allied health
professions that provides
direct and exceptional
patient care, assist other
healthcare professionals
and comprise the backbone
of our health care
workforce.

Medicine vs. Allied

Healthcare: What is the
difference?

Medical professionals are group of individuals qualified to practice

medicine. On the other hand, allied health professions are lines of work that
still deal with healthcare, but are distinct from medicine.
Allied health professionals are trained healthcare provider practicing
under supervision of a physician or healthcare practitioner. They include
pharmacists, dental hygienists, physical therapists and nurses. They provide

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services and engage in activities which include:
A. Prevention – keep illness or injury from happening.
B. Assessment/Evaluation - appraisal of the condition based on the patient’s
subjective report.
C. Identification/Diagnosis – analysis based on the signs, symptoms and
laboratory findings.
D. Treatment – management and care of a patient/combating of
disease/disorders.
E. Rehabilitation/habilitation – treatment designed to recover from injury,
illness or disease.
F. Advocacy – a method by which a group of health professionals work
together to develop programs.
G. Promotion of health and well-being – the process of enabling people to
increase control over their health and its determinants.
H. Education – the process of sharing and gaining knowledge.
I. Research – diligent inquiry or examination of data, records, and
observations in a search for facts or principles.

Allied Health Professionals that are Present in the Philippines

1. Audiologist – identifies and rehabilitates hearing impairments and

related disorders.
2. Chiropractor – diagnosis and treats neuromuscular disorders, with
emphasis on treatment through manual adjustment and/or
manipulation of the spine.
3. Clinical Psychologist – assesses, diagnoses, treats and helps prevent
mental disorders.
4. Dietitian/Nutritionist – promotes good health through proper diet to
prevent diseases.
5. Emergency Medical Technician – also known as ambulance
technician; responds quickly to any emergency and life-threatening
situation to immediately treat serious injuries, physical or mental
trauma to increase a patient’s chances of survival.
6. Guidance Counselor – assists in career decisions of students.
7. Health Educator – specializes in health education and develops health
knowledge, life skills and well-being of students.
8. Massage Therapist – normalizes tissues by performing scientific
manipulation.
9. Medical Assistant – performs under the direction of physician.
10. Medical Technologist – performs various tasks on body fluids
from simple blood tests to more complex tests.
11. Midwife – helps women maintain healthy pregnancy.

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 12. Nurse - provides care for people who are sick or injured and
assists physicians during examination, treatment and
administers medications.
13. Therapist – uses purposeful activity and interventions to
maximize the independence and health of any client who is
limited by physical injury or illness, cognitive impairment,
psychosocial dysfunction, mental illness or learning disability.
14. Paramedic – gives emergency medical treatment.
15. Pharmacist – prepares and dispenses medication prescribed by
physicians.
16. Radiologic Technologist/Radiographer – performs imaging
procedures such as x-ray, MRI, CT scan.
17. Physical Therapist – treats physical impairments.
18. Speech Language Pathologist – treats patients with speech
defects and disorders.
19. Phlebotomist – performs phlebotomy or drawing blood.
20. Radiation Therapist – administers radiation therapy and
observation of patients during treatment.
21. Respiratory Therapist – promotion of cardiopulmonary health.
22. Social Worker – gives aid to people with social problems.

Other Allied Health Professions Available in other Countries

1. Cardiovascular technologist – helps physicians diagnose patients

with heart disease.
2. Clinical Officer – performs general medical duties like diagnosis and
treatment of disease and injury, recommend and interpret medical tests.
3. Dental Hygienist – specializes in oral hygiene and prevention of oral
disease.
4. Diagnostic Medical Sonographist – uses ultrasonic imaging devices to
diagnose the anatomy of the patient.
5. Kinesiotherapist – develops and monitors the exercise programs to
help patients achieve stronger muscles after an injury or disease.
6. Neurophysiologist – specializes in the diagnosis of disease that affects
the nervous system like epilepsy.
7. Medical Dosimetrist – makes treatment plans for patients by means
of computer and/or manual computation to find out the treatment field
technique that will deliver the prescribed radiation dose and its
limitation.
8. Medical Radiation Scientist – performs complex diagnostic imaging
studies on patients and plans and administers radiation treatments.

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 9. Music Therapist – uses music during the therapeutic relationship in
order to assess the strengths and needs of an individual. The qualified
music therapist provides clients with emotional support for them to
express their feelings through music.

10. Nuclear Medicine Technologist - performs tests for diagnosis

and medical research. They prepare and give small doses of radioactive
drugs (radiopharmaceuticals) to patients, then use high-
level imaging equipment to record images of the radioactive material in
the body.
11. Orthoptist – specializes eye movement disorders and diagnostic
procedures of the eye and visual system.
12. Pedorthist – foot orthotic and orthopedic experts.
13. Perfusionist - operates a heart-lung machine, which is an artificial
blood pump, which propels oxygenated blood to the patient's tissues
while the surgeon operates on the heart.
14. Exercise Physiologist – body of knowledge concerning physiologic,
metabolic and structural responses to short-term and long-term physical
activity.

HEALTH CAREER ORIENTATION PROGRAM

A Health Career Orientation Program is an activity for career

exploration for high school students who want to learn more about
specific health careers. The objectives of a health career orientation are:
• evaluates and assesses personal needs, interests and skills
• provides avenue for career exploration
• familiarizes the duties and responsibilities of health professionals
• broaden awareness on various educational trainings for both academic
and vocational fields
• pursue health career pathways for future education and training

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After our discussion on the health career pathways, could you
choose a career that’s best for you?

Are you ready for a higher task? Goodluck!

Let Us Practice
Activity 1: MY HEALTH CAREER

Direction: A. Using the table below, list down 5 health career pathways that
you might be considering to pursue in the future. Rank them from 1-5
according to your priority.

Health Career Pathways Rank

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B. Based on Activity 1, answer the following questions:

1. In your community, what are the most common health career

pathways you observed?

2. What do you think are the type of health careers that our country
needs? Why?
________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

3. Which allied health career do you think our government should give
much priority? Choose five (5).

4. As a Grade 10 student, why it is important to know the different allied

health careers?

________________________________________________________________

Let Us Practice More

Activity 2: HEALTH CAREER ORIENTATION

Direction: A. Participate in a Health Career Orientation program in your

school/community. Take note of the following as you listen to the guest
speakers.

Questions: 1 2 3
What is the speakers’ career?
Where did the speaker study?
Who introduced the speaker to
this career?
What were the requirements
for the career?
Where did the speaker find
information about the career?
What are the qualities that
made them successful in their
chosen career?
Identify which career you are
interested with.

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B. In a 1 whole sheet of paper, write all the insights/learnings you got from
the health career orientation you attended. Do you think this is important
especially in choosing your future career?
___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

Let Us Remember

1. A career pathway is an organized approach to career planning for

anyone wanting to land a first job or to improve skills for different or
better job opportunities.

2. Health career pathways provide students the opportunity to explore

various profession in the field medical or healthcare courses.

3. Examples of Health Career Pathways

a. Nutrition g. Personal Healthcare
b. Disease Prevention and Control h. Maternal and Child
Care
c. Dental Health i. Mental Healthcare
d. Environmental Healthcare
Management j. Community Healthcare
e. Drug Prevention and Control k. Health Education
f. Emergency Medical Services l. Occupational Safety

4. Together with medical professions, there are various allied health

professions that provides direct and exceptional patient care, assist
other healthcare professionals and comprise the backbone of our health
care workforce.

Allied Health Professionals that are Present in the Philippines

a. Audiologist l. Nurse
b. Chiropractor m. Occupational Therapist
c. Clinical Psychologist n. Paramedic
d. Dietitian/Nutritionist o. Pharmacist
e. Emergency Medical Technician p. Radiologist Technologist
f. Guidance Counselor q. Physical Therapist

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 g. Health Educator r. Speech Language Pathologist
h. Massage Therapist s. Phlebotomist
i. Medical Assistant t. Radiation Therapist
j. Medical Technologist u. Respiratory Therapist
k. Midwife v. Social Worker

Other Allied Health Professions Available in other Countries

a. Cardiovascular technologist h. Medical Radiation Scientist
b. Clinical Officer i. Music Therapist
c. Dental Hygienist j. Nuclear Medicine Technologist
d. Diagnostic Medical Sonographist k. Orthoptist
e. Kinesiotherapist l. Pedorthist
f. Neurophysiologist m. Perfusionist
g. Medical Dosimetrist n. Exercise Physiologist

5. A Health Career Orientation Program is an activity for career

exploration for high school students who want to learn more about
specific health careers. It aims to:
• evaluate and assess personal needs, interests and skills
• provide avenue for career exploration
• familiarize the duties and responsibilities of health professionals
• broaden awareness on various educational trainings for both academic
and vocational fields
• pursue health career pathways for future education and training

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 Let Us Assess
MATCHING TYPE

Direction: Match column A – Health Career Pathway with column B –

Examples of Career. Write the letter of the correct answer.

Column A Column B

______1. Personal Healthcare a. Community Health Worker

______2. Health Education b. Sanitary Inspector

______3. Community Health c. Caregiver

______4. Maternal and childcare d. Midwife

______5. Nutrition e. Dental Hygienist

______6. Emergency Medical Service f. Social Work

______7. Mental Health g. Dietitian

______8. Drug Prevention and Control h. Drug Enforcer

______9. Dental Health i. Paramedics

______10. Occupational Safety j. Industrial Hygienist

Let Us Enhance
Career Guidance

1. Research other allied healthcare professions.

2. Select only one and be ready for a career presentation or parade.
3. Wear appropriate attire.
4. Introduce yourself by giving a short description of your specialization.

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 Let Us Reflect

Today you have learned and explored the different health career
pathways. Your knowledge will serve as your guide in choosing a health
career in the future. Be sure that your interest and abilities will suit to your
choice for you to be successful someday and become a productive member of
your community. Hopefully you will also share your learnings with others.
Congratulations! You have accomplished this module and you did a
great job! I hope you enjoy answering this module and may you continue to
love learning. Be safe always! God Bless

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Let Us Assess (Matching Type)
1. C 4. D 7. F 10. J
2. A 5. G 8. H
3. B 6. I. 9. E
Let Us Practice More
Activity 2 A and B (Answer may vary)
Let Us Practice:
Activity 1 A and B (Answer may vary)
Let Us Try
1. Nutrition 2. Dental Health 3. Emergency Medical Services
4. Disease Prevention and Control 5. Drug Prevention and Control
Guide Question:
1. It is about Health Career Pathways.
2. Answer may vary.
Answer Key
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Courtesy of Angelita Pascua-Johnson and Cristina Hirro

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